The summer when four captains could not stop another rout by West Indies

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Richard Edwards looks back at a humiliating summer when England were hit by controversy and the mighty tourists

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Our series on major events that gripped the cricket world continues with a Test series recalled for all the wrong reasons
As England arrived at Nottingham in the first week of June 1988, Mike Gatting was a man under pressure. From a cricket perspective, England hadn’t won a match since the Boxing Day Test of 1986, a run of 14 matches that included home and away series losses to Pakistan.
The latter, infamously, involved the England captain becoming embroiled in...

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