Stanley Roy Goodridge (28 October 1928 – 29 September 2016) was a

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for

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from 1950 to 1954. A fast bowler, Stanley Goodridge made his first-class debut for Jamaica in 1950. In his fourth match, against

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, he took 5 for 73 in the second innings in a Jamaican victory. Two seasons later he took 5 for 158 against British Guiana. In his next match, against the touring Indians, he took 6 for 28 with "hostile and accurate" fast bowling in the first innings to dismiss them for 140. He played one further match for Jamaica in early 1954 before moving to

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to play as a professional for Seaham Park in the

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"Connie Mark: Community activist and Caribbean champion"
(obituary), ''

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'', 16 June 2007. Retrieved 29 October 2014. He played two non-first-class matches for

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in 1956. In one, he took five wickets against Yorkshire, all of

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ers.Durham v Yorkshire, 1956
Cricket Archive. He married in 1952 fellow Jamaican

Connie Mark Constance Winifred Mark, MBE, BEM (née McDonald, previously Goodridge; 21 December 1923 – 3 June 2007) was a Jamaican-born community organiser and activist. She served as a medical secretary in the Auxiliary Territorial Service in World War ...

MBE BEM (1923–2007), medical secretary and later an activist for West Indians in London, with whom he had a son and daughter. They later divorced.

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Stanley Goodridge at CricketArchive
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