January 26, 2016
Tony Cozier
January 26, 2016
In reply to Narper
When it became the Red Stripe Cup it was also a great competition. I remember going to matches at sabina park that were packed and had a fantastic atmosphere in the late 1980s.
The decline in interest and quality seems to have started at the turn of the century.
In reply to mikesiva
Growing up in GT...every school boy owned or wanted to own a transistor radio especially to listen to cricket...on the streets people were listening to radio commentaries...walking , bicycling or driving....in those days Shell Shield was as big as test cricket
In reply to Narper & mikesiva
In reply to Narper
so you beat de system.you never pay for radio licence?
In reply to Narper
Stirring up good old memories. Bhai.
Sweet innocent teenage years.
When memories come, a lot come, (flooded)
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Some household names, specific to Shell Shield stars.
Bynoe
Lashley
McMorris
Prince Bartholomew
Joey Carew
Willie Rodriguez (yes, unreadable googley)
A chubby fair skin white or Portuguese hard hitting T$T middle order batsman who recently died.
Many, many more.
Call some names!
In reply to goofballs
Desosa.
In reply to camos
Thanks! A bit chubby.
My little bro and sister liked him, and the name.
Peter DeSouza?
In reply to Narper
I can picture playing softball cricket in the yard and listening to the commentary on the beat up sony transistor radio. "Back to Bourda" after the ads.
In reply to goofballs
you left out Uton Dowe!
In reply to goofballs
Richard is his name
Pyadana
Matthews
Blair
Ralston Otto
Sabestain
Luther Kelly
In reply to tc1
YEP! Thanks.
Memory slowly coming back.
We had Glasgow,
Adonis
Ramnarace
Baichan
Collymore, both the spinner and the pacer
In reply to goofballs
In reply to jacksprat
I can still clearly visualize him. Loved his hard hitting.
In reply to googley
In reply to googley
In reply to goofballs
Irvine eventually played test.
The Ali brothers from TnT...Inshan and Imtiaz
In reply to goofballs
Dowe shalt not bowl!
I remember the players from the 80s and 90s, like that overweight but astute captain Marlon Tucker.
Mark Neita
Delroy Morgan
Wayne Lewis
Derron Dixon
Basil Williams
Timur Mohammed
Ganesh Mahabir
Thelston Payne
In reply to camos
In reply to mikesiva
I know Timur only from that list.
Played against him in under 14, QC v Saints.
Remember leg spinner Barrett, Jamaican?
and a spinner from the small islands, ??Perry.
They got a few tests.
In reply to goofballs
Barrett bowled Sobers!
In reply to Narper
Good memories.
Guyana Shell Shield and Red Stripe
Mark Harper
Keith Cameron
Sydney Matthews
Sew Shivnarine
Amarnauth Ramcharitar
Suresh Ganouri
Tyrone Etwaroo
Romain Etwaroo
Reginanld Etwaroo
Keshwar Persaud
Philbert Blair
Adjodha Persaud
Andrew Jackman
Kamal Singh
Leslaine Lambert
Ray Joseph
Jerry Angus
Clayton Lambert
Rabindranauth Seeram
Paul Persaud
Sheik Mohammed
Stephen Bamfield
Keith Glasgow
Will add some more later!
The Jamaican keeper who was full of styles, ?obsessional rituals
PINNOCK!
Quite a character.
I think he wore a hat?
I started as a school boy following Shell Shield cricket on my little transistor radio at Harrison College with all my school mates checking for the scores.
My hero worship reached its zenith with this 1981 Bajan team
Alvin Greenidge
Desmond Haynes
Emmerson Trotman
Carlisle Best
Collis King
David Murray
Malcolm Marshall
Albert Padmore capt
Joel Garner
Sylvester Clarke
Wayne Daniel
and still despite that fearsome four prong....Chang and Dujon used to frustrate them when they meet Jamaica....Dujon has a century against them!
Back then the only reason I wanted a transistor radio was to listen to Shell Shield cricket.
