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Sir Everton Weekes was the father to David Anthony Murray, a former West Indian cricketer who played in nineteen Tests and ten ODIs from 1973 to 1982. [57] Weekes passed 12,000 first-class runs in his final innings, becoming only the third West Indian, after Worrell and Roy Marshall, to do so. 2 talking about this. Apostle Everton Weekes is a man after God’s own heart, who dares to believe God’s Word! He was one of 12 debutants; seven from the West Indies (the others were Walcott, Robert Christiani, Wilfred Ferguson, Berkeley Gaskin, John Goddard and Prior Jones) and five for England; Jim Laker, Maurice Tremlett, Dennis Brookes, Winston Place and Gerald Smithson. Weekes retired from Test cricket in 1958 due to a persistent thigh injury but continued in first-class cricket until 1964, his final first-class match being against Trinidad and Tobago in Port-of-Spain, scoring 19 and 13. [78] For the 2000 edition of Wisden Cricketers' Almanack, Weekes was asked to be a member of the 100 strong electorate to select the Five Cricketers of the 20th Century. His Test place is assured. Everton DeCourcy Weekes est un joueur de cricket et dirigeant sportif barbadien né le à Pickwick Gap. Ce batteur débute avec l'équipe de Barbade en 1945 puis dispute son premier test-match en 1948 avec la sélection des Indes occidentales, qui représente divers territoire des Caraïbes, dont Barbade, au niveau international. Sir Garfield Sobers, Sir Everton Weekes, Kathryn Ward and Denis Depeiaza receive awards as West Indies cricket record holders during the ICC Cricket World Cup Super Eights match between West Indies... Obtenez des photos d'actualité haute résolution de qualité sur Getty Images [81] In January 2009 Weekes was one of 55 players inducted into the ICC Cricket Hall of Fame and will choose new inductees to the Hall of Fame.[82]. : SUPERNATURAL TESTIMONIES OF THE BLOOD! [53] His 1,518 runs scored in 1951 is still the club record and for 40 years was the League record, until broken by Peter Sleep. [51] He also played up for the crowds; batting in a match against Rawtenstall Cricket Club, Weekes waited until a ball had passed him before taking his left hand off his bat and hitting the ball around his back through square leg for four.[51]. "[39] Following the Australian tour, the West Indies visited New Zealand. Everton Weekes (né en 1925), joueur barbadien de cricket. [56] Additionally, Weekes was an excellent fielder, initially in the covers before moving into the slips,[56] and produced a training manual entitled Aspects of Fielding. Along with Frank Worrell and Clyde Walcott, he formed what was known as "The Three Ws" of the West Indies cricket team. Weekes would hold this record until June 1966 when surpassed by Gary Sobers. As a coach he was in charge of the Canadian team at the 1979 Cricket World Cup, and he was also a commentator and international match referee. Weekes est, avec ses compatriotes Frank Worrell et Clyde Walcott, l'un des « trois W » : nés à quelques mois d'intervalle à quelques hectomètres de distance, ils sont les principaux batteurs de l'équipe des Indes occidentales au cours des années 1950. Related Videos. He continued to play first-class cricket until 1964, surpassing 12,000 first-class runs in his final innings. modifier - modifier le code - modifier Wikidata. Clips from Cricket Legends of Barbados video series now available for purchase online at www.barbadoscricketicons.com "[48] During the tour Weekes became only the fourth West Indian to pass 10,000 first-class runs. La dernière modification de cette page a été faite le 14 novembre 2020 à 12:46. Toponyme. 365 Views. Weekes had a classic batting style, possessed a variety of shots on both sides of the wicket,[9] and is considered one of the hardest hitters in cricket history. [3], Weekes's family was poor and his father was forced to leave his family to work in the Trinidad oilfields when Weekes was eight. [13] In his first two first-class seasons Weekes was only a moderate success with the bat, averaging 16.62 by the end of the 1945/46 season[6] but began to find form in 1946/47, when, batting at number four, his maiden first-class century, 126 against British Guiana at Bourda, Georgetown,[14] and averaged 67.57 for the season. [10], Weekes left school in 1939, aged 14, and, not having a job, spent his days playing cricket and football. [58], Post-retirement, Weekes would make occasional appearances in charity and exhibition matches, including for the International Cavaliers. But, the pioneer’s halcyon days are behind him. In 1954 Weekes was chosen as the first tenured black captain of Barbados and the second black captain overall following Herman Griffith's temporary captaincy in 1941.