Sir Everton Weekes Passes Away!

It’s been a tough time for cricket fans across the world because you know that there hasn’t been any sporting action taking place. To make matters worse, we have a bit of news that you may not like as one of the legends of the game of cricket is no longer with us now. We’re talking about Caribbean iconic cricketer, Sir Everton Weekes.

48 Test matches for West Indies saw him scoring 4,000+ Test runs at the highest level which included 15 centuries and of course, 1 international wicket as well. His international career was a long one which spanned between Jan 1948 to March 1958, inspiring thousands and contributing much to the rise of cricket in the West Indies.

Sir Everton Weekes Passes Away!

He was part of the Three W’s squad which include him, Clyde Walcott and Frank Worrell, terrorizing opponents back in their time. On Wednesday, we got the bad news of Sir Weekes passing away at his home in Barbados, aged 95 years old! He was battling illness since a while and breathed his last a while back.


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He was the only cricketer to have scored 5 consecutive centuries in Test cricket and his batting average in the longest format was 58+ which is something not many have achieved even today. West Indies Cricket took to Twitter to break the news while sending out condolences to his friends, family and fans across the world:

Weekes was awarded the MBE and the CBE, while also serving time as an ICC referee and eventually, he was knighted in 1995, being the last to be knighted from the Three W’s. Thousands have already started pouring out tributes to the cricketer across social media, both current as well as former players, and let’s not forget the fans too:

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