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Pascall Roberts
Pascall Ronald Roberts (15 December 1937 – 20 June 2011) was a Trinidad cricketer who played first-class cricket from 1961 to 1979. He toured with the West Indian cricket team in England in 1969 but did not play Test cricket. A versatile left-arm bowler who could open the bowling and also bowl orthodox spin, Roberts made his first-class debut for Trinidad in 1960-61, taking 5 for 79 and 3 for 61 against Barbados. In his third match later that season he took 5 for 111 and 3 for 77 against E.W. Swanton's XI. Roberts played as a professional for Lowerhouse in the Lancashire League in 1963, when he made 283 runs at 17.48 and took 60 wickets at 12.98, and 1965, when he made 234 runs at 10.63 and took 70 wickets at 13.81. He played regularly for Trinidad throughout the 1960s, as well as appearing for North Trinidad in the Beaumont Cup, which was in those years a first-class competition. He was called for throwing during the 1966-67 Shell Shield. He took 13 wickets at an aver ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Port Of Spain, Trinidad
Port of Spain (Spanish: ''Puerto España''), officially the City of Port of Spain (also stylized Port-of-Spain), is the capital of Trinidad and Tobago and the third largest municipality, after Chaguanas and San Fernando. The city has a municipal population of 37,074 (2011 census), an urban population of 81,142 (2011 estimate) and a transient daily population of 250,000. It is located on the Gulf of Paria, on the northwest coast of the island of Trinidad and is part of a larger conurbation stretching from Chaguaramas in the west to Arima in the east with an estimated population of 600,000. The city serves primarily as a retail and administrative centre and it has been the capital of the island since 1757. It is also an important financial services centre for the CaribbeanCIA World Factbook Trinidad an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shell Shield
The Regional Four Day Competition, formerly known as Shell Shield and Carib Beer Cup, is the first-class cricket competition in the West Indies. It is administered by the Cricket West Indies. In the 2013-2014 season the winner of the tournament was awarded the WICB President's Trophy while the winners of the knockout competition were awarded the George Headley/Everton Weekes trophy. In a few previous seasons the winners of the tournament were awarded the Headley/Weekes trophy. From the 2017–18, the Competition had been sponsored by Digicel and was known as the Digicel Four Day Championship. In 2019-20, the competition has been known as the West Indies Championship. The competition is contested between seven Caribbean teams and, on occasion, touring sides from other countries. Four of the Caribbean teams, Barbados, Guyana, Jamaica and Trinidad and Tobago, come from individual countries while two teams, the Leeward Islands and the Windward Islands, which previously competed t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2011 Deaths
This is a list of deaths of notable people, organised by year. New deaths articles are added to their respective month (e.g., Deaths in ) and then linked here. 2022 2021 2020 2019 2018 2017 2016 2015 2014 2013 2012 2011 2010 2009 2008 2007 2006 2005 2004 2003 2002 2001 2000 1999 1998 1997 1996 1995 1994 1993 1992 1991 1990 1989 1988 1987 See also * Lists of deaths by day The following pages, corresponding to the Gregorian calendar, list the historical events, births, deaths, and holidays and observances of the specified day of the year: Footnotes See also * Leap year * List of calendars * List of non-standard ... * Deaths by year {{DEFAULTSORT:deaths by year ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1937 Births
Events January * January 1 – Anastasio Somoza García becomes President of Nicaragua. * January 5 – Water levels begin to rise in the Ohio River in the United States, leading to the Ohio River flood of 1937, which continues into February, leaving 1 million people homeless and 385 people dead. * January 15 – Spanish Civil War: Second Battle of the Corunna Road ends inconclusively. * January 20 – Second inauguration of Franklin D. Roosevelt: Franklin D. Roosevelt is sworn in for a second term as President of the United States. This is the first time that the United States presidential inauguration occurs on this date; the change is due to the ratification in 1933 of the Twentieth Amendment to the United States Constitution. * January 23 – Moscow Trials: Trial of the Anti-Soviet Trotskyist Center – In the Soviet Union 17 leading Communists go on trial, accused of participating in a plot led by Leon Trotsky to overthrow Joseph Stalin's regime, and assas ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tobago Cricket Team
The Tobago cricket team has represented Tobago in various matches since 1958. In the 1978–79 season it played first-class cricket in the Texaco Cup. Tobago played their first match in 1957–58, a one-day match against the touring Pakistanis. Over the next 15 years several international teams played Tobago. All the matches took place at the Shaw Park ground in Scarborough. In 1964–65, in another one-day match, Tobago dismissed the touring Australians for 142 and in response made 145 after being 84 for 8. For the 1978–79 season the first-class Texaco Cup was expanded to include Tobago as well as the four regional Trinidad sides that had competed in 1977–78. None of the Tobago players had played first-class cricket before. Tobago drew their first match, then lost their next three, two of them by an innings. They finished at the bottom of the table. All four matches were played on the Trinidad mainland. The leading wicket-taker was Alston Daniel, with 11 wickets at an avera ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
South Trinidad Cricket Team
