Date-stamped : 02 Jul95 - 14:26
Tour match: WARWICKSHIRE v WEST INDIES
Played at Birmingham, 7-9 August 1957

Warwickshire, the only county to beat the West  Indies  in  1950,
were  making  a great effort to repeat that performance when rain
ruined the final stages by preventing play on  the last  day.   A
bold innings of 98 by Horner, who hit eleven 4s gave Warwickshire
a fine start, but they broke down before Ramadhin, the last seven
wickets  falling  for 19 runs. Rohan Kanhai also showed the value
of enterprising methods and with one 6 and eleven 4s as his chief
strokes  he  made  74  out  of 112 in eighty-five minutes. On the
second morning,  Gilchrist, with  24446,  punished  his   fellow-
countryman  Griffiths for 20 off five consecutive balls, but Hol-
lies bowled his leg-breaks with such  effect  that  West  Indies`
lead  was confined to 28. Then Stewart and Smith by skillful bat-
ting and quick running between the wickets made a valuable  third
wicket stand of 82 for the county, but Ramadhin trapped both. The
game had reached an intriguing position by Thursday evening  when
the weather intervened.

Source: Wisden 1958.
<END> Contributed by J.R.F.Evans (en92jrfe@exeter.ac.uk)