People From Saint Michael, Barbados: Rihanna, Clyde Walcott, Nolan Clarke, Tony Howard, Elvis Joseph
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Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher’s book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Rihanna, Clyde Walcott, Nolan Clarke, Tony Howard, Elvis Joseph, Greg Armstrong. Excerpt: Sir Clyde Leopold Walcott , KA , GCM (17 January 1926 – 26 August 2006) was a West Indian cricketer . Walcott was a member of the “three W’s”, the other two being Everton Weekes and Frank Worrell : all were very successful batsmen from Barbados , born within a short distance of each other in Bridgetown , Barbados in a period of 18 months from August 1924 to January 1926; all made their Test cricket debut against England in 1948. In the mid-1950s, Walcott was arguably the best batsman in the world. In later life, he had an active career as a cricket administrator, and was the first non-English and non-white chairman of the International Cricket Council .Early and private life Walcott was born in New Orleans (Bridgetown ), St. Michael , Barbados . His father was a printing engineer with the Barbados Advocate newspaper. He was educated at Combermere School and, from the age of 14, at Harrison College in Barbados. He took up wicket-keeping at Harrison College and also learned to bowl inswingers .He married Muriel Ashby in 1951. They had two sons together. His brother, Keith Walcott, and a son, Michael Walcott, both played first-class cricket for Barbados.Cricketing career Walcott first played first-class cricket for Barbados in 1942, as a 16-year-old schoolboy. He made his first impression in February 1946, when, on a matting wicket, he scored 314 not out for Barbados against Trinidad as part of an unbroken stand of 574 for the fourth wicket with schoolfriend Frank Worrell (255 not out), setting a world record for any partnership in first-class cricket that remains a record in the West Indies.He played his first Test in January 1948, the drawn 1st Test against England at Bridgetown . Powerfull…
People From Saint Michael, Barbados: Rihanna, Clyde Walcott, Nolan Clarke, Tony Howard, Elvis Joseph
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