In reply to analyst-kid
Odelmo Peters payed for Barbados, right?
In reply to WestDem
jamaica
elquemedo willett
remember Luther Kelly getting out for 90+ the over before lunch.
In reply to WestDem
Lal Munilall
Wilfred Slack
Familiar Names from CI/LI/WI I did not see mentioned yet...
Vance Amory
Victor Eddy
Norbert Phillip
Winston Davis
Elquimedo (spelling) Willet
Anthony Merrick
Lance John
In reply to mikesiva
In reply to Narper
Memories
1966-Clive Lloyd 0 and 107 at the Mecca, then 194 at Sabina Park but fails to gain selection for England tour.
Sobers dropped by Jackman off Gibbs when he had about 15,goes on to make 204 and Jackman never plays for Guyana again.
1967 Fredericks makes 2 hundreds against Barbados after being drafted into Guyana team when Camacho falls ill and Etwaroo had already gone back to Berbice.
Jackie Hendriks stumps somebody off fast bowler Lester King and we all swore the batsman was bowled. Pinnock as pretty as a picture.
1973 teenaged Mikey Holding as cool as a cucumber glides up to the wicket and Freddo like a ballerina deposits ball onto the South stand roof.
In reply to googley
Yes...he too and Courtney Gonsalves...first Essequibo Player to represent Guyana....there was also Rupert Gomes my village peep...
In reply to Dukes
remember Freddo 194 and McMorris 200+ in that game.
In reply to Dukes
Best ton I heard was the Hooper debut ton against Barbados have to get there with 9 wickets down and Ray Joseph at the other end...Then that Lloyd/Kalli solving Harold Joseph mystery was also classic.
My non-Jamaican favorites:
TRINIDAD
Bernard Julien
Richard DeSouza
Raphick Jumadeen
BARBADOS
David Holford
Thelston Payne
Winslow Ashby
GUYANA
Roy Fredericks
Basil Butcher
Lance Gibbs
COMBINED ISLANDS
Victory Eddy
Lochart Sebastian
Hugh Gore
In reply to analyst-kid
Great memories!
I realised you didn't include Leslie Norman Reifer.
He played a magnificent innings against the Guyanese in 1981.
Bim defeated them by an innings and 200+ runs.
Reifer batted at #6 and scored 150+ not out.
Haynes, Greenidge, Payne, Trotman, Murray, Marshall, Clarke, Padmore and Allen made up the Bajan 11.
Guyana had Bacchus, Etwaroo, Mohammed and the 2 Harpers, Kallicharran, Persuad and others.
Clarke, Alleyne and Marshall nearly "kill" them with pace.
There was a chap from Windward Islands Kentish. He was one of my favorite small islanders also Guishard from Leeward.
Those glorious days. I am smiling from ear to ear. Lovely thread.
In reply to JoeGrine
Lawd of all the bajan players you picked those three?
Lovely thread.
In reply to mikesiva
what ever happen to Derron Dixon? He was a promising all-rounder
In reply to Verstehen
Rumshop has the potential to become the first and the best Digital/Online cricket museum..
In reply to Verstehen
Narper going after our record.
In reply to Khaga
Shut you skunt and list some West Indian players that you admire at the Regional level....
In reply to allan
In reply to WestDem
Seriously bro..the wealth of knowledge and experience of cricket..gladiatorial!
There will be shows like "1976 Sabina"..a bunch of you guys will start reeling off those stories,cussing Gavaskar,making fun of Bedi..
Then we go further back into the 60s...
About time these legendary posters start being selective and package their experiences for bitcoins..
In reply to WestDem
I read quite a few of West Indies cricket annuals,edited by Tony Cozier.. But,that experience has long been surpassed by the knowledge imparted by the posters here.
I will take a moment off from cussing and thank everyone.
The most dramatic moment in shell shield cricket occurred when Clive Lloyd arrived by helicopter at Bourda with Guyana 5 wickets down, changed into his cricket gear and joined Kallicharran in a stand where both scored centuries.
In reply to Dukes
That was where he earned the name "Burnham Magic?"
