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Fearless Freddo birthday ! - ketchim - 11-11-2022
Birth of the hard-hitting West Indian left-hander Roy Fredericks
1942
Dashing openers are ten-a-penny in the modern age, but in the days when
openers blocked and middle-order batters attacked,the West Indian
left-hander Roy Fredericks, who was born today, was a revelation.
His blistering 169 against Dennis Lillee and Jeff Thomson
on a Perth flyer in 1975-76 was one of the most audacious innings
ever played in a Test, and though Fredericks was only 5ft 6in tall,
he gave the ball a fearful whack
Fearless Freddo birthday ! - ketchim - 11-11-2022
Fredericks played 59 Tests in all, bowing out against Pakistan
in Jamaica in 1976-77 with a typically flamboyant 83.
[size=5] He later became sports minister of his native Guyana.
Fredericks died of cancer in New York in September 2000.[/size]