 ageing. The experienced batsmen Viv Richards (the captain), Gordon Greenidge, Jeff Dujon, and Desmond Haynes were all coming to the end of their careers, and bowlers Michael Holding and Joel Garner had recently retired. As a result, the squad arrived with an unusually inexperienced group of pace bowlers.  Supporting Malcolm Marshall, a veteran of 53 Tests, were relative newcomers Courtney Walsh (20 Tests), Patrick Patterson (11), Winston Benjamin (4), Curtly Ambrose (3) and Ian Bishop (0).[4]The West Indies' most recent series had been a hard-fought 1–1 draw at home against Pakistan,[5] but their previous two Test series against England had both resulted in 5–0 victories. The first of these, in England in 1984,[6] was the first whitewash England had suffered since the 1920–21 season when England toured Australia,[7] while the second occurred in the Caribbean in 1985–86. These two one-sided victories by the West Indies became known as "blackwashes".[8]English cricket team[සංස්කරණය]