West Indies were only beaten twice on the tour, by Essex in a 50-over warm-up match, and by England in the Second ODI, both at the end of May.

Thereafter, they were unbeaten until the tour ended in August Gordon Greenidge, Desmond Haynes, Faoud Bacchus, Viv Richards (vice captain), Clive Lloyd (captain), Derick Parry, Alvin Kallicharan, Lawrence Rowe, Collis King, Deryck Murray, David Murray, Andy Roberts, Michael Holding, Joel Garner, Malcolm Marshall, Colin Croft.

When Lawrence Rowe dropped out of the tour through injury, Larry Gomes was invited to replace him but declined as he had not played for two months.

[2] The tour began with the traditional fixture against Lavinia, Duchess of Norfolk's XI at Arundel Castle on 8 May 1980.

[5] The Second ODI was played the following day, 30 May, at Lord's, with Viv Richards standing in as captain for Clive Lloyd.

Thanks to a century opening stand by Peter Willey (56) and Geoffrey Boycott (70), and 42 not out from Ian Botham, England reached their target off the third ball of the final over to win by 3 wickets.

Honours were fairly even between the West Indies pace bowling attack (Andy Roberts, Joel Garner, Michael Holding and Malcolm Marshall) and England's pace attack (Bob Willis, who took 9 wickets, supported by John Lever and Ian Botham) and the batsmen.

West Indies replied with a mammoth 518, including a stand of 223 for the second wicket between Haynes (184) and Viv Richards (145).

The first was drawn, and West Indies won the second on a faster run rate, with Faoud Bacchus reaching 163.

Gooch top-scored on 83; Boycott (53) and Brian Rose (50) also reached half-centuries, and Mike Gatting just missed out on 48.

England were bowled out for 143 on the second day, with only two batsmen scoring more than 14 runs – captain Ian Botham (37) and wicketkeeper David Bairstow (40), who had replaced the regular keeper in the first four Tests, Alan Knott.

The West Indian team finished its tour with a third match against Essex, at Stamford Bridge on 14 August.