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Platform that laid the foundation* By Tony Cozier - Chin - 01-27-2016
Platform that laid the foundation*
Published on Jan 26, 2016, 9:12 pm AST
By Tony Cozier
ICONS: Sir Frank Worrell, left, and Jeffrey Stollmeyer.
Jeffrey Stollmeyer, former Test captain, later board president, regarded it as 'probably the most significant development in West Indies cricket.' Allan Rae, Stollmeyer's one-time opening partner and his successor as president, termed it 'the missing link in the chain'.
Today marks 50 years since the inauguration of the Shell Shield the first annual first-class tournament encompassing all six West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) members – Barbados, Guyana, Jamaica, Trinidad and Tobago and the Leeward and Windward Islands, initially joined as the Combined Islands.