West Indies Cricket Fans

BallOil wrote:

Googley wrote:ah now see this. maps either showing he age or his cricketing knowledge! lol

i will be back to guess on some of these!

most likely age... jokin maps...

bwoy doh remind me about age. I am older by one year today. I better start growing younger soon!

how come man doh ansah the questions man! those are interesting questions. I was in the mood!

mapoui wrote:

BallOil wrote:

Googley wrote:ah now see this. maps either showing he age or his cricketing knowledge! lol

i will be back to guess on some of these!

most likely age... jokin maps...

bwoy doh remind me about age. I am older by one year today. I better start growing younger soon!

Happy Birthday Mapoui,...enjoy eh

I bet any money dat crissy over at sissy wud asnash thse questions in a snap!

the one about the Gomes, Shive type of bastman might give her pause but she shud be able to work him out!

but none of the big mouts' on all the other boards...not even Redbaron could ansah these save deh go do real research. but they will at a glance see the questions as valid, interesting and worth a shot

Happy Birthday Maps. enjoy some 1919

Googley wrote:Happy Birthday Maps. enjoy some 1919

1919 was a good year. it had a big dock-workers strike in Port of Spain.... a sort of precursor to 1937, the 1946 Moyne commission, Erc Williams in 1956, independence and even more labour strife and undemocratic legislation with the Industial Stabilisastion Act in 1965...from Williams himself, the "FATHER OF INDEPENDENCE'

there was 'activity' all over the westindies and BG which is why the Brits sent out their Moyne Commission.....

dont yu guys need to know allyuh histree....

those are sweet questions man. if deh did arks me dem questions I would have been digging all now.

anyhow I go ansah dem fuh allyuh......den let the thread go....

second question fuss question: How many captains westindies ever had in a tess series?

ansah - 4...in the first ever tess series to be played in the westindies in 1929-30 against England.

the captaisn were: Barbados E L G Hoad, Trinidad Nelson Betancourt, British Guiana M P Fernandes, Jamaica R K Nunes.

as their names suggest there were all westindians of white descent. in those days to the financial arrangements were diferent than they are today and this fact played no small part in the having different captains in ach territory.

this fact also resulted in lop-sided selection which saw a majority of territorial players for each island make-up the greater body of players for each tess match

fus' question second...the biggest total westindies ever faced to win at home or abroad?

ansah: 836 to win, at Sabina Park Jamaica, on April 3, 4, 5, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12...1930

thats right 9 days of test cricket which finished only because the British had to ketch a boat fuh England. they were playing to a finish.

england made 849..westindies made 286 but the Brits went back to bat anyway and made 272 for 9 dec...westindies then batted out to 408 for 5 when the game was called

mapoui wrote:Between 1926 and 1939 who were the top 3 westindian fast bowlers?

question #3

Herman Griffith barbados

George Francis British Guiana

Learie Constantine Trinidad

some people would still include George John and not constantine, but to stretch John all the way to 1939 as the question is framed, by the second world war marker, would be to..stretch it actually.

some migh even include Manny Martindale but he in my estimation was not as good or accompished as the first 3 listed

mapoui wrote:Question: who was the first Shive/Gomes-like great westindian batsman?

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ansah..Percy 'Tim' Tarilton Barbados, a westindian of European ancestry

CLR James said of him in BAB that while George Challenor was Tariltons superior in style Tarilton was the foremost westindian batsman of that age, first in solidity and dependability