In reply to Khaga
Still gats dat chip on ya shoulder about our savage bowling to ya sad bunch of homies huh?
tsk tsk
In reply to sgtdjones
Not chip..just to trying to glorify your past.
Maurice Foster
Sam Morgan
Bruce Wellington
Castel Folkes
Roy McCatty
Livern Wellington
Lindel Wright
Victor Fray
Rudy Cohen
Desmond Lewis
Policeman - decent fastbowler who partnered Holding & Walsh, can't remember his name
In reply to Khaga
In reply to Dukes
In reply to CWWeekes
In reply to Dukes
In reply to googley
Aside from Shell Shield, I also remember those crazy matches between Berbice and Demerara...those were some real whoopers
Saw Kanhai towards the end of his great career representing Berbice at Bourda...what a memorable time!
In reply to shivnotout
In reply to jacksprat
No, wasn't Cecil "Pacy' Lawson; this guy came after Lawson. He played in the 80's.
How could we forget another worthy Shell Shield alumnus:
Cleveland Davidson
Muddies...which mudland cricketer in the 70s was called 'ball oil'
And he was have done well in T20...he used to light up Bourda in the days
In reply to WestDem
Oh I've got an even better one up my sleeve...
In reply to goofballs
In reply to Narper
In reply to FuzzyWuzzy
Back then I waz in a fuz
In reply to Kay
Keith Galsgow
In reply to CWWeekes
Patrick Patterson?
In reply to WestDem
In reply to Dukes
Clyde Butts...the first time we heard about him was on the morning of the game....word is he bowled to Alvin in the nets at Everest and he impressed Alvin so much, he was a last moment inclusion!
In reply to Narper
In reply to Narper
I will never forget Roy Fredericks. My team, the Combined Islands, were playing a Shell Shield game against Guyana at Bourda. Guyana batted first and at lunch the score was 152 without loss. Fredericks had 111 and I can't even remember how many Stephen Camacho made.
In reply to CWWeekes
REMEMBERING Shell Shield was always remembering Bajan batsmen loved fast bowling but there was one particular fast bowler who put fear in their hearts: ANDY ROBERTS...
I remember a time back in the 1970s when he ran thru a Bajan batting line-up terrorising with his variety of bouncers with only Collis King putting up a counter attack with hooks and pulls in what many called a running 75!
In reply to CWWeekes
In reply to analyst-kid
I saw one day of that match. The highlight was when Andy bowled Ashby first ball of the second innings. Combined won the match because of Andy and think for the first time..
To: Jack Sprat, Camos, Analyst Kid
Analyst Kid & Spratty, thanks, you got it, Earle or Aaron Daley is the name I couldn't recall.
In reply to CWWeekes
John Earle
In reply to JoeGrine
did he ever played for Jamaica.
In reply to googley
how many shell shield games you ever see.? and me nah talk about reading news papers
leh me hear
In reply to JoeGrine
John Earle was a Senior Cup folk hero from the early 70s but I do not recall him ever playing for Jamaica.
I soundly remembered the Jamaican opening pair
Richard Austin and Desmond Lewis putting on loads of century partnerships
No one mentioned Sam Morgan.
In reply to Raggs
Richard Austin and Desmond Lewis only played a few games together. I do not recall "loads of" , or any, century partnerships between them.
Basil Williams, a converted middle order batsman, was pressed in to service to partner Austin
at the top of order, when Dessie Lewis stopped playing, circa 1976.
In reply to jacksprat
Shotgun Williams was a shot a ball man. But lewis and Austin burns in my memory as a successful opening pair. I must find a way to check the records.
The U19 kid Sew Shivnarine (Black Jack) trapping Lawrence Rowe LBW and Bourda went wild. People ran out with money.
In reply to jacksprat
The stable Jamaican opening pair was Samuel Morgan and Desmond Lewis. Williams and Austin (who mostly played in the middle) came after.
I don't recall John Earle ever playing for Jamaica.
