Donald James Weekes (born 8 May 1930) is a former English

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er. Weekes was a right-handed batsman who bowled right-arm

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. He was born at

Horsham Horsham is a market town on the upper reaches of the River Arun on the fringe of the Weald in West Sussex, England. The town is south south-west of London, north-west of Brighton and north-east of the county town of Chichester. Nearby to ...

Sussex Sussex (), from the Old English (), is a historic county in South East England that was formerly an independent medieval Anglo-Saxon kingdom. It is bounded to the west by Hampshire, north by Surrey, northeast by Kent, south by the English ...

. Weekes made a single first-class appearance for

against Oxford University at University Parks, Oxford in 1952. In a drawn match, he bowled a total of six wicketless overs, while in his only batting innings he was dismissed for a duck by Henry Joynt. This was his only major appearance for Sussex. His uncle is the West Indian Test cricketer

Sir Everton Weekes Sir Everton DeCourcy Weekes, KCMG, GCM, OBE (26 February 19251 July 2020) was a cricketer from Barbados. A right-handed batsman, he was known as one of the hardest hitters in world cricket. Weekes holds the record for consecutive Test hundred ...

, while his father-in-law,

Leonard Bates Leonard Thomas Ashton Bates (20 March 1895 – 11 March 1971) was an English cricketer. He was a right-hand batsman and right-arm medium pace bowler who played for Warwickshire. Born in the pavilion at Edgbaston Cricket Ground where his father, ...

, played first-class cricket for Warwickshire.

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Donald Weekes
at CricketArchive 1930 births Living people People from Horsham English cricketers Sussex cricketers English people of Barbadian descent Cricketers from West Sussex {{england-cricket-bio-1930s-stub