Everton Weekes
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| Full name | Everton DeCourcy Weekes | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born |
26 February 1925 Saint Michael, Barbados |
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| Batting style | Right-handed | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Bowling style | Right arm leg break | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Role | Occasional wicket-keeper | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Relations |
David Murray (son) Ken Weekes (cousin) Ricky Hoyte (grandson) |
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| Test debut (cap 59) | 21 January 1948 v England | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Last Test | 31 March 1958 v Pakistan | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| 1944–1964 | Barbados | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Source: CricketArchive, 8 January 2009 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Sir Everton DeCourcy Weekes, KCMG, GCM, OBE (born 26 February 1925) is a leading former West Indian cricketer. Along with Frank Worrell and Clyde Walcott, he formed what was known as "The Three Ws" of West Indian cricket.
Born in a wooden shack on Pickwick Gap in Westbury, Saint Michael, Barbados, near Kensington Oval, Weekes was named by his father after English football team Everton (when Weekes told English cricketer Jim Laker this, Laker reportedly replied "It was a good thing your father wasn't a West Bromwich Albion fan.") Weekes is unaware of the source of DeCourcy, his middle name, although he believes there was a French influence in his family.
Weekes's family was poor and his father was forced to leave his family to work in the Trinidad oilfields when Weekes was eight. He did not return to Barbados for eleven years. In the absence of his father, Weekes and his sister were raised by his mother Lenore and an aunt, whom Weekes credits with his successful upbringing. Weekes attended St Leonard's Boys' School, where he later bragged that he never passed an exam (although he would later successfully study Hotel Management) and preferred to concentrate on sport. In addition to cricket, Weekes was also a keen football player, representing Barbados. As a boy Weekes assisted the groundsmen at Kensington Oval and often acted as a substitute fielder in exchange for free entry to the cricket, giving himself the opportunity to watch leading international cricketers at close range. At age 13 Weekes began playing for Westshire Cricket Club in the Barbados Cricket League (BCL). He would have preferred to have played for his local club, Pickwick, but the club only catered to white players.
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