CRICKET Tourists “Fighting Fit, Confident"

Press, Volume CII, Issue 30092, 28 March 1963, Page 3

CRICKET Tourists “Fighting Fit, Confident"

(NX Pres* Association—Copyright) KINGSTON, March 27. The West Indies cricket team to tour England assembled in Kingston, Jamaica, today to sail for Southampton in the liner, Golfito, on Thursday, the Associated Press reported.

The team manager, Mr Berkley Gaston, said his men were fighting fit and would do well. The assistant manager, Mr Harold Burnett, stated: “No team in the world can boast as varied an attack as this West Indies side. “We have two really fast and hostile bowlers in Wesley Hall and Griffith. King, who is able to move the ball off the seam, should dp well in English conditions. ■Then there is Lance Gitotoe, the best off-spinner in the world today, and Valentine, a tried and proven leftarm spinner.” Mr Burnett said there were other bowlers, including Frank Worrell, the captain. “If this team cannot get England out, no other team in the world can,” he said. “Remember, it is bowlers who win matches.” Wprrell will fly to England while his team travels by ship, Reuter said. “I’m not a good sailor,” he explained.

spent five months preparing for it. . The team is:—F. Worrell (captain), D. Allan, B. Butcher, J. Carew, I* Gattos, C. Griffith, W. Hall, C. Hunte, R. Kanhai, L. King, E. McMorris, D. Murray, S. Nurse, W. Rodriguez. G. Sobers, J. Solomon, A. Valentine.

Worrell, now 39, said he regarded the tour as a “tremendous challenge”—he had