Barbados v Chelsea

[fredfertang]

In the 1960s, the Blues won 6-0 and future Test cricketer Keith Boyce played in goal for Barbados - can anyone tell me when the game was played?

 

[Jonty]

In the 1960s.

 

[fredfertang]

Walked right into that one didn't I?

Was hoping to tie it down to the actual date of the game tbh

 

[BlueBeard]

Only reference to this game I could find...

Barbados 0 Chelsea 7 (Dennis Brown 3, Eddie McCreadie 2, Frank Upton 2)

21 May 1964, Bridgetown

Part of a West Indies tour, two matches in Barbados, two in Trinidad, five in Jamaica, and two in Haiti.

 

[fredfertang]

That's interesting - the few references I found to it in cricket books referred to it being 6-0 - thanks a lot for that

Just out of interest over what period of time did they play those 11 games?

 

[BlueBeard]

17 days, apparently. Not sure what format these matches took, whether they were the full 90 minutes, 45 minutes, or even 6 or 7 a-side! I got the info from Ron Hockings' "Ninety Years Of The Blues", a fantastic statistical history of Chelsea.

21.05.64 - Chelsea 7 Barbados 0 - Bridgetown - (Brown 3, McCreadie 2, Upton 2)

23.05.64 - Chelsea 1 Wolves 3 - Bridgetown - (Bridges)

26.05.64 - Chelsea 5 Trinidad 0 - Port Of Spain - (Brown 3, Venables, Tambling)

27.05.64 - Chelsea 3 Wolves 2 - Port Of Spain - (McCreadie, Bridges, Venables (pen))

29.05.64 - Chelsea 2 Wolves 4 - Kingston - (Tambling, Bridges)

31.05.64 - Chelsea 15 St. James 0 - Montego Bay - (Tambling 5, Bridges 3, McCreadie 3, Hinton 2, Brown, Venables)

02.06.64 - Chelsea 3 Wolves 0 - Kingston - (McCreadie, Hollins, Tambling)

03.06.64 - Chelsea 12 St. James 1 - Montego Bay - (Tambling 5, McCreadie 3, Hinton 2, Brown 2)

04.06.64 - Chelsea 4 Jamaica XI 1 - Kingston - (Tambling 2, Brown, McCreadie)

06.06.64 - Chelsea 2 Wolves 0 - Port au Prince - (Tambling, Venables)

07.06.64 - Chelsea 1 Haiti 2 - Port au Prince - (Venables (pen), ?) abandoned due to tropical rainstorm

Eddie McCreadie with 11 goals!!!

 

[Peckham Blue]

That's interesting - the few references I found to it in cricket books referred to it being 6-0 - thanks a lot for that

Just out of interest over what period of time did they play those 11 games?

90 minutes each.

Sorry, I'll f**k off now.

 

[fredfertang]

 

[PloKoon13]

Haha if there's any way to make a Caribbean tour less glamorous it's surely to play Wolves five times in two-and-a-half weeks!

 

[MelbourneBlue]

Great information all this.  I never knew about this tour.  Dennis Brown is the same name as a popular Reggae singer who had money in his pocket but just couldn't get no love  .