Ernest Albert Vivian "Foffie" Williams (10 April 1914, Bank Hall, St Michael, Barbados – 13 April 1997,

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) was a

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er who played in four

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and 1948. In the second innings of the First Test at

in 1948, Williams hit his first six balls to the boundary: 6, 6, 4, 4, 4, 4. He reached 50 in half an hour and finished with 72 in 63 minutes.''

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'' 1998, pp. 1442–43. His highest first-class score was 131 not out for

against

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in 1935–36, when he and

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shared an eighth-wicket partnership of 255, which remains a West Indian first-class record; he also took three wickets in each innings, opening the bowling. He became the chief sports officer in Barbados.

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