In the match played at The Oval ground of the Test series, these three great cricketers said goodbye to their Test career.
Cricket is a game of great uncertainties. There are also many coincidences in this. Like two players start their international career in the same match and later both are included in the legends of this game. In a match between England and West Indies, more than 10 players had made their Test debut. But the amazing thing is that in a test match, three big cricket legends together say goodbye to their careers. And all those three are different from each other. That is, a wicketkeeper, a bowler and a batsman. On this day i.e. 12th August, this rare moment also came on the land of England when three stalwarts together took retirement from Test cricket.
Actually, the fifth Test of the series was played between England and West Indies in the year 1991 from 8 to 12 August at the Oval ground. This was the last Test match of West Indies’ veteran wicketkeeper Jeff Dujon, fast bowler Malcolm Marshall and Viv Richards, who were participating in it. Jeff ended his career with 272 wickets, while Marshall took 376 wickets. At the same time, Richards took the Test batting average to more than 50. But in the last Test of these three giants, only the host England team got the victory, due to which the series ended in a draw.
Here is the result of the match
England made a big score of 419 runs while batting first in this match. In this, Robin Smith scored 109, captain Graham Gooch contributed 60 and H. Maurice contributed 44 runs. Chris Lewis scored an unbeaten 47. Wicketkeeper batsmen Elk Stewart and Ian Botham scored 31-31 runs. Curtly Ambrose and Courtney Walsh took three wickets each for the Windies. At the same time, West Indies scored 176 runs in their first innings.
Desmond Haynes scored an unbeaten 75. Apart from him, Clayton Lambert scored 39 runs. Phil Tufnell took 6 wickets for England. West Indies scored 375 runs while playing follow-on. This time Richie Richardson scored a brilliant century of 121 runs, captain Viv Richards scored 60 and Carl Hooper scored 54. 43 runs by Desmond Haynes. David Lawrence took five wickets for England. England got a target of 143 runs to win, which they achieved by losing 5 wickets.
