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HEADLINE: Ninety years of Everton Weekes

 
CaribbeanCricket.com 2015-02-26 08:19:41 

Of all the numbers stacked against the name Everton de Courcy Weekes in scorebooks the world over, 90 carries an unfortunate significance.

It was his score in West Indies' first innings of the fourth Test against India in Chepauk, Madras, now Chennai, in January 1949. Ten more runs would have extended his overall record of five successive Test hundreds that has never been surpassed; he was cut short by a run-out decision by the square-leg umpire that Weekes now euphemistically describes as "rather doubtful".

Sixty-six years on, the figure 90 carries an altogether happier connotation for a celebrated cricketer, now Sir Everton Weekes, Knight Commander of the Order of St Michael and St George (KCMG), holder of Barbados' Gold Crown of Merit (GCM), who enters the tenth decade of a fulfilling life on Thursday.


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tc1 2015-02-26 08:46:59 

Keep going Sir Everton, great coach

 
Tryangle 2015-02-26 09:00:47 

This article was positively brilliant. Loved the anecdotes from Weekes.

Keep on batting, sir.

 
bobby 2015-02-26 09:18:49 

In reply to CaribbeanCricket.com
I have met and chatted with him many times. What a wonderful man and a real gentleman.
Happy birthday and I hope you have many more.

 
mitch44 2015-02-26 13:49:06 

I met him when he came to London Ontario in 1967 with a touring MCC team made up of retired players.

A real gentleman.

Happy birthday Sir Everton.