West Indies tour match arrangements

18 November 2008

WICB has confirmed the appointment of Tour Operators and Ticket Sales Agents for England's 2009 tour to the Caribbean - for full details on the WICB website click here

The West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) today provided further information regarding the non-international matches for England's tour of the West Indies in 2009.

England will begin their tour of the West Indies with two three-day matches at Warner Park in St Kitts

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WICB has switched England's warm-up matches at the start of the tour from Barbados to St Kitts where two three-day fixtures will be played at Warner Park Stadium, a practice match against a St Kitts & Nevis Invitation XI followed by a first-class fixture against West Indies A.

The two-day match in Barbados between the second and third Tests will be played against a BCA President’s XI (venue to be confirmed).

The 50-over practice match in Trinidad before the start of the international one-day programme will be played against WIPA President’s Select (venue to be confirmed).

The updated tour schedule is as follows:

England tour of the West Indies 2009

Jan 21: England team arrives, St Kitts

Jan 25-27: Three-day match v St Kitts & Nevis Invitation XI, Warner Park, St Kitts

Jan 29-31: Three-day first-class match v West Indies A, Warner Park, St Kitts

Feb 4-8: First Test, Sabina Park, Jamaica

Feb 13-17: Second Test, Sir Viv Richards Stadium, Antigua

Feb 21-22: Two-day match v BCA President’s XI, Barbados

Feb 26-March 2: Third Test, Kensington Oval, Barbados

March 6-10: Fourth Test, Queen’s Park Oval, Trinidad

March 14: One-day match v WIPA President’s Select, Trinidad

March 15: Twenty20 international, Queen’s Park Oval, Trinidad

March 20: First one-day international, Providence, Guyana

March 22: Second one-day international, Providence, Guyana

March 27: Third one-day international, Kensington Oval, Barbados

March 29: Fourth one-day international, Kensington Oval, Barbados

April 3: Fifth one-day international, Beausejour Stadium, St Lucia - day/night

April 4: England team departs for UK

Your comments

We've had a holiday booked in Barbados for MONTHS. It's only now the details of ticketing for the Test Matches have been announced. Lo and behold - they can only be bought through 3 separate agents who are all selling flight/hotel/ticket packages and/or 5-day passes!. The WICB say that tickets will be available at the grounds on each day, subject to availability. Does anyone have any experience or ideas on whether it is likely that day-tickets are likely to be still available at the ground on the day?
It seems that if you book early to get a decent flight and hotel price you can't get tickets, and if you wait for the tickets you stand little or no chance of getting any independent travel or hotel rooms.
Is anyone else getting fed up with the way cricket followers are treated?

ecb.co.uk: We've published details on the site as soon as they were made available by WICB. If you have further queries re the ticketing process then we do suggest you contact them direct.

David Cooke on 07/01/09

why are there so many double playing grounds like having 2 seperate ODI's at Barbados and 2 seperate matches in Trinidad etc couldnt they have more stadiums. In addition the dates are so tight its ubelievealble. Could someone help me out here to explain this. Thanks

Fahad Siddiqui on 24/12/08