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Just thought I would post the names of a few Jamaican batsmen ... for the heck of it:


Jamaican Batsmen
George Headley
Lawrence Rowe
Easton McMorris
Basil “Shotgun” Williams
Herbert Chang
Everton Mattis
Maurice Foster
Jackie Hendricks
Desmond Lewis
Wavell Hinds
Christopher Henry “Universe Boss” Gayle
Jimmy "Padams" Adams
Xavier Marshall
Don Pagon
Leon Garrick
Frank Worrell
Teddy Griffith
Ivan Martin
Collie Smith
Allan Rae
Ivan Barrow
Neville Bonito
Carlton Baugh
Ferdie Martin
Anthony Campbell
Ken “Bam Bam” Weekes
Danza Hyatt
Ferdie Harvey
Renford Pinnock
Sam Morgan
Brendon Nash
Marlon Tucker
Dennis Thorbourne
Richard Staple
George Powell
Ricardo Powell
Mark Neita
John Kenneth Holt
Jeff Dujon
Robert Samuels
Marlon “Helegance” Samuels

Cleveland Davidson
Delroy Morgan
Mario Ventura
Wayne Lewis
Trevor Henry
Richard "Danny Germs" Austin
Collin Fletcher
Victor Fray
Livern Wellington
Lyndel Wright
Herman Bennett
Leonard Chambers
Tony Powell
Lionel Webb
Herbert Gordon
Canute Barclay
Ordelmo Peters
Marlon Tucker
Tamar Lambert
Cleveland Davidson
Blackwood,
Campbell (John),
Russell,
Bonner



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Jackie Hendricks

In reply to Ewart

Now can you post a list of ten St Lucian batsmen ,

In reply to buds

Yup. I will add him. Thanks.




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In reply to Ewart

Cleveland Davidson
Delroy Morgan
Mario Ventura
Wayne Lewis

In reply to Ewart

Trevor Henry
Richard "Danny Germs" Austin

Donovan Pagon

Collin Fletcher

Victor Fray

Livern Wellington

Lyndel Wright

Herman Bennett

Lenard Chambers

Desmond Lewis

Tony Powell

Lionel Webb

Herbert Gordon

In reply to Yadi

Ordelmo Peters
Marlon Tucker
Tamar Lambert

In reply to Raggs

Probably the best of the bunch.

In reply to buds

indeed a fave of yours if I remember rightly...

In reply to Ewart

Brendan Nash much like The Shiv would probably still making runs, if they didn’t unfairly discarded them

In reply to Ewart

What, pray tell, is Frank Worrell doing in that list??

In reply to VoopsandOut

Frank Worrell was a former Jamaica captain and Boys Town Senior Cup player who spent a good portion of his adult life living in Jamaica.

I presume he is on Ewart's list for the same reason Teddy Griffiths is!

In reply to jacksprat

OK, therefore not Jamaican born or nationality but representing Jamaica. Got it. Would be interesting to rank them. I suppose Headley, Rowe, Gayle, Worrell, Adams as top 5 but who completes top 10?

Cleveland Davidson

Blackwood, Campbell (John), Russell, Bonner are not Jamaican? Asking a friend!

Thanks for the suggestions. I will add all those suggestions an d we have 59... although I believe some of these names were members of the Jamaica team as bowlers and not batsmen.

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In reply to Ewart

What about Desmond Lewis (West Indies

Wicket Keeper / Batsman?

In reply to Yadi

I have him on my list as a batsman. He has one of the highest TEST averages of all our bats. He was unfairly discarded from West Indies team.


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In reply to Ewart

Looks like Ja had the most if not the best batsmen in the WI


Now Bonnie and Blackie to continue the trend

My boy Jerry Reid

In reply to camos


Yes!


And Canute Barclay.



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I would humbly suggest that all players who have scored a century for Jamaica might be a more interesting list.

In reply to Ewart

Allie Binns

In reply to camos

JK Holt

In reply to sudden

The poster has no shame, Sir Frank a Barbadian is on the list, but not the son of Jamaicans, who left Australia to play for Jamaica.

Shawn Finley, Kennar Lewis, Gavin Wallace, Keith Hibbard, Dukes!

In reply to Ewart William Haye, Owen Allison

Rex Suckoo (sp)

In reply to Dukes

Agreed...this looks like a list of everybody who ever held a bat

In reply to newdread

And yet your name is not in that hallow hall

In reply to newdread

Not really, note the absence of Courtney Walsh

In reply to Wally-1

Owen Allison, a real good one, just couldn't break into the Jamaican team but a fine batsman he was.

no mention of Laurie Williams?

In reply to Ewart

A jamaican bloke at the ground saw me bat when I was a youth player,after the match he came to me and say "you bat just like a Jamaican batsman name Easton McMorris,he used to bat 25 overs fuh 10 runs".He wasn't too wrong,I was very defensive.

