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Learie Constantine Joins Nelson — Lancashire League, 1929

Nelson Cricket Club / Lancashire League

1929-04-01

In the spring of 1929 Learie Constantine signed a contract with Nelson Cricket Club in the Lancashire League — the first West Indian Test cricketer to take a full professional contract in English league cricket. He stayed with Nelson until 1937 and inspired a wave of Caribbean professionals to follow.

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Learie Constantine — A Decade in the Lancashire League, 1929-39

Nelson Cricket Club v Lancashire League sides

1929-04-27

From 1929 to 1937 Learie Constantine was the professional at Nelson Cricket Club in the Lancashire League, a contract that paid him substantially more than Test cricket and quietly turned him into the most famous Caribbean man in Britain. He took 793 league wickets at 9.90 and scored 4,397 runs at 37, won Nelson seven titles in eight years, and shifted the social geography of black professionalism in pre-war England. His decade in Nelson was as influential as anything he did in Test whites.

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