Selective recognition in the West Indies? We salute you A.I. Kallicharan!

Kalli could light up a room with his laughter!!  ::LOL:: ::LOL:: ::LOL::

He was always someone you could approach.  Simple fella!

Kallicharan's last Test was in January 1981

For County Championship matches
1981 averaged 45.47
1982 averaged 68.32 Wisden cricketer of the Year Top the county championships for runs and 3rd for averages
1983 averaged 55      second to Lloyd by 22 runs as secon best West indian
1984 averaged 48 scoring 2012 runs

In all those years Windies played about 29 Tests which Kalli should have played at least....He should have played at least 95 tests!

He would have been only 35 in 1984 but yet he was never recalled!

How shocking is that?

From 85 to 90 he was on the slide but had  agood season in 1986 averaging 52.

Kallicharan, for Warwicks, scored the most 100 in a season 1984, in their history, with 9!

A feat equalled by Lara 10 years later.

Kalli is all time 8th in warwicks runs aggregate with 18,150!

(Babu 11,615)

Kalli is 3rd in the all time list of Warwicks centurions with 52 tons!

Quote:Kallicharran was born in Paidama, a rural settlement in Berbice, Guyana. Belonging to the Guyanese Indian stock, he perhaps got introduced to a fair approximation of a cricket team fairly early in his life. With four brothers and six sisters, he was one of 11 siblings.

Quote:His father Isaac was a coconut farmer who captained the Port Mourant side, the club from which hailed cricketers of the stature of Rohan Kanhai, Basil Butcher, Joe Solomon and the Christiani brothers, Cyril and Robert.

Quote:As a boy, Kallicharran would sneak off from the farm to play cricket — learning the game in the streets with sticks, branches or planks as bat. The technique that went on to charm so many around the world, including austere Englishmen of the old school, was largely self-taught.

Quote:High scores for the Port Mourant Club and at school level saw him making it to the Guyanese side at 16, the youngest-ever to represent the island in Shell Shield.

Quote:The first county which set sights on the young Kallicharran was Glamorgan, but a postal strike played havoc to their plans of signing him. Alan Smith, the Warwickshire captain, flew to Guyana and brought the young man to Warwickshire in 1971.