ction. Traditionally, captains of international teams are not changed frequently - for example, between 1977 and 1988 (comprising 104 Test matches), only seven different men captained England, yet there were four captains in just a few weeks in the summer of 1988.CaptainedNameAgeCountyTests as captainFirst TestMike Gatting31Middlesex23Second TestThird TestJohn Emburey36Middlesex2Fourth TestChris Cowdrey30Kent1Fifth TestGraham Gooch35Essex34The many changes of captain over the summer reflected uncertainty in the English cricketing establishment as to how to respond to the drubbing the team was receiving from the West Indies; the selectors "did not seem to know where to turn, either for a new captain or for a settled team".[14]The England team had not suffered such uncertainty since the West Indies tour of England in 1966, where the selectors chose 23 different players and three different captains (Colin Cowdrey, M. J. K. Smith a