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English cricket team in the West Indies in 2003–04

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Dates
  
1 March – 5 May 2004

Player of the series
  
Stephen Harmison

Captains
  
Michael Vaughan

Result
  
England won the 4-match series 3–0

Most runs
  
Butcher 296Thorpe 274Vaughan 245

Most wickets
  
Harmison 23Hoggard 13Flintoff 11

The England cricket team toured West Indies from 1 March to 5 May 2004 as part of the 2003–04 West Indian cricket season. The tour included four Tests and seven One Day Internationals.

Contents

1st Test 11 March – 15 March

Ramnaresh Sarwan recorded a pair in this test.

2nd Test 19 March – 23 March

The second test win meant that England retained the Wisden Trophy.

3rd Test 1 April – 3 April

Matthew Hoggard claimed a hat-trick in the West Indies 2nd innings. Hoggard got Ramnaresh Sarwan (caught), Shivnarine Chanderpaul (lbw) and Ryan Hinds (caught) in successive deliveries. This was the 33rd hat-trick in test cricket and the 10th hat-trick for an English man.

4th Test 10 April – 14 April

Brian Lara's 400 not out is the highest score in Test cricket. His 400 consisted of 582 balls and is the fifth longest innings in Test cricket lasting 778 minutes (12 hours 58 minutes). He hit 43 fours and 4 sixes.

Records

  • West Indies 1st test 2nd innings of 47 all out is the lowest innings scored by the West Indies.
  • Stephen Harmison claimed his best bowling figures of 7/12 in the 2nd innings of the 1st test. It is also the best bowling figures in Sabina Park with figures of 12.3–8–12–7.
  • On the 3rd Test England secured their first series win against the West Indies in the Caribbean since 1968.
  • Brian Lara 400 not out is the highest score by any batsmen in test cricket.
  • Brian Lara is the 11th batsmen to hold the world record for the highest score in Test cricket and is the only person ever in Test cricket to regain the world record.
  • Brian Lara equaled Don Bradman's record of two treble centuries.
  • Brian Lara also scored his 375 (then world record) total in Antigua against England 10 years previously.
  • Graham Thorpe was also present in Lara's 375 innings 10 years previously.
  • Brian Lara and Ridley Jacobs 282 unbroken partnership is a West Indian partnership record for the 6th wicket.
  • West Indies 751/5 is the 7th highest innings total in Test cricket and 2nd highest innings total for West Indies.

    • References

    English cricket team in the West Indies in 2003–04 Wikipedia
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