West Indies worst ever Test batsman? - Printable Version +- Cricket Windies (https://cricketwindies.com) +-- Forum: Rally Around West Indies! (https://cricketwindies.com/forum-1.html) +--- Forum: We don't like cricket. We love it. (https://cricketwindies.com/forum-2.html) +--- Thread: West Indies worst ever Test batsman? (/thread-32049.html)

West Indies worst ever Test batsman? - dillinger10 - 08-08-2016 Poor Floyd Reifer. 8 of his 11 innings were single-figure scores. I think he has to be in contention for worst Test batsman ever. All numbers are post-World War II, a minimum of 10 innings, and excluding wicketkeepers. Re: West Indies worst ever Test batsman? - Googley - 08-08-2016 there is a lot of hope in Hope!  Re: West Indies worst ever Test batsman? - dillinger10 - 08-08-2016 Wasn't Bruce Pairaudeau a highly touted youngster? I seem to recall him putting up some big numbers in the Lancashire League, and then scored a century on his Test debut, but nothing after that. Re: West Indies worst ever Test batsman? - chairman - 08-08-2016 [quote author=dillinger10 link=topic=105689.msg708358#msg708358 date=1470672245] Wasn't Bruce Pairaudeau a highly touted youngster? I seem to recall him putting up some big numbers in the Lancashire League, and then scored a century on his Test debut, but nothing after that. [/quote] dilly i didnt realize you 90 8) 8) Re: West Indies worst ever Test batsman? - ketchim - 08-08-2016 http://guyana-cricket.com/article/catching-bruce-pairaudeau He was a teenaged prodigy for British Guiana, as it then was, scoring the first of his 11 first-class hundreds, 130 against Jamaica at Bourda in 1947, aged 16. In a golden era of West Indies batting, he had to wait until 1953 before he finally got a place in the Test team. He marked it with 115 in his debut innings, against India at the Queen’s Park Oval, sharing a partnership of 219 with Weekes  8) Re: West Indies worst ever Test batsman? - dillinger10 - 08-08-2016 [quote author=The Chairman link=topic=105689.msg708359#msg708359 date=1470672342] dilly i didnt realize you 90 8) 8) [/quote] Sadly, a bit before my time, but remember hearing about his exploits in the Lancashire Leagues. Re: West Indies worst ever Test batsman? - dillinger10 - 08-08-2016 [quote author=ketchim link=topic=105689.msg708363#msg708363 date=1470672723] http://guyana-cricket.com/article/catching-bruce-pairaudeau [/quote] Some more great tidbits in this feature article too: http://www.cricketcountry.com/articles/bruce-pairaudeau-frenchman-who-scored-hundred-on-west-indies-debut-and-led-a-side-to-plunket-shield-125226 A few highlights: [li]Pairaudeau made his First-Class debut against Trinidad at 15 years 335 days, then a Guyanese record (the record has subsequently been bettered by Ramnaresh Sarwan, who had started his First-Class career at 15 years 245 days).[/li] [li]One of the three Frenchmen to have played Test cricket (the other two being Andy Ganteaume and Richie Benaud: of course, he had missed John Benaud).[/li] [li]The third West Indian (after George Headley and Ganteaume) and first Guyanese to score a Test hundred on debut.[/li] [li]A champion table-tennis player[/li] Re: West Indies worst ever Test batsman? - Barbosa - 10-08-2016 sylvester joseph was bad and was touted as a star Re: West Indies worst ever Test batsman? - Kwami - 10-08-2016 [quote author=dillinger10 link=topic=105689.msg708347#msg708347 date=1470671612] Poor Floyd Reifer. 8 of his 11 innings were single-figure scores. I think he has to be in contention for worst Test batsman ever. All numbers are post-World War II, a minimum of 10 innings, and excluding wicketkeepers. [/quote] What is telling  from the above stats are that there is only two persons of Indo heritage . Indos are not allowed to fail , they are discarded very quickly but  Afros Windians are given long a run