Hola....you can call it anything...bottom line is..cricket was played with a passion and nuff players had ability and desire to make the opposition
crumble.....
thats why it was enjoyable and we yearned and appreciatied it...
the cricket today is played by persons with no ability...no desire to improve ....who can excited over that....
More fun watching crabs march at the sea dam and scurring to their holes...
Adios
CB
In reply to CITYBOY
In reply to shivnotout
a few..not much. like most, followed the games on my transistor radio
In reply to googley
Watched quite a few from around 1980...before that it was transistor radio...
In reply to googley
Very happy memories
Guyana never had decent pacers until Croft came along. Was always Harper, Butts, D. Kallicharran
In reply to Bigzinc
Before I left the colony I saw Butts and D. Kallicharran in some youth trial match at Bourda.
Butts was a big hard hitting middle order batsman and Derek was bowling spin, I think..
In reply to goofballs
Butts was an Offie good enough to play test for the west indies, D Kallicharran was a bowling all rounder (leg breaks and googlies)
In reply to goofballs
In reply to WestDem
An underlying fact is that those players played for pride...there was not much money in the game.
But then because of the competitive nature of the games, the level rose, the players remained dedicated to their countires. There were no IPL, CPL etc...the lone commitment for most were English league and test matches.
In reply to WestDem
1973 or 74.
This Butts?
I know they were very young. Can't forget a name like that.
Maybe was schoolboys' game or another Butts. The ole timers watching were very excited about the two of them.Derek was bowling spin to the "Butts" fella.
"Full name Clyde Godfrey Butts
Born July 8, 1957, Perseverance, East Coast, Demerara, British Guiana"
In reply to WestDem
Livingstone Sargeant was a very elegant batsman. I believe that he was from St. Kitts.
In reply to Emir
Once again YOU have hit the nail on the Head . Our Problem is that those
in the Governance of Cricket in the Region are not interested in making Our Players fully Competitive .
Their only goal is to preserve the archaic Structure that was formed many years ago .
NOTHING ELSE MATTERS TO THESE
EGOTISTICAL MIMIC MEN .
In reply to Dukes
In reply to Baje
Bwoy...these names...
In reply to SirGarny
That is why all the experts rate JOHN LESLIE "Jackie" HENDRIKS as THE BEST WEST INDIES WICKETKEEPER.
Who remembers Winston English and Philbert Blair?
In reply to Narper
I remember Philbert Blair very well because he used to play for DCC.I remember Blair and the "BEAST" whose name I think was Layne used to open the bowling for DCC. Blair was faster than the Beast but the Beast was awesome. I am pretty sure he was a body builder.
Who can forget the Policeman Winston English getting Garry clean bowled for 165. My cousin who was as much a Sobie fanatic as I was claimed that the ball hit a piece of mud and shot along the ground. English bowled left handed and batted right.
In reply to Bigzinc
In reply to Dukes
Heard quite a few stories of one Ivan Madray....how good was he?
In reply to Ewart
john trim was way way back..you might as well mention charlie stayers..
In reply to SirGarny
richard desouza and oscar durity
In reply to WestDem
In reply to WestDem... them era there don't count, cause if Dukes nuh know ... that too long to be counted.
The 2 Bajan batsmen who used to frustrate us in Guyana were Robin Bynoe and Peter Lashley. The reason we were upset about them is that they always seemed to score massive runs against Guyana but could not buy a run for the West Indies.
They were the Devon Smith and Lockhart Sebastien of the 60's.
In reply to Dukes
And then there was the case of Carlisle Best - despite making runs he couldnt get into the WI team because of Greenidge/Haynes.
I remembered him scoring a century in an ODI vs England. He pushed and went from 99 to 100 and went for another run and got run out - aptly summed up his career
Anthony Gray was another born in the wrong time player. Would have walked into a WI team in any other decade.
Good memories this thread. During cricket season, it was almost imperative the radio at home would be on loud from Friday to Monday listening cricket
In reply to Prako
didn't Best made 127 or 112 in test against England?
