English cricket team in the West Indies in 1985–86

West Indies won the series 3-1.

1st ODI

18 February 1986 Scorecard

England  145/8 (46 overs)	v	West Indies 146/4 (43.5 overs)
GA Gooch 36 (72) MD Marshall 4/23 (10 overs)		CG Greenidge 45 (80) GA Gooch 1/0 (2 overs)

West Indies won by 6 wickets Sabina Park, Kingston, Jamaica Umpires: DM Archer and AJ Gaynor Player of the match: MD Marshall (WIN)

• West Indies won the toss and elected to field.
• The match was reduced to 46 overs per side.
• LB Taylor and JG Thomas (both ENG) and BP Patterson (WIN) made their ODI debuts.

2nd ODI

4 March 1986 Scorecard

West Indies  229/3 (37 overs)	v	England 230/5 (37 overs)
IVA Richards 82 (39) NA Foster 1/42 (10 overs)		GA Gooch 129* (118) J Garner 3/62 (9 overs)

England won by 5 wickets Queen's Park Oval, Port of Spain, Trinidad Umpires: CE Cumberbatch and S Mohammed Player of the match: GA Gooch (ENG)

• England won the toss and elected to field.
• The match was reduced to 37 overs per side.
• WN Slack and DM Smith (both ENG), and CA Best (WIN) made their ODI debuts.

3rd ODI

19 March 1986 Scorecard

West Indies  249/7 (46 overs)	v	England 114 (39 overs)
RB Richardson 62 (74) IVA Richards 62 (53) NA Foster 3/39 (9 overs)		RT Robinson 23 (42) MD Marshall 3/14 (6 overs)

West Indies won by 135 runs Kensington Oval, Bridgetown, Barbados Umpires: DM Archer and LH Barker Player of the match: IVA Richards (WIN)

• England won the toss and elected to field.
• The match was reduced to 46 overs per side.

4th ODI

31 March 1986 Scorecard

England  165/9 (47 overs)	v	West Indies 166/2 (38.2 overs)
RT Robinson 55 (107) MD Marshall 4/37 (9 overs)		DL Haynes 77* (114) NA Foster 1/27 (6 overs)

West Indies won by 8 wickets Queen's Park Oval, Port of Spain, Trinidad Umpires: CE Cumberbatch and S Mohammed Player of the match: J Garner (WIN)

• West Indies won the toss and elected to field.
• The match was reduced to 47 overs per side.

England had just beaten Australia 3-1 in the 1985 Ashes.

The tour began poorly for England, losing by 7 wickets to the Windward Islands despite a 77 from Mike Gatting and five wickets from Phil Edmonds.[2] They almost lost their next game, against Leeward Islands - after batting well in the first innings (Gatting, Gooch, Robinson and Lamb all scoring half centuries) they collapsed in the second and were lucky to escape with a draw.,[3]

Things improved when they beat Jamaica, chiefly due to the batting of Gatting and Lamb and the bowling of Edmonds.[4]

Gatting had been England's in form batsman of the tour, but in the first one-day game his nose was broken. England collapsed and the West Indies won easily.[5]

Gatting was unable to play in the first test, which the West Indies won easily. Richard Ellison took a five wicket haul and Peter Willey scored a second innings 71.[6]

England's next game, against Trinidad and Tobago, was a draw.[7]

They bounced back to win their next game, a one-day international against the West Indies due to a century from Graham Gooch.[8]

For the second test England decided to go with four specialist batsmen and lost the game.[9]

The tour went downhill even further when they lost to Barbados by three wickets.[10]

The West Indies easily won the next one day international.[11] They won the 3rd test by an innings and 30 runs.[12] Then they won the 4th ODI by eight wickets.[13]

The West Indies won the 4th test by ten wickets.[14] They won the 5th handsomely as well.[15]

• Edmonds, Frances (1986). Another Bloody Tour: England in the West Indies. The Kingswood Press. p. 162. ISBN 978-0434980932. (by the wife of spin-bowler Phil Edmonds)