WICB says Happy 80th to Nurse

Mon, Nov 11, '13

The West Indies Cricket Board today sent special birthday greetings to one of the best batsmen to represent the West Indies Team.

Seymour Nurse the prolific Barbados and West Indies batsman from the 1960s celebrated his 80th birthday on Sunday – making him one of the oldest surviving West Indies cricketers.

Nurse was a classy right-handed middle order batsman who played 29 Test matches. He made 2,523 runs and averaged 47.6 runs per innings. He made six centuries including a best of 258 in his final Test innings in New Zealand in 1969.