Cyril Marcel Christiani (28 October 1913 – 4 April 1938) was a

West Indian A West Indian is a native or inhabitant of the West Indies (the Antilles and the Lucayan Archipelago). For more than 100 years the words ''West Indian'' specifically described natives of the West Indies, but by 1661 Europeans had begun to use it ...

cricket Cricket is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of eleven players on a field at the centre of which is a pitch with a wicket at each end, each comprising two bails balanced on three stumps. The batting side scores runs by striki ...

er who played in four

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in 1934/35. He played wicketkeeper in all four Tests of the 1934–35 series. Christiani died in 1938 of malaria. He had three brothers who played first-class cricket for British Guiana, one of whom was the Test cricketer

Robert Christiani Robert Julian Christiani (19 July 1920 – 4 January 2005) was a West Indian cricketer who played in 22 Tests from 1947–48 to 1953–54. At domestic level he played first-class cricket for British Guiana. Christiani played his first Test in ...

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