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Rohan Kanhai — The Most Exciting Batsman in the World, England Tour 1963

West Indies vs England

1963-07-01

Rohan Kanhai of British Guiana was, on the 1963 England tour, the most exciting batsman in the world — a right-hander capable of playing every shot in the manual and several that were not, including his famous falling sweep that he played while sitting on the ground having lost his footing. On the 1963 tour he scored 497 runs in five Tests at 49.70, including a dazzling 77 at Headingley and 92 at The Oval.

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🔥Serious

Frank Worrell — The First Black West Indies Captain, 1960

West Indies

1960-09-15

After more than three decades of West Indies Test cricket being captained exclusively by white men, Frank Worrell was appointed as the regular captain for the 1960-61 tour of Australia. The decision followed a year-long campaign by C.L.R. James in the Trinidad newspaper The Nation, which framed the colour bar in West Indies captaincy as a colonial relic that had to fall. Worrell would justify the choice with a tour that revived Test cricket and earned the team a half-million-strong farewell parade in Melbourne.

#frank worrell#clr james#west indies

⭐Mild

Cricket in Trinidad — Queen's Park and the West Indian Game Takes Root, 1840s

Trinidad cricket clubs

1845-06-01

Cricket in Trinidad developed rapidly in the 1840s under the influence of the British colonial administration and the plantocracy, with the Queen's Park Savannah in Port of Spain emerging as the principal ground. The game in this era was rigidly racially stratified — played by white colonials and soldiers — but the open savannah format and the social prestige attached to cricket meant it spread gradually to the mixed-race and Afro-Caribbean community, laying the ground for the West Indian cricket revolution of the twentieth century.

#roundarm-era#early-victorian#1840s