In reply to camos
He made a 164 at the Mecca against England batting at #4 between Richardson and Viv
Later that year Brian Lara made his debut and Carlisle never played Tests against for WI.
In reply to CWWeekes
Colin Hinds
Cleveland Davidson
Aaron Daley
Colin Fletcher
There was a s-l-o-w scoring opener from Islands. Can't memba his name now too, but was always reliable.
In reply to Prako
lots of players in the 80s who were very good and did not represent WI
Victor Eddy, Ralston Otto, George Ferris, Anthony Merrick, Andy Jackman , Timur Mohamed, Franklin Stephenson, Emmerson Trotman, Herbert Chang, Delroy Morgan, Jim Allen
Laurie Williams
In reply to Prako
Tony Gray was an outstanding fast bowler who was clearly born at the wrong time.I remember vividly the Late Great Freddie Trueman saying he was a wonderful bowler.
No love fuh Richard Gabriel? He was pretty good fuh T&T...
In reply to Dukes
In reply to amedatman I dont recall Colin Hinds playing for Jamaica.
In reply to Narper
Remember McMorris and Pimmock scoring heavily against Guyana in Guyana in 1967; Ja got first innings points. I believe McMorris scored a double in this game after taking a century off Barbados in the previous game,if memory serves me right.
I believe Geoffrey Greenidge as a teenager had scored a double off JA in the B'dos. ghame.
Another Shell Shield alumnus - Geoffrey Greenidge
In reply to Bigzinc
I played for a US 11 against a windies select in Mount Vernon many moons ago.Ralston Otto had just played a lofted off drive that sailed out of the ground as if it had wings. Des Haynes was talking to us on the sidelines. He said Otto in his estimation, was one of the best batsmen to have not played for the Windies.
In reply to SirGarny Here are a few Uton Dowe anecdotes...
1. We are sitting at the public bathing beach in my hometown.We are talking things cricket and the usual banter, town school versus country school.He went to XLCR (town). He turns to me and says " Allie me ago play fi West Indies you know". I was a bit taken aback.
Two (2) or three (3) years later,that dream came to pass.
2.He tells of a Shell Shield game- Jamaica versus Combined Islands in Antigua and Roberts is bowling super fast.Purportedly Roberts hits Rowe on his pads and his contact lens fall out.He pitches one short to Dujon.His evasive action has the entire Jamaica team turning their heads away.
He said the only Jamaican batsman who stood out was Desmond Lewis, who was daring Roberts to pitch up to him.
3.Jamaica is playing Trinidad & Tobago at QPO and Charlie Davis is killing the Jamaican bowling.Our man goes over to the Jamaican skipper and suggests that he can get Davis out.Short while after the skipper hands him the ball.He goes into his run oversteps by about 3 or 4 feet and the delivery hits Davis in midsection,the umpire's hand is out long time-No Ball.The skipper is almost in tears.
In reply to CWWeekes
In reply to alfa1975
I thought he was selected in the squad but never played. How about Errol Wilson, Hylton Gordon, Dago, & Danny Germs.
In reply to WestDem
In reply to Bigzinc
In reply to CWWeekes
I remember that Barbados vs Jamaica in the 1980s was called a "mini test"
Barbados: Haynes, Greenidge, Best, Payne, Marshall, Garner
Jamaica: Dujon, Holding, Walsh, Patterson
In reply to amedatman
Wilson the offspinner from Lucas I think played,but can't remember Dago Gordon playing!
In reply to Baje
Sargant from Nevis; remember Veron Edwards from Antigua; he was special to look at
Rawle Brancker from Barbados; Barbados and Guyana had awesome batting; their matches were often first innings points affairs
In reply to culpepperboy Yes, and the Barbadian groundsmen flattened out the wicket to minimise the Jamaican pacemen
In reply to WestDem
Sen Gopaul
It was not the Shell Shield that was mighty, but regional cricket. These were the days when regional cricketers were inspired by PRIDE only - personal, national and regional. No Guyanese was ashamed to say that he or she was Guyanese, for example, and no West Indian was ashamed to say he or she was West Indian. Is was quite the opposite, in fact.