[44]. [41], Weekes took his sole Test wicket in this series. In his next Test, the First against India, at Delhi, in November 1948 (the first by West Indies in India),[27] Weekes scored 128, followed by 194 in the Second Test in Bombay and 162 and 101 in the Third Test in Calcutta. Weekes passed 12,000 first-class runs in his final innings, becoming only the third West Indian, after Worrell and Roy Marshall, to do so. Everton Weekes (centre) was part of the middle-order trio for the West Indies in the 1940s and 50s, alongside Frank Worrell (left) and Clyde Walcott (right). Everton Weekes batting for the West Indies during the Third Test against England at Trent Bridge in Nottingham, 22 July 1950, when the West Indies side won the series. Ce batteur débute avec l'équipe de Barbade en 1945 puis dispute son premier test-match en 1948 avec la sélection des Indes occidentales, qui représente divers territoire des Caraïbes, dont Barbade, au niveau international. [38] Leading cricket commentator Alan McGilvray later wrote "I remain convinced to this day the bumpers hurled at Weekes had a definite influence on charging up West Indian competitiveness in future series. Weekes est, avec ses compatriotes Frank Worrell et Clyde Walcott, l'un des « trois W » : nés à quelques mois d'intervalle à quelques hectomètres de distance, ils sont les principaux batteurs de l'équipe des Indes occidentales au cours des années 1950. Son of the late Lenore Pounder. [72] Weekes' cousin Kenneth Weekes and son David Murray also played Test cricket for the West Indies, while his grandson Ricky Hoyte played first-class cricket for Barbados[73] and his nephew Donald Weekes played one first-class match for Sussex. [68] The New York Times referred to his style as "aggressive". Aux côtés de Sir Clyde Walcott et Sir Frank Worrell, Weekes a formé une formidable unité de frappeurs dans l’équipe des Antilles. [83] As of 2 July 2020, Weekes' career Test batting average of 58.61 is the ninth highest of all players with 30 or more innings. He would have preferred to have played for his local club, Pickwick, but the club only catered to white players. [4] 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)[5] and preferred to concentrate on sport. Everton DeCourcy Weekes est un joueur de cricket et dirigeant sportif barbadien né le 26 février 1925 à Saint Michael et mort le 1er juillet 2020[1]. [12], Weekes scored his maiden first-class half century in his next match, making 53 as an opener against Trinidad in March 1945 (where he also bowled for the first time in a first class match, conceding 15 runs in four wicketless overs). Everton Weekes, one of the famous three ‘Ws’ of West Indian cricket, passed away at the age of 95. [59] Weekes also participated in a Cavaliers tour of Rhodesia in the early 1960s, where he was the focus of racial discrimination, including having a match against a Bulawayo side moved to a substandard ground in a black area due to a local bylaw banning blacks from playing in a white area. [55] The Times described him as lightly bow-legged, with a wonderful eye, wrists the envy of any batsman, and feet always in the right place to play a shot,[47] and Richie Benaud stated that many Australians who saw Weekes in action said he was the closest batsman in style to the pre-World War II Donald Bradman. Weekes scored 88 and 117 retired and was selected for the tour,[6] making his first-class debut on 24 February 1945, aged 19 years, 364 days, for Barbados against Trinidad and Tobago at Queen's Park Oval, Port of Spain. [52] Weekes also had success with the ball, taking at least fifty wickets in all but one season at Bacup, including 80 wickets in 1956. [22] Worrell and Walcott are buried on ground overlooking the oval. [52], In all, Weekes played seven seasons in the Lancashire League between 1949 and 1958, passing 1000 runs in each. [34], In 1950 West Indies toured England and Weekes continued his excellent form, scoring 338 runs at 56.33 and playing a significant part in the West Indies 3–1 victory in the Test series, as well as 2310 first-class runs at 79.65 (including five double centuries, a record for a West Indian tour of England). [60] Feeling humiliated, Weekes and fellow West Indian Rohan Kanhai threatened to abandon the tour but remained following an apology from Rhodesian government officials. Our Cricket Correspondent, "Weekes and West Indies earn Honour in Defeat". [74], In June 2019, Weekes was placed in intensive care, after suffering a heart attack in Barbados. "[47] Denis Compton said of Weekes following this innings; "In every respect, it was the innings of a genius. He did not return to Barbados for eleven years. [49] Weekes was the first West Indian to pass 3,000 Test runs, in 31 Test matches, and the first to score 4,000 Test runs, in 42 Tests. Everton Weekes Pour les articles homonymes, voir Weekes. [51] His homesickness for Barbados was tempered by his landlady's potato pies and the presence of Worrell and Walcott, who were playing for League clubs Radcliffe and Enfield respectively. 16 relations: Barbade , Batteur (cricket) , Caraïbes , Clyde Walcott , Cricket , ESPNcricinfo , Frank Worrell , ICC Cricket Hall of Fame , Test cricket , Wisden Cricketer of the Year , 1945 en sport , 1948 en sport , 1951 en sport , 1958 en sport , 1995 en sport , 2009 en sport . West Indies in Australia and New Zealand 1951/52. A right-handed batsman, he was known as one of the hardest hitters in world cricket. [55] He was also compared to Bradman in his ability to keep the scoreboard moving and in using his feet to come down the pitch to slower bowlers. Batting at number three, Weekes made 35 and 25 as the match ended in a draw.