By Nasser Hussain For The Daily Mail and David Lloyd For The Daily Mail
Published: 22:57 GMT, 21 January 2019 | Updated: 23:02 GMT, 21 January 2019
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England will begin their three-Test series against West Indies in Barbados on January 23 as Joe Root's side look to continue recent good form.
From impromptu game of tennis that had a painful end for Nasser Hussain in 1990 to unplayable pitches, Sportsmail's experts share their memories of the Caribbean.
1990: WINDIES WON 2-1
I had just come out of Durham University and having been brought up on a diet of 5-0 ‘blackwashes’. I found myself as part of Graham Gooch’s new England suddenly fielding at short leg watching Haynes, Greenidge and Richards come out to bat.
It was like ‘really, am I here?’ We came so close to winning the series. I ended up batting in the last two Tests with a broken wrist I suffered playing tennis.
Nasser, Devon Malcolm and Angus Fraser enjoy England's first-Test victory in 1990
1994: WINDIES WON 3-1
I spent the whole series on the sidelines and I was horribly out of nick but after we were bowled out for 46 in Trinidad I thought I might get a game. That day I remember walking round the ground to get a roti (type of flatbread) when we started our innings and by the time I got back we were 21 for four!
Then my old mate Mike Atherton told me they were sticking with the same batting line-up in Barbados and it was the only time in my life I lost it with him. But Athers got it right — we won in Barbados and Alec Stewart made two magnificent centuries.
Alec Stewart and Hussain play an improvised game of tennis during the 1990 tour
1998: WINDIES 3-1
Bit of a chaotic feel to the whole tour. The Jamaican pitch looked like corrugated iron. There was huge panic in our dressing room as