The South Trinidad cricket team played first-class cricket from 1959 to 1979, competing in the Beaumont Cup and its successor competition the Texaco Cup. South Trinidad played North Trinidad annually for the Beaumont Cup from 1925–26 to 1957–58, when the matches were not considered first-class, and from 1958–59 to 1969–70, when they had first-class status. Of these 12 first-class matches, North Trinidad won five and the rest were drawn. South Trinidad's highest score in this period was by Leo John, who scored 120 out of a team total of 215 in 1967–68, and the best bowling figures were 5 for 37 by Kerry Maloney in 1961–62. Beginning in 1970–71, East Trinidad and Central Trinidad made up a four-team first-class competition, which was renamed the Texaco Cup in 1971–72. In 1978–79 Tobago joined the competition. That was the final season in which it had first-class status. South Trinidad won the title in 1972–73 and 1975–76. In this period South Trinidad played ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
East Trinidad Cricket Team
The East Trinidad cricket team played first-class cricket from 1971 to 1979, competing in the Beaumont Cup and its successor competition the Texaco Cup. When the Beaumont Cup, which had been contested by South Trinidad and North Trinidad since 1925–26, was expanded in 1970–71, East Trinidad and Central Trinidad were added to make up a four-team first-class competition, which was renamed the Texaco Cup in 1971–72. In 1978–79 Tobago joined the competition in its final season of first-class status. East Trinidad were successful immediately, winning four of their first five matches and taking the title in 1971–72 and 1976–77. In all they played 22 matches, with six wins, seven losses and nine draws. Their highest score was 128 by Alvin Corneal in their victorious 1971–72 final against South Trinidad, when he scored 50 out of a team total of 140, then 128 out of a total of 209, while Imtiaz Ali took 10 for 69 in the match (7 for 27 and 3 for 42), East Trinidad's bes ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Raphick Jumadeen
Raphick Rasif Jumadeen (born 12 April 1948) is a former West Indian international cricketer who played in twelve Test matches Test match in some sports refers to a sporting contest between national representative teams and may refer to: * Test cricket * Test match (indoor cricket) * Test match (rugby union) * Test match (rugby league) * Test match (association football) ... from 1972 to 1979. He scored a total of 84 runs in his Test career, including 56 in one innings. References External links * 1948 births Living people West Indies Test cricketers Trinidad and Tobago cricketers South Trinidad cricketers West Indies cricket team selectors {{Trinidad-cricket-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Inshan Ali
Inshan Ali (25 September 1949 – 24 June 1995) was a West Indian international cricketer who played in 12 Test matches from 1971 to 1977. Biography Born in Preysal, Trinidad and Tobago, of Indian descent, Ali was the second of eight children to Asgar, a manual labourer, and Naimoon Ali. Ali was a left-arm unorthodox spin bowler who made his first-class cricket debut for South Trinidad against North Trinidad on 15 April 1966, aged just 16 years and 202 days. He took three wickets for 89 runs. In his second match, for Trinidad and Tobago against Windward Islands, Ali took 5/32, and, following further good performances, was selected in the West Indies Board President's team to play the touring Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) side. Ali continued to perform well, if unpredictably, at domestic level and was often a trump card for Trinidad at the spin friendly Port-of-Spain, leading to him becoming the first person from central Trinidad to play Test cricket for the West Indies when ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jack Noreiga
Jack Mollinson Noreiga (15 April 1936 – 8 August 2003) was a West Indian cricketer who played in four Test matches in 1971. An off-spinner, he took 9 for 95 in India India, officially the Republic of India (Hindi: ), is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by area, the second-most populous country, and the most populous democracy in the world. Bounded by the Indian Ocean on the so ...'s first innings in the Second Test in Port of Spain in 1970-71. He remains the only West Indian to take nine wickets in a Test innings. External links * Obituary 1936 births 2003 deaths West Indies Test cricketers Trinidad and Tobago cricketers North Trinidad cricketers East Trinidad cricketers {{Trinidad-cricket-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1969–70 Shell Shield Season
The 1969–70 Shell Shield season was the fourth edition of what is now the Regional Four Day Competition, the domestic first-class cricket competition for the countries of the West Indies Cricket Board (WICB). The tournament was sponsored by Royal Dutch Shell, with matches played from 30 January to 21 March 1970. Five teams contested the competition – Barbados national cricket team, Barbados, the Combined Islands cricket team, Combined Islands, Guyana national cricket team, Guyana, Jamaica national cricket team, Jamaica, and Trinidad and Tobago national cricket team, Trinidad and Tobago. The Combined Islands team, comprising players from the Leeward Islands cricket team, Leeward and Windward Islands cricket team, Windward Islands, was returning for the first time since the 1966–67 Shell Shield season, 1966–67 season. They failed to win a match, while at the top of the table Trinidad and Tobago won three of their four matches, claiming their maiden title. Trinidadian batsman ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1968–69 Shell Shield Season
The 1968–69 Shell Shield season was the third edition of what is now the Regional Four Day Competition, the domestic first-class cricket competition for the countries of the West Indies Cricket Board (WICB). The tournament was sponsored by Royal Dutch Shell, with matches played from 17 January to 6 March 1969. Six teams contested the tournament – Barbados, British Guiana, Jamaica, the Leeward Islands, Trinidad and Tobago, and the Windward Islands. The Leeward and Windward Islands both played fewer matches than the other teams, although the results from their matches still counted towards the title. Three teams – Jamaica, Trinidad and Tobago, and Barbados – were undefeated (either winning or drawing all their matches), but Jamaica had more points than the other teams, thus winning their inaugural title. Barbadian batsman Robin Bynoe led the tournament in runs, while Guyanese pace bowler Philbert Blair was the leading wicket-taker. Points table ;Key * W – Outright win ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
