St John’s, ANTIGUA – The West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) is celebrating with Sir Everton Weekes on this his 91st birthday today (February 26). The right-handed batsman, who is from Barbados is possibly the oldest living Test cricketer and the West Indies would like to recognise and share in this great moment with this outstanding man in the region and the world.

President, Dave Cameron in his wishes says “Sir Everton Weekes, one of the three famous Ws in the West Indies and the world forms a significant part of our history and we salute him on this milestone.”
Sir Everton has the Order of St Michael and St George, Gold Crown of Merit and the Order of the British Empire. In the ten years he represented the West Indies, he played 48 Tests and scored 15 centuries with a top score of 207. His batting average was 58.61 and scored 4,455 runs. He played for his home country Barbados for 20 years and at the First-Class level he played 152 games and scored 12,010 runs with an average of 55.34. He had 36 centuries in that total. His highest total was 304 not out.

At the joint WICB/WIPA Awards in Jamaica last year June, Sir Everton was one of the seven members of the ‘Sir’s Club’ for men who have been knighted. He was accompanied by Sir Garfield Sobers, Sir Vivian Richards, Sir Richie Richardson, Sir Andy Roberts, Sir Wes Hall and Sir Curtly Ambrose.

“The region and the world celebrate with Sir Everton and we wish him the best for this special occasion,” Cameron added.

In reply to CaribbeanCricket.com

Happy Birthday Sir, get that hundred. No 6s no 4s, BUT one single at a time

In reply to doosra
What about Sir Carl?

Keep on batting great one

In reply to tc1

I spend a few days with him here in Calgary, and buddy and I listened to him speak of cricket and his career over dinner at the Calgary Tower in the early seventies.
He and Conrad Hunte I can listen too, for hours.

Happy birthday Sir.

In reply to openning

Your empire bias coming thru

In reply to FuzzyWuzzy

I am a life time Blue and I am very proud of it.



Bro, when you have five cents to last you all day, and you walked from Pinfold Street to Dayrells Road, YMPC, Carlton, Kensington Oval, the Park and Bank Hall to watch Empire, you are a fan

In reply to Narper

is we give him that Sir lol

not the queen

Happy birthday General Everton Weeks

In reply to doosra

Thought Sir Carl was knighted in Barbados

In reply to FuzzyWuzzy

yes not the queen

In reply to CaribbeanCricket.com

Happy Birthday to the great man.

In reply to openning

yes, indeed he could a story and make you laugh. he always call you 'little man'. well spoken .