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Full name Everton de Courcy Weekes
Born February 26, 1925, Pickwick Gap, Westbury, St Michael, Barbados
Current age 83 years 186 days
Major teams West Indies,Barbados
Batting style Right-hand bat
Bowling style Legbreak
Other Referee, Coach
Relations Cousin - KH Weekes,Son - DA Murray,Nephew - DJ Weekes,Grandson - RL Hoyte
Batting and fielding averages
Mat
Inns
NO
Runs
HS
Ave
100
50
6s
Ct
St
Tests
48
81
5
4455
207
58.61
15
19
2
49
0
First-class
152
241
24
12010
304*
55.34
36
54
124
1
Bowling averages
Mat
Inns
Balls
Runs
Wkts
BBI
BBM
Ave
Econ
SR
4w
5w
10
Tests
48
10
122
77
1
1/8
1/8
77.00
3.78
122.0
0
0
0
First-class
152
1125
731
17
4/38
43.00
3.89
66.1
0
0
Career statistics
Test debut
West Indies v England at Bridgetown, Jan 21-26, 1948 scorecard
Last Test
West Indies v Pakistan at Port of Spain, Mar 26-31, 1958 scorecard
Test statistics
First-class span
1944/45 - 1963/64
ICC match referee statistics
Test debut
India v Sri Lanka at Lucknow, Jan 18-22, 1994 scorecard
Last Test
England v New Zealand at Manchester, Jun 30-Jul 5, 1994 scorecard
Test matches
4
Test statistics
ODI debut
India v Sri Lanka at Rajkot, Feb 15, 1994 scorecard
Last ODI
India v Sri Lanka at Jalandhar, Feb 20, 1994 scorecard
ODI matches
3
ODI statistics
Profile
Short, stocky but endearing, Everton Weekes, one of the three Ws, was
quick-footed and possessed an admirable variety of strokes, almost all of them attacking. His debut against England in 1947-48 was unremarkable, and he was dropped to make way for George Headley, although he was restored when Headley had to drop out. The Kingston crowd wanted John Holt instead of Weekes, and he was booed throughout the England innings. He responded with 141, and on the tour of India which followed he scored 779 runs at 111.28 and set a world record of five successive hundreds, the highest being 194 at Bombay. It would have been six were it not for a controversial run-out decision at Madras. In England in 1950 his rich form continued with 2310 runs at 79.65 on the trip, including a triple hundred against Cambridge, although in the Tests he made only 338 at 56.33. His form returned from superlative to good on the tour to Australia which followed, but against India at Port-of-Spain in 1952-53 he made 207 in the first Test and another big hundred on the same ground in the third Test. He scored heavily against England in 1953-54, and in New Zealand in 1955-56 he hammered 940 runs at 104.44 in eight first-class matches. His tour of England in 1957 was blighted by poor health, and aside from a gutsy 90 on a lively Lord's wicket, when he was struck a painful blow on the hand, he disappointed. Against Pakistan in 1957-58 he returned to form but he was increasingly troubled by a thigh injury, and after an unsuccessful operation he decided to retire even though he was still in his early 30s. Weekes also played in English League cricket, toured with various Commonwealth sides, coached in Barbados, was awarded the MBE and the CBE, and also served time as an ICC referee. In 1995 he was the last of the three Ws to be knighted.
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