Everton de Courcy Weekes (born 26 February1925, Pickwick Gap, Westbury, St Michael, Barbados) was a West Indiancricketer. February 26 is the 57th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. ... 1925 was a common year starting on Thursday (link will take you to calendar). ... The Caribbean or the West Indies is a group of islands in the Caribbean Sea. ... For more coverage of cricket, go to the Cricket portal. ...
He finished his career with a batting average of 58.61, and set a then world-record of five consecutive hundreds in a series against India.
He was the last of the Windies famous 3 W's (Weekes, Walcott and Worrell) to be knighted, in 1995. Note: This page shall also refer to West Indian womens national cricket team, and junior teams (representing West Indies) but unless explicitly mentioned, it refers to the senior (main) cricket team West Indies cricket team shirt (ODI, 2004) The West Indian cricket team, also known colloquially as The Windies... Clyde Leopold Walcott (born 17 January 1926) is a former West Indian cricketer. ... Sir Frank Mortimer Maglinne Worrell (born 1 August 1924, Bridgetown Barbados, died 13 March 1967, Kingston, Jamaica) was a West Indian cricketer and Jamaican senator. ...
Weekes, one of the three Ws of cricket history along with Clyde Walcott and Sir Frank Worrel, rated Tendulkar amongst the six greatest batsmen ever.
Weekes was, of course, referring to another little genius, Sunil Gavaskar, who made 10,122 runs from 125 Tests with 34 hundreds, which included 13 against the fearsome West Indian fast bowlers.
Weekes remembers Kambli, a childhood chum and contemporary of Tendulkar, as a player with tremendous potential and feels sorry for the left-hander for not being able to continue for a long time in international cricket.
Weekes was an aggressive batsman with all the strokes in the book, but he was particularly devastating on the off-side.
EvertonWeekes went on from that match to set a record which still stands: in the subsequent tour of India later that year, his next four scores were 128, 194, 162 and 101, making a total of five consecutive test centuries!
Like Bradman, EvertonWeekes eschewed hitting sixes - not because of the inability to do so, (a batsman of his strength and with his sense of timing could hardly lack the necessary skill) but because he deemed it to be an unwarranted risk.
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