Barbados is teeming with tourists because, for English fans, who travel the globe in such numbers, this sits on the bucket list podium with the festive double of Melbourne and Sydney in the Ashes and a New Year’s Test in Cape Town (honourable mention to Galle).
There were a few thousand English fans in Antigua — reopening the complex debate about why so few West Indians go to Test cricket — but estimates suggest that twice as many are in town now. The Barbados government announced yesterday that Kensington Oval will be at full capacity for the first time since Covid-19. Let the party commence.
