Tyrone Ranjit Etwaroo (born 23 August 1959) is a Guyanese former first-class cricketer who represented

Berbice Berbice is a region along the Berbice River in Guyana, which was between 1627 and 1792 a colony of the Dutch West India Company and between 1792 to 1815 a colony of the Dutch state. After having been ceded to the United Kingdom of Great Britain ...

Guyana Guyana ( or ), officially the Cooperative Republic of Guyana, is a country on the northern mainland of South America. Guyana is an indigenous word which means "Land of Many Waters". The capital city is Georgetown. Guyana is bordered by the ...

and an International XI in first-class cricket.

Life and cricket career

Etwaroo was born at Port Mourant in August 1959, where he was educated at Corentyne Comprehensive High School. He debuted in first-class cricket for

against Demerara in the 1977–78 Jones Cup at Georgetown. He was selected to play first-class cricket for

in 1979–80 Shell Shield, making his debut against Barbados. In that same season he made his debut in List A one-day cricket for Guyana against the Windward Islands. Etwaroo played first-class and List A cricket for Guyana until 1984, making fifteen first-class and ten List A appearances. He toured Pakistan with an International XI in 1981–82, making on first-class and three List A appearances, He played a key role in the International XI in the first one-day match against Pakistan, scoring 22 runs opening the batting, which proved important in a low-scoring match. Etwaroo played a total of 23 first-class matches, scoring 1,131 runs at an average of 31.41. He made two centuries, with a high score 198 which he made in his final first-class match for Berbice against Demerara in the 1983–84 Jones Cup, an occasion on which he captained Berbice. In one-day cricket he made thirteen appearances, scoring 222 runs with a high score of 47. He also played

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in England for Northumberland from 1981–83, making seventeen appearances in the

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and one appearance in the MCCA Knockout Trophy. He later emigrated to the United States, returning to Guyana annually with teams to take part in exhibition matches. He founded the Port Mourant Reunion Cricket Match, alongside his brothers Reginald and Romain, who both played first-class cricket. His uncle is the former West Indies cricketer

Rohan Kanhai Rohan Babulal Kanhai (born 26 December 1935) is a Guyanese former cricketer of Tamil Indo-Guyanese origin , who represented the West Indies in 79 Test matches. He is widely considered to be one of the best batsmen of the 1960s. Kanhai featur ...

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