West Indies tour match arrangements

18 November 2008

WICB has confirmed the appointment of Tour Operators and Ticket Sales Agents for England's 2009 tour to the Caribbean - for full details on the WICB website click here

The West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) today provided further information regarding the non-international matches for England's tour of the West Indies in 2009.

England will begin their tour of the West Indies with two three-day matches at Warner Park in St Kitts

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WICB has switched England's warm-up matches at the start of the tour from Barbados to St Kitts where two three-day fixtures will be played at Warner Park Stadium, a practice match against a St Kitts & Nevis Invitation XI followed by a first-class fixture against West Indies A.

The two-day match in Barbados between the second and third Tests will be played against a BCA President’s XI (venue to be confirmed).

The 50-over practice match in Trinidad before the start of the international one-day programme will be played against WIPA President’s Select (venue to be confirmed).

The updated tour schedule is as follows:

England tour of the West Indies 2009

Jan 21: England team arrives, St Kitts

Jan 25-27: Three-day match v St Kitts & Nevis Invitation XI, Warner Park, St Kitts

Jan 29-31: Three-day first-class match v West Indies A, Warner Park, St Kitts

Feb 4-8: First Test, Sabina Park, Jamaica

Feb 13-17: Second Test, Sir Viv Richards Stadium, Antigua

Feb 21-22: Two-day match v BCA President’s XI, Barbados

Feb 26-March 2: Third Test, Kensington Oval, Barbados

March 6-10: Fourth Test, Queen’s Park Oval, Trinidad

March 14: One-day match v WIPA President’s Select, Trinidad

March 15: Twenty20 international, Queen’s Park Oval, Trinidad

March 20: First one-day international, Providence, Guyana

March 22: Second one-day international, Providence, Guyana

March 27: Third one-day international, Kensington Oval, Barbados

March 29: Fourth one-day international, Kensington Oval, Barbados

April 3: Fifth one-day international, Beausejour Stadium, St Lucia - day/night

April 4: England team departs for UK

Your comments

why are there so many double playing grounds like having 2 seperate ODI's at Barbados and 2 seperate matches in Trinidad etc couldnt they have more stadiums. In addition the dates are so tight its ubelievealble. Could someone help me out here to explain this. Thanks

Fahad Siddiqui on 24/12/08

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