Combined Islands Cricketers - VIV Richards, Len Harris, Andy Roberts, Vance Amory, Irvine Shillingford, Elquemedo Willett, Grayson Shillingford (Paperback)

Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Viv Richards, Len Harris, Andy Roberts, Vance Amory, Irvine Shillingford, Elquemedo Willett, Grayson Shillingford, Norbert Phillip, Mike Findlay, Hugh Gore, Derick Parry, Alford Corriette, Ignatius Cadette, Livingstone Sargeant, Michael Camacho, Lockhart Sebastien, Victor Eddy, Enoch Lewis. Excerpt: Alford Corriette (born 23 August 1948 in Montserrat ) was a West Indies cricketer who played 24 matches for the Combined Islands and the Leeward Islands in a career that lasted from 1972 until 1976. A right-handed batsman and right-arm medium pace bowler, Corriette scored 851 runs and claimed 44 wickets in his first-class career. References (URLs online) A hyperlinked version of this chapter is at Personal information Anderson Montgomery Everton 'Andy' Roberts (born 29 January 1951 on the island of Antigua in the West Indies ) is a former West Indian cricketer . He was an excellent fast bowler, twice taking seven wickets in an innings of a Test match . In England, he played first class cricket for Hampshire County Cricket Club and Leicestershire County Cricket Club. Andy Roberts formed part of the "quartet" of West Indian fast bowlers from the mid-Seventies to the early Eighties (the others being Michael Holding, Joel Garner and Colin Croft ) that had such a devastating effect on opposition batsmen at both Test and One Day International level. He was also part of the West Indies team that won the first two Prudential World Cups in England in 1975 and 1979. Despite an excellent record in Tests his international career was relatively short and ended in 1983. Imran Khan (former captain Pakistan national cricket team) once described a ball bowled to him by Andy Roberts as the fastest and most terrifying he had ever faced. One of his trademarks was the use of two different bouncers . O...