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Bethell hoping to dodge Barbados boos on West Indies homecoming

https://www.espncricinfo.com/story/jacob-bethell-hoping-dodge-barbados-boos-west-indies-homecoming-1453559

England allrounder set to feature on white-ball tour to country where he grew up Bethell was born and raised in Barbados but moved to the UK aged 12, attending Rugby School on a sports scholarship. He is one of three players in England's 14-man squad with links to Barbados, along with Phil Salt - who attended Harrison College, the same school as Bethell, while living there as a teenager - and Jofra Archer, who was born and raised there.

In the twilight of my life, brings back memories of my days at HC--was all boys --was a classmates and scholarship rival of (later PM) Sandiford ...in a visit to Bim a few years ago was proud to visit HC and show my now departed wife, children and grandchildren my name on a plaque in the assembly hall among the runners-up (Hawkins Prize winners) to the annual 5 Barbados scholars ( I was #6)

Can remember being let out early to walk with classmate to Kensington Oval to see the greats like Three Ws, Hutton, Lindwall, Neil Harvey, Miller, Sobers , Collie Smith etc
One of the thrills among us was during pre-game warm-up to try to identify the players since we would have seen only old photos as a guide.. " That couldn''t be Worrel, he is too short,, that must be Weekes .." etc

Fond memories

Lovely! I remember trying to (based on Black n White TV) why D'Olivera was "colored" as he looked no different from Titmus to me '68 tour. A chap at primary school named Basil tried to do everything Dolly did, to this day we call him Vera. By the way when Dean Headley turned out for England @Sabina he got huge cheers Ntini too but different circumstances. Even Devon Malcolm who wrecked us was cheered though.
Think Bethell will get some cheers

In reply to trev114

Nice post

Hayley Matthews is an HC graduate

In reply to trev114

In reply to culpepperboy

I was a useful but not excellent cricketer and only played a few house games...I remember Sandi once scored a century