Sheldon Anthony Gomes (18 October 1950 – 15 September 2020) was a cricketer who played first-class and

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for

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and other Trinidad teams from 1969 to 1983. Gomes' highest first-class score was 213 against

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in the 1976-77

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. That was also his most prolific first-class season, with 633 runs at an average of 70.33 and three centuries. His brother

Larry Gomes Hilary Angelo Gomes (born 13 July 1953) is a Trinidad and Tobago and West Indies cricket team, West Indian former cricketer. Cricket career Gomes toured England with the West Indian youth team in 1970 and made his first-class cricket, first-cla ...

played

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for the

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. Gomes died in

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, on 15 September 2020.

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