In reply to newdread

nope... Clem Thompson, Aaron Daley, Patrick Patterson

In reply to Dukes

Feel free!



......and welcome back from your hibernation.


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In reply to sudden


I have no problem with Frankie and Teddy being considered Yardies, but leave Blackie , he is 100% bajan.

In reply to ducks

Yes!





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In reply to granite




"Bull" McMorris at one time was dubbed "the strokeless wonder."

But he was one of the better opening bats. You could not get his wicket easily.


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In reply to Dukes

I would go further and suggest a double century!

In reply to Ewart

There was also a Breeze in the lineup, a batter, allrounder can't remember!

In reply to XDFIX

think it was Gareth . his dad was an administrator i think

In reply to sudden

I was a bowler strictly....and not one of any consequence either

Speaking as a yardie...90% of those names, no one has ever heard.

In reply to JoeGrine

Everton Mattis.

In reply to Yadi

An elegant batsman.

In reply to Yadi

TriniD was just about tuh post dis. Elegence...

The five most elegant Jamaican bastmen I ever saw were:

1) Lawrence Rowe
2)
3) Marlon Samuels
4) Samuel Haye
5) Everton Mattis

2 - deliberately left open, Rowe was that far ahead.

In reply to JoeGrine

#2 and i dont think he has been mentioned before on this thread


Xavier Marshall. the X man commeth

In reply to sudden

Noting the water down quantity. We into quality.

In reply to JoeGrine

I think Pinnie makes that elegant list, but he does so after Dujon.


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In reply to Ewart

Sublime is not something I would use to describe Dujon, however, I respect your view. "Pinnie" absolutely, add him to the elegant list.

In reply to JoeGrine

Richard Staple was street and lane more elegant than Marlon Samuels

In reply to FanAttick

Only saw him once. Didn't see anything on that occasion to list him. For you to say he was more elegant that Samuels is saying a lot as Samuels has elegance in spades AND nickname!

In reply to JoeGrine

I would add Richard Staple to that list-perhaps even more elegant than Marlon Samuels-but he never scored too many runs but he would give you the prettiest 20 runs you would ever see!


FanAttick- Just saw your post afterwards

In reply to jacksprat

Staple must have been that good then as you're the second person to mention him.

Perhaps the one time I saw him he didn't even make that 20

In reply to JoeGrine

Richard Staple was rated very highly but when I saw him he did not make much runs.

He was then eclipsed by none other than the man who became rated as the best batsman in the world, Jimmy Adams. (Before the blow to his face).Jamaicans used to call him "Mr. Reliable." And he fully deserved that title.


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In reply to jacksprat

Agreed. Staple was the original 20-sinting

Shame we didn’t have smartphones in those days...

In reply to JoeGrine

Peter Jeffrey Dujon as well.

In reply to Trinidave

He was mentioned previously, however, he is not in the same elegance class as those listed plus Pinnock and seemingly Staple.
Dujon, was an attractive striker of the ball but elegance carries more nectar.

In reply to Trinidave

I thought the gap was left for Walsh.

In reply to culpepperboy

Walsh's range was too limited.

His elegance was confined to the 'Leave Alone' category.

George Powell the opener, all brute nasty power.

In reply to XDFIX

1.George Headley 344* in 1932
2.Charlie Passailaugue 261* in 1932
3.Marlon Samuels 250*in 2011
4.Jermaine Blackwood 248 in 2020
5..Maurice Foster 234 in 1977
6.Lawrence Rowe 227 in 1972
7.Chris Gayle 219 in 2004
8..Easton McMorris 218 in 1967
9. George Headley 211 in 1928
10.Chris Gayle 208* in 2001
11.. Neville Bonitto 207* in 1953
12.Brendan Nash 207 in 2011
13.Brendan Nash 205* in 2012
14. Frank Martin 204* in 1927
15. Lawrence Rowe 204 in 1974
16.George Headley 203* in 1947
17..James Adams 203* in 1998
18. Karl Nunes 200* in 1927
19. Cleveland Davidson 200* in 1989
20..Leon Garrick 200* in 2001

List of First Class Double Centuries for Jamaica

Brendan Nash has two of those...pleasant surprise.

In reply to Raggs

Brendan should not have been discarded.


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In reply to Raggs

saw that guy making 98 before lunch at Bina against

Islands!

that's like 26-27 overs.

In reply to camos

Bushman batting..

In reply to camos

Bushman batting..

Cleveland Davidson

Respect to Westmoreland's finest and one who was integral in the formation of the Poughkeepsie cricket club, NY.

In reply to Raggs

was the first batsman I know who played for Ja and was not playing senior cup.

There was another guy ,I think Luther Kelly who actually made a ton before lunch!

In reply to nitro

wasn't Laurie Williams also from Westmoreland, died too early!

In reply to nitro

Blackwood from Westmoreland also even though he came up playing for Hanover.