These were the days when players only received a match fee as remuneration. They even had to take unpaid leave to represent their country in the Shell Shield. Yet they excelled and made themselves into world class cricketers.
Out the early Shell Shield came Rowe, Desmond Lewis, Dowe, Boyce, Holford, Julien, Freddo, Kalli, Lloyd and others, and many lesser lights at that time. Unforgettable contests and episodes were played out - some with the lesser lights as the stars of the day. After these came Viv, Roberts, Patterson, Holding, Dujon, Larry Gomes, Collis King, Garner, Croft, Hooper and many others.
Freddo put an unforgettable beating on a Uton Dowe opening over - to the tune of 22 runs off the over - a thing unheard of in regional cricket at the time. Baichan scored 95 over almost 2 days with a runner to rescue Guyana from an impossible situation at hands of Jamaica. Rowe's double century off Guyana, and Jamaica's opener Morgan's exciting batting against all comers made the Shell Shield "mighty" - even while it was still being played.
No team relished playing at Queen's Park Oval, where T&T's spin quartet was bound to become magicians on a wicket sure to take plenty of spin from the very first ball! Inshan Ali, Raphick Jumadeen, Imtiaz Alli, Jack Noriega, Ranjie Nanan, etc, all quite ordinary elsewhere, morphed into spitting cobras at Queen's Park Oval, causing the regional selectors plenty of headaches.
Bourda was a featherbed - a place where batsmen became murderers and bowlers their hapless victims - on the days when play was possible. About half the time, however, the skies would open up and storms of biblical proportions would convert the Bourda sward into a profound looking lake, with only the bowlers on both teams smiling from ear to ear!
Sabina Park was a featherbed like Bourda - except that the Yard had this guy named Yagga. You just didn't want to bowl him at Sabina Park - especially when he started whistling! Yagga'a able accomplices at Sabina included Morgan, Maurice Foster, etc, and Jamaica was rarely ever bowled out on that track. No so the opposition, however!
Kensington alone was somewhat fair - giving fast bowlers a better chance than anywhere else in the Caribbean. Scoring a century at Kensington, especially against Barbados's outstanding pacemen, was to write your name permanently into Shell Shield history. Freddo scored over 200 in a day's play there, going on to 250 the next morning. It was there too that Carl Hooper's dazzling batting came to the attention of the rest of the region.
But the biggest success story of the Shell Shield was probably that of regional newcomers the Combined Islands - regional Cinderellas in the Shield's early days. Despite talent such as Ralston Otto, Lochart Sebastien, Vic Eddy, Jim Allen, Irving Shillingford, Grayson Shillingford, etc, they were being whipped regularly, to the point where victory over them was taken for granted.
Then came one Andy Roberts and one Viv Richards to change the fortunes of the Combined Islands - but it was Jim Allen that led them to regional "equality". A brilliant century at Kensington Oval by the mercurial Allen - who was probably second to no other batsman in the world on his day - set up an incredible victory by the regional underdogs over regional powerhouse Barbados.
Then came the famous Tante Merle match at Queen's Park Oval - when the scores were level when the match ended - and the underdogs were now joint regional champions! Ironically, the Combined Islands would have been outright champions if Mike Findlay had run himself out, thus causing the the match to end in a tie, instead of a draw!
What followed after that was the West Indies' rise to the top of world cricket - as the very rich vein of talent from the Windwards and Leewards was finally allowed to flow into the regional team - talent developed in the Shell Shield competition.
The unforgettable names of cricketers who played in the Shell Shield are many, and so too were the unforgettable episodes and matches. Regional cricket under the Shell Shield was indeed mighty!
In reply to amedatman
Dago Gordon never played cricket for Jamaica at any level but many felt he had the innate talent to play not only for Jamaica but West Indies with both bat and gloves.
Unfortunately, the circumstances of his birth - plus his parrarel career as a brilliant footballer -militated against him being allowed to achieve more in cricket.
