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For a guy who has just started.

Please keep Naim Chan, Inderjeet and Sydney Jackman away from the mic please!!!

In reply to Larr Pullo

Agreed

In reply to Larr Pullo

The love affair continues.

Oh well.....................

In reply to Larr Pullo

yeah...not too bad..except for that karack-tuh juss now

In reply to Larr Pullo
Not bad at all....has a good voice for comments


Says he is studying Communications at UG

In reply to Narper

Good. Good young man, has a good head on his shoulders.

In reply to Larr Pullo

anything about Dowling you don't like?

In reply to camos

I don't like how the selectors discarded him....

In reply to Larr Pullo

Agreed, though some might say he should still be in the WI team...

In reply to Larr Pullo

Y'all leff mi primary school teacher alone

In reply to Larr Pullo

DCC by way of Saints. Always had a good head on his shoulders

In reply to laconic-1

Any other test players from Saints?
Stephen Camacho and Travis Dowlin.

Dowlin was in my class at Saints. Played with him a lot. had loads of talent.

In reply to Dukes

Charlie Stayers

In reply to deanjones

He was a good off-spinner then -more of a bowling all rounder

In reply to Larr Pullo

Come on Larr don't be so hard on them -they are working to support their families,as Norm would say"they have to eat a food too"

In reply to Dukes

Timur Mohammed was test material

Travis is very good indeed. He attempts to give real analysis, unlike the other clowns. I heard him today talking about balance and on-driving and the importance of batsmen to adjust individually. Nothing earth-shattering but at least he was attempting to think through things.

_ryan

In reply to Dukes

Ivor Mendonca...I believe MP Fermandes and the Christianis also went there. Maybe Norm can confirm

Keith Semple.

Clifford McWatt and Leslie Wight from the 1950s.

In reply to Admin

Didn't he go to Christ Church?

[b]In reply to Admin[/

Went to EISS with his brother orin, who wuz far from being a cricketer! Ridge wouldnt u agree?!

In reply to laconic-1

Despite coming out of QC, I have to say that Saints has been the most prolific producer of Guyana and Guyana WI cricketers in the country. QC rivals Saints only in the production of Under-19 cricketers.

Here is my alphabetical list of 10 Saints players who represented WI. Of these, 8 played Test cricket.

Stephen Camacho (WI Test batsman),
Cyril Christiani (WI Test wkpr),
Robert Christiani (WI Test batsman),
Travis Dowlin (WI Test batsman),
Clifford McWatt (WI Test wkpr),
Ivor Mendonca (WI Test wkpr),
Timur Mohamed (WI first class batsman),
Keith Semple (WI ODI batsman),
Charlie Stayers (WI Test fast bowler) and
Leslie Wight (WI Test batsman).

I won't be surprised if the list above is incomplete.

See the Saints page here,
Queen's College page here,
Central High School page here,
Richard Ishmael Sec page here, and
Corentyne High here.

Any help (even titbits of info) would be highly appreciated in this project. I believe it is a step in helping to bring cricket back to schools, which feed the clubs - the foundation of national and regional cricket.

The current list of school pages may be found here.

In reply to camos

I'm glad you brought that up.

Dowlin provided good service to Guyana and the West Indies, despite numerous challenges.

One remembers when Gaja Singh accused him of on-field racism while he (Dowlin) captained the Demerara team in an inter-county match. Dowlin kept his cool and took the right action to clear his name. (This left the Demerara Cricket Board in a huge financial hole because of lawyers' fees, which in turn contributed significantly to the current GCB crisis.)

His batting helped Guyana win the Standford Twenty20 competition, and he performed much better than many expected when called up for WI duty, in the West indies and Australia. (He certainly performed better than Sars in Aus.)

Given all of that, Iwould not be at all surprised if Dowlin turns out to be an excellent cricket analyst, and commentator.

In reply to Norm

Thanks for the info.

In reply to Norm

I gotta ask you this. Are you related to Warren Figuera?

In reply to laconic-1

Lacs, no.

I recently discovered a 1987 photo of Warren. See here.

In reply to Norm

Was just wondering what qualify him for that list of notable Saints cricketers

In reply to laconic-1

Possibly that tour of Suriname, per said photo. Someone provided his name before I found the photo.