The West Indies cricket team toured England in 1933, playing three Test matches, losing two of them and drawing the other. In all, the side played 30 first-class matches, winning only five and losing nine.
The batting was led by George Headley, who scored almost twice as many runs as the next highest aggregate and averaged 66 runs per innings (the next best was 39). The bowling was spearheaded by the pace of Manny Martindale, from Barbados, who took 14 wickets in the Tests and 103 on the tour. 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.
The team was captained by the former Cambridge University blue Jackie Grant, who had been captain on the tour of Australia in 1930-31.
The full team was:
In addition to the regular touring party, Learie Constantine, who was playing Lancashire League cricket and not available for the full tour, played in one Test and four other first-class matches, and George Francis, also engaged in League cricket, played in the first Test at Lord's, but was not called on for any other first-class matches. Rolph Grant, brother of the captain and an undergraduate at Cambridge University, played in the match against the university and Clifford Inniss, an undergraduate at Oxford, played in the match against Oxford University and in one other first-class match against MCC.