[24]. In a tour match against Wellington, Weekes kept wicket in the absence of the injured Simpson Guillen and effected the only stumping of his first class career. [84] An oddity of his career was the first innings bias averaging 71.44 compared with 36.64 in the second, and only one of his fifteen tons came in the second innings. [33] The next season saw no Test cricket played by West Indies but Weekes scored 236* against British Guiana at Bridgetown, averaged 219.50 for the season and raised his career first-class average to 72.64. Sir Everton Weekes was the last of the famous 'Three Ws' of the West Indies side, and the only man to score five successive Test centuries. [30], By the end of the series, which also included a century against Ceylon, at that time a non-Test cricketing nation, and a half-century against Pakistan in a match not classed as a Test match, Weekes had a Test batting average of 82.46 and had passed 1,000 Test runs in his twelfth innings, one fewer than Donald Bradman. Miracle Baby. Spooner, P. (1998) "Sir Everton Weekes: My First Test", "West Indies Cricket: 3Ws Oval, Barbados". [59] In one 1967 match, aged 42, Weekes, out of practice and in borrowed gear, dominated a bowling attack half his age. [18], The name "Three Ws" was coined by an English journalist during the 1950 West Indian tour of England. [16] Weekes first met Walcott in 1941, aged 16, when they were team mates in a trial match. Sir Everton Weekes, who died earlier this week at the age of 95, holds the still unbeaten record of five successive centuries in test cricket. Sir Everton Weekes avec le grand Jim Laker d’Angleterre en 1957. Définitions de Everton Weekes, synonymes, antonymes, dérivés de Everton Weekes, dictionnaire analogique de Everton Weekes (français) Activité: Joueur de cricket. Everton Weekes est né à Saint Michael (paroisse de la Barbade) le 26/02/1925 et a aujourd'hui 95 ans. [50] When he first arrived in Bacup, Weekes was greatly affected by the cold and took to wearing an army great coat everywhere, to the extent it became part of his League image. Weekes then made 90 in the Fourth Test in Madras, being controversially run out[27] and 56 and 48 in the Fifth Test at Bombay. [2] Weekes played in 48 Test matches for the West Indies cricket team from 1948 to 1958. The Faith of the Son - Nothing is too Good for YOU! [21] The 3Ws Oval, situated on the Cave Hill campus of the University of the West Indies was named in their honour, and a monument to the three Ws is opposite the oval. [79], The former Prime Minister of Barbados Owen Arthur paid tribute to Weekes for his role in bringing social change to Barbados and the Caribbean, stating "Through his excellence on the cricket field, Sir Everton helped in a fundamental way to change Barbados for the better, forever, by proving that true excellence cannot be constrained by social barriers. [75] On 1 July 2020, he died at the age of 95 in Christ Church. Weekes retired from Test cricket in 1958 due to a persistent thigh injury but continued in first-class cricket until 1964, his final first-class match being against Trinidad and Tobago in Port-of-Spain, scoring 19 and 13. 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. The Three Ws – Frank Worrell, Clyde Walcott and Weekes – were all Barbadians born within 18 months of each other, not too far apart in distance and made … Weekes's performance in his next two Tests, in the words of Wisden, "did little to indicate the remarkable feats which lay ahead"[25] and was initially dropped from the Fourth and final Test of the series against England before an injury to George Headley allowed Weekes to return to the side. He is dead at 95. Everton Weekes, a promising 22-year-old with a gamut of runs in the previous season, hits 118 not out in a total of 514 for 4. [26] After being dropped on 0, Weekes scored 141, his maiden Test century[27] and was subsequently chosen for the West Indies tour of India, Pakistan and Ceylon. [4] 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. [46] Reporting on the final day of the 1957 Lord's Test where Weekes had made a rearguard 90 as the West Indies slumped to an innings defeat, The Times's cricket correspondent wrote "It had been a day to quicken one's feeling for cricket, glowing with freshness and impulse and friendliness, and it had belong to Weekes. His grandson, Ricky Hoyte, is also a former West Indian cricketer. [54] Weekes scored a total of 9,069 runs for Bacup at 91.61, with 25 centuries, including 195* against Enfield, a score that remains a League record,[51] as does his 1954 batting average of 158.25. [70] Weekes published his memoirs Mastering the Craft: Ten years of Weekes, 1948 to 1958 in December 2007, when it was announced that the book will be included in the curriculum of the Caribbean Civilisation Foundation course at the University of the West Indies. Additionally, as the leading West Indian batsman, Weekes was targeted by the Australian fast bowlers, in particular Ray Lindwall, subjecting him to Bodyline-like tactics of sustained short pitched bowling. Batting at number six, he scored 0 and eight as Barbados lost by ten wickets. Officier de l'ordre de l'Empire britannique, Chevalier commandeur de l'ordre de Saint-Michel et Saint-Georges, https://fr.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Everton_Weekes&oldid=176580360, Joueur de l'équipe des Indes occidentales de cricket, Joueur de l'équipe de la Barbade de cricket, Article avec une section vide ou incomplète, Article de Wikipédia avec notice d'autorité, licence Creative Commons attribution, partage dans les mêmes conditions, comment citer les auteurs et mentionner la licence. It is a landmark Test for West Indies. Goodman, T. "Lindwall's bowling to Weekes was overdone". Reviewing the series, the Sydney Morning Herald claimed that the Australian tactics to contain Weekes may have been just within the laws of cricket but infringed on the spirit of the game. Also a keen football player, representing Barbados the Three Ws – alongside sir Worrell. Led by the great George Headley, the name `` Three Ws, est décédé l. 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