Over the course of the next few years England did more than that, beating Zimbabwe and West Indies the following summer - a springboard to a remarkable winter in 2000-01, when both Pakistan and Sri Lanka were put to the sword.
England play a four-Test series in the West Indies, beginning in Jamaica on 4 February, before a home series - against Sri Lanka or West Indies - and then the Ashes later in the summer.
Those dates would clash with the first two Tests of the English summer - whether against West Indies or Sri Lanka.
The 57-cap international joins Wales captain Craig Bellamy on the doubtful list for Wales' summer games, while West Ham defender Danny Gabbidon is a long-term absentee.
England sealed their second whitewash of the summer with a 10-wicket win over the West Indies at The Oval.
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The standout event of the summer ahead is the World Twenty20 - in the West Indies - while England will also travel to Australia later in the year hoping to once again retain the Ashes.
The England and Wales Cricket Board expects demand to increase as the new season approaches, which is good news for counties who received smaller pay-outs last summer after Tests against Zimbabwe and the West Indies finished inside five days.
In Palm Beach Gardens, Florida, Kahtoya Wesley, 20, has had difficulty finding a job, but she has a better chance of finding work now because she has joined the Summer Youth Employment Program, according to WPBF-TV in West Palm Beach.
The 31-year-old Australia international defender is a free agent after his West Ham deal expired this summer.
West Indies left-hander Shiv Chanderpaul, who was virtually immovable against England earlier in the summer, made the most of that escape by reaching 50 off 60 balls, with the highlights big sixes off Tremlett over mid-wicket and a swept maximum off Sean Ervine.
In the summer of 1978, she attempted the 103-mile journey from Cuba to Key West, Florida.
Maybe the biggest news about Thor is this: Thompson plans to go out West this summer with Angela, his wife of 37 years, to see the Rockies and the Grand Canyon--in an Airstream.
So too is the hope that the North-East Passage above Russia, also known as the Northern Sea Route (NSR), as well as the North-West Passage from the Atlantic over the top of North America, will become navigable for several months each summer.
Second row Wentzel joined the West Yorkshire club in the summer from Leicester Tigers and was given the captain's armband after impressing in pre-season.
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