st Test[සංස්කරණය]සැකිල්ල:Test matchMike Gatting was the incumbent England captain for the First Test, at Trent Bridge.  The result was a draw, with Graham Gooch and David Gower helping England to save the game from a position of weakness, after conceding a sizeable first-innings lead to the West Indies.England won the toss and declined from 125–0 to 245 all out, the last five wickets tumbling for just 22 runs. Malcolm Marshall 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 indiscret