l and Curtly Ambrose took all ten wickets between them. The West Indies racked up 448-9 despite no batsman reaching a century. England had a chance to get back into the match, but from 334-7, the unheralded batting of Marshall (72) and Ambrose (43*) took the tourists into a position of dominance.The West Indian surge for victory was frustrated by the weather, which periodically interrupted the match throughout, and by an obdurate partnership of 161 between Gooch (146) and Gower (88*).Before the Second Test, Gatting was sacked for an alleged off-field indiscretion with a barmaid. The tabloid media made allegations of "shenanigans" in his room; he "admitted taking ... [her] into his room but  denied anything untoward had happened".[21] During the previous winter, Gatting had been involved in a notorious on-field altercation with umpire Shakoor Rana in Pakistan that snowballed into a diplomatic disaster with the third day of the second test in Faisalabad being abandoned and accusations 