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Like so many high-class batsmen, Alvin Kallicharran picks the ball up extremely early. He excels in the hook, the pull, and the cut shots, while his driving on either side of the wicket is clear and certain.

Alvin Kallicharran – A Gem of a Batsman

This is Alvin Kallicharran's benefit year with Warwickshire — a landmark in a career that has included countless delightful innings and innumerable dressing-room laughs from this amusing little West Indian. Alvin has always been deservedly popular on the English...
A marketing student turned professional cricketer, Alvin Kallicharran is associated with two record-making partnerships.

Alvin Kallicharran – A Marketing Student Turned Professional Cricketer

A marketing student turned professional cricketer, Alvin Kallicharran is associated with two record-making partnerships. He and Lawrence Rowe put on 249 runs at Bridgetown in 1973-74, the highest second-wicket stand for West Indies against England. These two also scored...
These days, Vivian Richards is a conquering hero. Many West Indian parents like to name their children with a flourish, and when Mr. and Mrs. Richards, of St John's, Antigua, called the son born to them in 1952 Isaac Vivian Alexander, they gave him plenty to live up to.

Vivian Richards – A Conquering Hero

These days, Vivian Richards is a conquering hero. Many West Indian parents like to name their children with a flourish, and when Mr. and Mrs. Richards, of St John's, Antigua, called the son born to them in 1952 Isaac...
Brian Lara 501 Not Out - Climbs the Highest Peak of First-Class Cricket

Brian Lara 501 Not Out – Climbs the Highest Peak of First-Class Cricket

On the day that thousands commemorated the 50th anniversary of D-Day in Normandy, across the channel at Edgbaston the cricket world was applauding another battle, one led single-handedly by West Indies batsman Brian Lara.  In a County Championship match,...
A player of enormous confidence, he never wears a helmet; perhaps he wants to accept the challenges of the short-pitched ball from the fast bowler! That's his style.

Sir Viv Richards – The Most Fearsome Master Blaster

West Indies Sir Viv Richards fell into the same category as Chappell another player who has always wanted to be the master of bowlers. I don't think lies are as technically sound as Chappell was, but there's not a...

Vivian Richards – Indeed A Dream Cricketer

The sight of Vivian Richards standing bare-chested in the visiting team's balcony at the Ferozeshah Kotla stadium is still vivid in one's memory. It was November 1983 in Delhi and people were clothed in woolens. But Viv Richards was...
Tied Test Australia vs West Indies 1959-60

Tied Test Australia vs West Indies 1959-60

There was a lot of tension and excitement during the tied test match between West Indies and Australia, which you wouldn't believe. Having scored a single, Wally Grout faced the first ball of the last over, which was to...
Brian Lara Rules the World with Chanceless 375

Brian Lara 375 – Rules the World with Chanceless Innings

Brian Lara 375 - Rules the World with Chanceless Innings at St John’s Antigua 18, April 1994 Test in West Indies against England stunned the cricketing world. The most romantic of all Test cricket records, the highest individual Test...
CL Walcott makes a spectacular save in the Trent Bridge Test, 195o. On the left is H.B.Stollmeyer

CL Walcott – Barbados and West Indies Wicket Keeper Batsman

Among athletes known to me, only Joe Louis equaled the West Indian wicket-keeper, CL Walcott, in his ability to give an impression of soporific tranquility, instantaneously shattered by a spasm of action so fast as to be almost invisible...
Alf Valentine had taken two wickets for 190 runs in his two first-class games before he was selected to tour

Calypso Cricket

Calypso Cricket - It all started in 1950 when Sonny Ramadhin and Alf Valentine took 18 wickets to spin West Indies to their first Test win at Lord's prompting the Trinidadian songster's Lord Kitchener, not that one) and Lord...

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Ben Hollioake – A Star Which Could Not Shine

Benjamin Caine Hollioake was born on 11 November 1977 in Melbourne Australia. However, the death of Ben Hollioake in Australia at the tragically young...

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