Kenneth Basil Trestrail (26 November 1927 – 24 December 1992) was a West Indian and Canadian

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er. He was a right-handed batsman and a leg-break bowler. He played 18 first-class matches for his native

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in the 1940s, earning selection for the

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on their tour to

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. He did not play in any of the

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on that tour, but played in eighteen of the first-class tour matches, as well as scoring a hundred in each innings against Durham at Ashbrooke in Sunderland. He later settled in

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and returned to England in

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with the touring

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, playing four further first-class matches. He is the great uncle of Trinidadian songwriter Victoria Trestrail.

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