West Indian cricket team in England in 1928 matches, which had hitherto been restricted to sides from England, Australia and South Africa. The West Indian cricket tour of England in 1928 was the first of these new Test-playing ventures, and it was backed heavily by the cricket establishment because of the success of the 1923 West Indian cricket team in England, when the side won 12 matches. The West Indies team had 17 members, four each from Jamaica, Trinidad (now Trinidad and Tobago) and British Guiana (now Guyana) and five from Barbados. The side was captained by Karl Nunes, who had been vice-captain of the 1923 touring side.
Tony Greig journey both on and off the field." In 1999 Greig was involved in a controversy when, in a match at the North Sydney Oval, the camera zoomed onto a white, Caucasian man and an Asian woman in a marriage ceremony at a nearby church. Greig made a comment implying the woman shown was a mail order bride: "Do you think she’s been flown in?". He later said that the comment was made "off microphone and not intended for broadcast". He joined the Indian Cricket League as an Executive Board Member, but the league ultimately ceased with the growing popularity of