‘A tactical and shrewd leader’
Michael Conrad Joey Carew ....true servant of WI cricket
The following feature on the late Michael Joey Carew was written by Nasser Khan and published in the Queens Park Oval's Parkite magazine as one of the Legends of T&T Cricket. Carew, the former West Indies and T&T cricket captain died on Saturday. Michael Conrad Carew, “Joey” as he was well known, spent virtually his entire life in and around the world of cricket. His introduction to first class cricket at age 19 was when he was called to play for T&T versus the visiting E W Swanston’s team in 1956. It was only after some strong regional performances that the late Sir Frank Worrell used his diplomatic persuasions to see Joey Carew into the very competitive 1963 West Indies team to tour England for which he repaid his skipper with a tally of 1,060 runs on that tour. In his Test career which spanned from 1963 to 1972, he played 19 Tests and had a highest score of 109 and blasted five 50s with his typical left handed swashbuckling style of batting. With his economical style of off break bowling, he captured just eight wickets as he was not very often called upon to bowl given the likes of Gibbs, Valentine, Hall and Griffith in the bowling attack. His highest first class score was 182 and he scored 13 centuries, 43 half centuries and captured 108 wickets with a best of 5 for 28.
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