By contrast, the English team had suffered a run of bad performances spanning several years, winning only seven of their previous 52 Tests.  The England side had most recently toured Australia, drawing the Bicentennial Test and losing the only One Day International played, and New Zealand, drawing all three Test matches and sharing the ODIs 2-2.[9] Before this, they had endured a "hostile" and highly controversial tour of Pakistan,[10] during which an argument between captain Mike Gatting and umpire Shakoor Rana had led to a diplomatic incident.[11] The three match series was lost 1-0, but the "teasing, taunting ... bemusing"[12] performance of leg-spinner Abdul Qadir, who took 30 wickets in three Tests,[11] was unlikely to be repeated, given that the West Indies' only specialist spinner was Roger Harper, an off-break bowler. Despite having lost 5–0 to the West Indies in each of the two most recent series, England had grounds for optimism leading up to the Test series: the West Indian