The West Indies cricket team toured England in 1933, playing three Test matches, losing two of them and drawing the other.
He cut Wally Hammond's chin open at Old Trafford and, in partnership with Learie Constantine in this match, used the same bodyline tactics England had used the previous winter against Australia.
Constantine, Francis, Griffith, Hoad, Martin and Roach had been members of the 1928 West Indies side which toured England and were the first to play Test cricket.
[2] Achong, Barrow, Da Costa and Headley had made their Test debuts in the 1929–30 season against the England team.
Martindale and Constantine used the bodyline "leg-theory" style of bowling fast and short to a packed leg-side field, and England lost four wickets for 134, including Hammond, who returned to bat after having his chin split open by a short-pitched ball.
When West Indies batted a second time, England fast bowler Edward Clark also bowled leg-theory, but with little success.
James Langridge, in his first Test, took seven wickets for 56, but Roach made 64 and Constantine the same number, and the match was left drawn when the West Indies second innings ended.
When West Indies batted, only debutant Sealey, with 29, made much of the bowling of Clark, Nichols and another player new to Test cricket, Charles Marriott.