By Tony McWatt Aside from his own personal contributing attributes, Richardson credits much of his attained success to the encouragement and mentorship he received from many individuals including family members, friends and especially his West Indies teammates. Long before his eventual West Indies selection, he’d spent a summer living in Somerset, England with his fellow …
Greatness Guides: Sir Richie Richardson Part II! Read More »
By Tony McWatt Born January 12, 1962, in the Five islands Village of his native Antigua, Richard Benjamin Richardson, now fondly known universally as Sir Richie following his February 28th 2014 Antigua government rendered appointment as a Knight Commander of the Order Of the Nation, remembers playing cricket from ever since he first knew himself! …
Sir Ritchie Richardson: From Playground Cricketer To Test Greatness- Part I! Read More »
Universally regarded as the Godfather of contemporary West Indian fast bowling Anderson Montgomery Everton Roberts took 202 wickets at an average of 25.61 in 47 Test matches he played. His best-ever individual bowling performance was the 7 for 54 he took in the Perth 2nd Test of the 1975-76 Down Under series against Australia. Roberts …
SIR ANDY ROBERTS FROM BEACH BOWLER TO ONE OF TEST CRICKET’S BEST EVER! Read More »
Alvin Kallicharran is now universally regarded and acknowledged as one of the most complete batsmen to have ever represented the West Indies. Equally capable of being at his very best against either pace or spin. During an international career that surprisingly lasted only a mere 9 years, from 1972 – 1981, Alvin Kallicharran played 66 …
Alvin Kallicharran’s “Colour Blind” Greatness Guides! Read More »
Lancelot Richard Gibbs was born in Georgetown, Guyana, on September 29, 1934. He began his active involvement in cricket as a fourteen year old, practicing his newly discovered interest, initially in the form of a leg-spinner, on the field of the Demerara Cricket Club in the neighborhood of Queenstown where he lived. From that inauspicious …
During the early days of his West Indies career the development of Holding’s fast bowling skills benefited tremendously from his roommate exposure to Andy Roberts, whom he has always regarded as a genius in terms of his abilities to assess the relative strengths and weaknesses of opposition batsmen. Roberts was in so many ways a …
Michael Anthony Holding made his first-class debut for Jamaica in 1973 as a nineteen-year-old teenager and his Test debut just two years later at Brisbane during the 1st test of the WI 1975-76 Tour of Australia. Mikey Holding, as he is now universally and fondly known, eventually went on to capture 249 Test wickets in …
