RIP; Thelston Payne

openning 5/10/25, 9:00:33 PM

debut: 11/13/02
44,862 runs

Payne, a former St. Catherine, Barbados and West Indies wicketkeeper/batsman, died on Wednesday, May 10 at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital after a lengthy ailment. He was 66

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Narper 5/10/25, 9:07:32 PM

debut: 1/4/03
265,435 runs

In reply to openning

Payne, a former St. Catherine, Barbados and West Indies wicketkeeper/batsman, died on Wednesday, May 10 at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital after a lengthy ailment. He was 66.

Some of these guys retiring way too young

RIP Thelston Rodney O’Neale Payne.

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Narper 5/10/25, 9:30:15 PM

debut: 1/4/03
265,435 runs

“I am disappointed,” he said of his international career. “I personally felt that I could have played more Tests, not as a wicketkeeper but as a batsman, especially when other guys were failing and they had me just sitting down doing basically nothing.

“I thought I could have played as a batsman, especially when players like Clive Lloyd and Larry Gomes retired. I thought that would have been my chance, but it wasn’t so. I am a batsman who can keep, but it seems they thought I was only a wicketkeeper.”

Chrissy 5/10/25, 10:37:00 PM