In addition, he migrated when he was still in his prime.
It is said that Lall Munilall was a better batsman the Kalli but he had the Sarwan like syndrome.
Enjoyed watching him at Everest.
In reply to jacksprat
True, Dago never represented JA in cricket at any level. I heard a story, don't know if its true but its kinda funny so I will repeat here.
The story I heard was that Dago was at Up Park Camp at a camp for the youth cricket team and sneaked out on a Saturday. On the following day his picture was in the Gleaner as a member of Boys Town's minor league football team which had won the finals that Saturday evening. The story as given to me was that he was kicked out of the camp for this.
In reply to CWWeekes
Your story is true... however it was the policy at that time that whenever the cricket camp was in session you were not allowed to leave the base without permission and they would not allow you to go play any game outside neither cricket or football. Some very good cricketers choose to leave the camp for football like EB Barrett (vere) Las Shaw (vere) Errol Hanson (steths) Xavier Henry (KC), while others stayed Jeff Macleod (cornwall) Beenie Lewis (Kths).
The issue was that Dago choose to leave the camp without permission and do something that he was warned not to do hoping that the coaches would not find out.
Now Richard Austin (staths) stay in camp during his schoolboy years but choose to go play a major league football game on the same day that he played a shell shield game in MoBay but there was no rule in play for the senior team so he was ok...
btw did you know that Lloyd "Respic:"Morgan also played cricket and football for Jamaica on the same day
In reply to ychs67
Thanks for the confirmation.
Know that Respic played both cricket & football for JA. but never heard of him representing Ja at both on the same day; could be a Guinness record.
By the way, since this thread is about the Shell Shield I remember listening on the radio and hearing Respic having Derryck Murray at sea in one mesmerizing over in a Shell Shield game at "Bina".
In reply to Narper
In reply to openning
I only remember Sir Carl,
Dhaniarm, Butts,Harper and Lambert!!
In reply to alfa1975
That's not how I remembered it. Barbados had Marshall, Garner and Milton Small, I think.
I can still remember Haynes and Best ducking from some Holding bouncers!!
I didn't read the entire thread, so I don't know whether this has already been mentioned.
What about that Sabina park match when Muddies Sydney Matthews and Roy Fredricks got off on Uton Dowe?
That beating was even worse that the infamous Dowe shalt not bowl saga.
In reply to culpepperboy
Peter Lashley
Sheldon Gomes
Prince Bartholomew
Luther Kelly
Rex Collymore
Philbert Blair
Ranjie Nanan
Victor Eddie
David Holford
Uton Dowe
Collis King
Keith Glasgow
Milton Pydana
Desmond Lewis
Imtiaz Ali
to name a few!
In reply to JoeGrine
Correct..John ( Prekkeh ) Earle who became on of my best buddies and sparring
partner( an excellent dancer ) never played for JA. His lifestyle and being from
St Catherine did not sit well with the higher authories.He was a sporer night owl.
But he was a very good fast medium pacer..Gave Roy Fredericks nightmares when he
faced him the Sugar Estates Tests then...BG,TT and Jamaica used to have Sugar Estate
cricket exchangies..
He clean bowled 'Cement Head' Freddo twice in three innings.
But while Earle did not play for Jamaica he became the yadrstick by which upcoming
batsmen were measured. When One tonned up against Prekky in Senior Cup, he was
assured of a Jamaica pick. When a young Maurice Foster tamed him at Bina,I knew
Fos was headed not only for JA but WI.
Nice thread this BTW.
Some of my favorite players in Shell Shield were from Leewards and Windwards.
Livingstone Sargent, Sebastien,Alford Corriette out of Montserrat( Is cricket still played there ?),
Norbert Phillip, Victor Eddy, Irvine Shillingford and Viv of course.Always wanted them to excel.
Guyana's 1966-7 squad: what great names!
