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Everton Weekes and the call of the inner artist

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Jul 5, 2020

Vaneisa Baksh

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Vaneisa Baksh has been studying West Indies cricket’s history for ages, and has been writing on the game for even longer. She has been admitted as a member of the Queen’s Park Cricket Club in Port-of-Spain, Trinidad, which recently opened its doors to females. She hasn’t become one of the boys yet, though.

Cricket was always the backdrop, but it was…

Everton Weekes and the call of the inner artist

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Jul 5, 2020

Vaneisa Baksh Close

Vaneisa Baksh has been studying West Indies cricket’s history for ages, and has been writing on the game for even longer. She has been admitted as a member of the Queen’s Park Cricket Club in Port-of-Spain, Trinidad, which recently opened its doors to females. She hasn’t become one of the boys yet, though.

Cricket was always the backdrop, but it was hardly…

Remembering Everton Weekes: a grin, a drink, a joke, and all those runs

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I wrote the first of a number of “Dear Everton” columns in December 1979. The columns afforded an opportunity for levity and were addressed to a mythical Caribbean character named Everton Valentine who had migrated to Notting Hill in London. I chose the name in honour of two great characters of West Indies cricket: champion batsman Everton Weekes and left-arm spinner Alf Valentine.

I…

Dattajirao Gaekwad relives his duels with Everton Weekes

Dattajirao Gaekwad is the only living Indian cricketer to have played against the immortal ‘Three Ws’ of West Indies cricket.

A compact batsman and a brilliant fielder, Dattajirao, who captained India in 1959 and is the father of former India opener Aunshuman Gaekwad, was part of the Indian team that toured the West Indies in 1953. Now 92, his memory still sharp, Dattajirao spoke about Everton…

Dattajirao Gaekwad relives his duels with Everton Weekes

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Dattajirao Gaekwad is the only living Indian cricketer to have played against the immortal ‘Three Ws’ of West Indies cricket.

A compact batsman and a brilliant fielder, Dattajirao, who captained India in 1959 and is the father of former India opener Aunshuman Gaekwad, was part of the Indian team that toured the West Indies in 1953. Now 92, his memory still sharp, Dattajirao spoke about E…

Players across generations pay tributes to a Everton Weekes

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Cricket’s biggest names, most of whom could hear only stories of Sir Everton Weekes’ exploits from the bygone era, on Thursday remembered the “great” batsman and a “greater human being” in glowing tributes after he died aged 95.

ICC: As one of the remarkable ‘Three Ws’, along with Sir Clyde Walcott and Sir Frank Worrell, who together struck 39 Test centuries, he played an important hand…