Ralph Archibald Legall (1 December 1925 – 2003) 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 ...

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er who played in four

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s in

1953 Events January * January 6 – The Asian Socialist Conference opens in Rangoon, Burma. * January 12 – Estonian émigrés found a Estonian government-in-exile, government-in-exile in Oslo. * January 14 ** Marshal Josip Broz Tito i ...

. Legall played as a wicket-keeper and middle-order batsman for

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from 1946-47 to 1957-58. His highest score was 68, the top score in Trinidad's first innings of their victory over

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in 1954-55. He replaced

Alfred Binns Alfred Philip Binns (24 July 1929 – 29 December 2017) was a West Indian cricketer from Jamaica who played in five Tests between 1953 and 1956. He played as wicketkeeper in all five Tests. Career Binns attended St. George's College and repr ...

as the West Indies wicket-keeper after the First Test against

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in 1952-53 and played the last four Tests of the series. In 1960 he played for

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in the Lancashire League. He then went to Canada. Legall also played

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tennis: for the

British Caribbean The British West Indies (BWI) were colonized British territories in the West Indies: Anguilla, the Cayman Islands, Turks and Caicos Islands, Montserrat, the British Virgin Islands, Antigua and Barbuda, The Bahamas, Barbados, Dominica, Grenada, ...

team against the USA and Canada in 1954 and 1956. He is one of only two people to play both Test cricket and Davis Cup tennis. The other is

Cotah Ramaswami Cotah Ramaswami - sometimes written as Cota or Cotar - (born 16 June 1896 – presumed dead (possibly January 1990)) was a double sports international who represented India in both cricket and tennis. Family and early life Ramaswami came fro ...

of India. By a coincidence, Ramaswami managed the Indian team against which Legall played his Test matches. There is mystery surrounding Legall's death: he is variously reported to have died in

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, and probably in February 2003.''Wisden'' 2007, p. 1561.

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