He continued to prosper, becoming captain in for the 1969-70 winter series against Australia, masterminding a 4-0 whitewash.
Having made 173 runs in the first three innings during the winter series, the left-hander has scored just 13 in the last two Tests and here he sliced rather tamely to gully.
The winter Ashes series and the World Cup then follow and that is the reason for giving Strauss this breathing space - not because he needs a rest now but because he and the selectors believe it will benefit him later in the year.
The question for the England management is simple: is it worth Flintoff risking missing this winter's series in South Africa and the Ashes that follow in order to rattle out a few West Indian batsman this summer?
Two years ago he played through the summer series against India with a hernia, failed to recover and ended up missing the entire Ashes series that winter.
"The big thing about the guys down there is the excitement that goes along in the stadium, " said Mets outfielder Marlon Byrd, who played in the Caribbean Series this winter.
He is convinced that opener Denly should have been playing in England's winter one-day series - although he has been named in England's provisional 30-man squad for this summer's World Twenty20 tournament.
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Late in the previous winter, he ran a series of rebate deals in small markets across northern Minnesota and Wisconsin.
Last winter I also took a series of indoor lessons at Golftec.
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The storm, which began in Montana before moving east, follows a series of heavy winter snowstorms that have dropped double-digit snowfalls in the Midwest.
The same squad will contest the one-day series in India this winter.
Trescothick, who was dismissed for 18 while batting for Somerset against Derbyshire on Wednesday, has twice had to leave England tours because of his illness, most recently ahead of the Ashes series in Australia last winter.
Any result other than a win in the penultimate match in Bridgetown will give West Indies the series - and complete a miserable winter's work for Strauss's men.
It was a jubilant finale to a long winter for England and their 3-2 series win provided consolation for Test and one-day series defeats in India before Christmas and a 1-0 reverse in the Test series in the Caribbean.
But Strauss, named England's man of the series after scoring 317 runs at an average in excess of 63, added that such a mentally taxing series could be good preparation for the winter's Ashes tour of Australia.
Australia came close to losing their number one ranking in Tests after series defeats by India and South Africa over the winter.
Cricket Australia has been forced to issue a new zero tolerance policy towards racism in the stands, an edict implemented in September after a series of incidents involving South Africa and Sri Lanka last winter.
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Broad, though, rejected the suggestion that England's heavy winter schedule in Australia before the World Cup, which featured a five-Test Ashes series, seven one-day internationals and two Twenty20 games over a three-month period, was to blame for their injury problems.
The series was first announced last September as part of the BBC's 2012 autumn and winter season.
Marshall's efforts to secure a home-and-home series with either or both have met with such futility that a state senator from Wichita this winter introduced a bill that would require the state's three Division I schools to play each other.
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