Basil Butcher
Steve Camacho
Lloyd Cornelius
Winston English
Lance Gibbs
Roy Fredericks
Ovid Glasgow
Alvin Kallicharran
Rohan Kanhai
Clive Lloyd
Vincent Mayers
Edwin Mohamed
Geoffrey Murray
Randolph Ramnarace
Joe Solomon
T&T's squad in 66-67:
Willie Rodriguez
Inshan Ali
Jamiel Ali
Joey Carew
Andrew Clarke
Bryan Davis
Charlie Davis
Richard de Souza
Kenneth Furlonge
Wes Hall
Leo John
Deryck Murray
Harry Ramoutar
Pascall Roberts
Windwards in 66-67:
Evelyn Gresham (c)
David Archer
Hollis Bristol
Earl Cenac
C. Charlemagne
Sparrow Duncan
Henry Elwin
Mike Findlay
Tyrone Harbin
Clem John
Kaleb Laurent
Bryan Mauricette
Jerome Mellow
Irvine Shillingford
Bim 66-67:
Gary Sobers (c)
Arthur Bethell
Rawle Brancker
Robin Bynoe
Richard Edwards
Geoff Greenidge
Charlie Griffith
Vanburn Holder
David Holford
Tony Howard
Conrad Hunte
Erskine King
Peter Lashley
Seymour Nurse
Wycliffe Phillips
Alfred Taylor
Jamaica in 66-67:
Jackie Hendriks (c)
Arthur Barrett
Paul Buchanan
Rudolph Cohen
Maurice Foster
Victor Fray
Teddy Griffith
Ferdie Harvey
Neville Hawkins
Lester King
Easton McMorris
Renford Pinnock
Altemont Wellington
Leewards 66 - 67:
Len Harris (c)
Hesketh Benjamin
Leroy Coury
William Duberry
Clement Francis
Adolphus Freeland
Edgar Gilbert
Auckland Hector
Clement Hicks
Cecil Martin
Hilson Phillip
Lionel Thomas
Harold Walters
when Guyana played Barbados - looking at legends playing regional cricket, better than today's lineups
In reply to dax
Excellent thread that has resurrected some memories for me...
It was tough and good cricket.
Most of the players were part time cricketers who had to make a living with real jobs.
Makes me you realize how good they were
In reply to googly1961
Great memories from back then
For muddies -
Rex Ramnarace
Syd Matthews
Ajodha Persaud
Lal Munilal
Faoud Bacchus
Sew Shivnarine
And I am not talkig test players like
Freddo
Camacho
Kanhai
Kalli
Big Cat
Gibbs and the rest
In reply to Curtis
Great job indeed kind Sir. The memories are all we can hang our hats on these days, considering the state of our cricket.
I remember a trial match during preparations for the Shell Shield in 1973. Kanhai was named captain of the Guyana team as well as the WI team and he came out to bat late one Saturday afternoon in the trial match.Robert Adonis who was nicknamed Pacer was pretty quick in those days and he was bowling.The crowd was egging him on to bounce Kanhai out and he obviously took the bait and bounced the Babu.The first bouncer had Kanhai ducking and he ended up on the seat of his pants. The crowd roared and Adonis being somewhat clever bowled a yorker next ball which Kanhai easily dug out.
Next ball was another screaming bouncer which Kanhai easily ducked. By this time the crowd was going wild and a chant was started and then Pacer bowled another bouncer.Quick as a flash Kanhai swivelled and the ball soared out of the ground and ended up in Fatima church yard.I will never forget that afternoon snd my respect for Rohan Bholall Kanhai as Guyana's greatest batsman will never change.
LONG LIVE ROHAN KANHAI!!!!!!!!!
Rex Collymore
In reply to camos
The man from Plaisance, East Coast Demerara.
In reply to Dukes
In reply to Dukes
In reply to Narper
DAMN.
I remember he had an excellent tour of England in the 70's
RIP Bevan Congdon
P.S Just looked it up.He scored 175 and 176 in consecutive innings
In reply to Narper
In reply to Narper
What a coincidence WRT Congdon.
He saved a test by himself vs WI on that 72 tour.
I think he made 166 n.o.
Batted with the tail for most of a day.