maps...do you

remember this chap...
It is difficult to believe that a batsman as graceful yet impeccable as Michael Robin Bynoe had played only four Tests for West Indies. Picked as a teenage prodigy in the late 1950s, his career amounted to only four Tests over a span of eight years despite his talent.

It was not that Bynoe was an ordinary batsman by any standards. He was good enough to make it to the Barbados team that — armed with the Ws (Clyde Walcott, Frank Worrell and Everton Weekes), Garry Sobers and Conrad Hunte — could have given most Test sides a run for their money. He also bowled sporadic left-arm mixed-bag and was a fine fielder.
His First-Class career (that spanned 15 years) involved only 56 matches, which demonstrates lack of organisation of West Indian cricket of the era. He scored 3,572 runs at 41.05 with six hundreds and held 45 catches; from four Tests he scored 111 at 18.50 with a highest score of 48.

Early days
 
Born in Alleynedale, Black Rock, St Michael, Bynoe took to cricket at a very early age. He was the grandson of Henry Austin, a Barbadian batsman who played at the turn of the 20th century. Bynoe’s cousin Michael

It is difficult to believe that a batsman as graceful yet impeccable as Michael Robin Bynoe had played only four Tests for West Indies. Picked as a teenage prodigy in the late 1950s, his career amounted to only four Tests over a span of eight years despite his talent.



It was not that Bynoe was an ordinary batsman by any standards. He was good enough to make it to the Barbados team that — armed with the Ws (Clyde Walcott, Frank Worrell and Everton Weekes), Garry Sobers and Conrad Hunte — could have given most Test sides a run for their money. He also bowled sporadic left-arm mixed-bag and was a fine fielder.



His First-Class career (that spanned 15 years) involved only 56 matches, which demonstrates lack of organisation of West Indian cricket of the era. He scored 3,572 runs at 41.05 with six hundreds and held 45 catches; from four Tests he scored 111 at 18.50 with a highest score of 48.

did you do the write up Doorsra  ::confused::

no bro

well because I don't know that that was the general high impression held of Bynoe by the authorities of his day.  I dont think they thought of him as very good at all

if they did he would have made the side in a blink.  after all he is white and that really counted in those days.

and more than any other factor west indies needed an opener to go with Hunte. for that reason alone he would have made the side were he good enough

instead of Bynoe deh tried Kanhai, J K Holt, Carew, McMorris, Nurse, Willie Rodriguez..all between 1958 and 1967 when Bynoe was sent to India to open with Hunte.  Bynoe emerged in the late 19-fifties and by 1967 he was just 26, at the peak of his life and career.

his greatest chance to make the west indies team, coincided with his best years and he was not selected. west indies were in desperate need for what he did..open bat.. and he still did not make.  something does not compute..between reality and that write-up

Bynoe gave Guyana a real hard time in the Shell Shield era !

I recall he was part of the Bs ....a whole heap in the XI 

Boyce , Brancker et al

Burton , though born in Barbados migrated to British Guiana because of Racism...  to get selected in the W.I. XI 

Tommie Burton .

www.espncricinfo.com/westindies/content/player/51417.html

William Burton, a fast bowler, struggled to make his mark as he was pf mixed race and lacked the background to gain entry to Barbados's only non-white club. He worked as a practice bowler for Pickwick CC and was used in practice matches to sharpen up white batsmen chosen to represent the island

Burton reads like a man after my own heart.

if I get lucky I will make a pantheon of such west indians..the fighters, those who rather risk social ignominy in standing up  for right, for integrity, for self..refusal to take the shiiite.

I intend to make a glory of such people for all to see and celebrate

In 1899 he emigrated to Demerara which had far less strict rules on colour :

other promising coloured players took the same route ~


And today , dem have a deportation bench for my Country ...ungrateful  >

that bench must be the same Bajan fellas who make Desmond Haynes line up for hours outside Kensington to get into to see the cricket

hahahahaha...bajans rale chupid !

I see Dessie threaten to remove he name from de Stand !  :-[