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Clyde Walcott

Sir Clyde Walcott
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Personal information
Full name Clyde Leopold Walcott
Born (1926-01-17)17 January 1926
Saint Michael, Barbados
Died 26 August 2006(2006-08-26) (aged 80)
Barbados
Height 6 ft 2 in (1.88 m)
Batting style Right-handed
Bowling style Right arm fast-medium
Role Wicket-keeper
International information
National side
Test debut (cap 58) 21 January 1948 v England
Last Test 31 March 1960 v England
Domestic team information
Years Team
1954–1964 British Guiana
1941–1956 Barbados
Career statistics
Competition Test First-class
Matches 44 146
Runs scored 3,798 11,820
Batting average 56.68 56.55
100s/50s 15/14 40/54
Top score 220 314 not out
Balls bowled 1,194 3,487
Wickets 11 35
Bowling average 37.09 36.25
5 wickets in innings 0 1
10 wickets in match 0 0
Best bowling 3/50 5/41
Catches/stumpings 53/11 174/33
Source: CricketArchive, 8 January 2009

Sir Clyde Leopold Walcott, KA, GCM (17 January 1926 – 26 August 2006) was a West Indian cricketer. Walcott was a member of the "three W's", the other two being Everton Weekes and Frank Worrell: all were very successful batsmen from Barbados, born within a short distance of each other in Bridgetown, Barbados in a period of 18 months from August 1924 to January 1926; all made their Test cricket debut against England in 1948. In the mid-1950s, Walcott was arguably the best batsman in the world. In later life, he had an active career as a cricket administrator, and was the first non-English and non-white chairman of the International Cricket Council.

Walcott was born in New Orleans (Bridgetown), St. Michael, Barbados. His father was a printing engineer with the Barbados Advocate newspaper. He was educated at Combermere School and, from the age of 14, at Harrison College in Barbados. He took up wicket-keeping at Harrison College and also learned to bowl inswingers.

He married Muriel Ashby in 1951. They had two sons together. His brother, Keith Walcott, and a son, Michael Walcott, both played first-class cricket for Barbados.

Walcott first played first-class cricket for Barbados in 1942, as a 16-year-old schoolboy. He made his first impression in February 1946, when, on a matting wicket, he scored 314 not out for Barbados against Trinidad as part of an unbroken stand of 574 for the fourth wicket with schoolfriend Frank Worrell (255 not out), setting a world record for any partnership in first-class cricket that remains a record in the West Indies.


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