David Holford was an outstanding captain

Mon, Jun 6, '22

In assessing the cricketing career of David Anthony Jerome Holford, his leadership qualities will always stand out.

The former Barbados captain and West Indies allrounder died at his home on Monday at the age of 82 following a lengthy illness.

A leg-spin bowler and lower middle-order batter, Holford played 24 Test matches between 1966 and 1977. He scored 768 runs including one century and three half-centuries at an average of 22.58 and took 51 wickets (ave: 39.39) with a best haul of five for 23 in a winning cause against India at Kensington Oval in 1976.

His century (105 not out), in only his second Test, was a match-saving effort against England at Lord’s in 1966 as he added an unbroken 274 for the sixth wicket with his cousin and captain Garry Sobers (now the Right Excellent Sir Garfield Sobers), who made an unbeaten 163.

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