Cricketers take partial in a use event in Kingston in 2007. The West Indies Cricket Board upon Sunday paid reverence to former captain as great as wicket-keeper Franz Copeland Murray ‘Gerry’ Alexander, who died upon Saturday during a age of 82.
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ST JOHN’S, Antigua as great as Barbuda (AFP) – The West Indies Cricket Board upon Sunday paid reverence to former captain as great as wicket-keeper Franz Copeland Murray ‘Gerry’ Alexander, who died upon Saturday during a age of 82.
WICB boss Dr Julian Hunte praised Alexander in recalling a grant he done during a important 1961 scored equally Test array in Australia underneath skipper Sir Frank Worrell.
“On interest of a WICB as great as all a cricket-loving people who await West Indies cricket we wish to magnify intense condolences to a family as great as desired ones of Gerry Alexander,” pronounced Dr Hunte.
“He was a brave in Jamaica as great as West Indies cricket as great as done a extensive grant to a diversion as captain as great as a player upon a field. He was an impulse to most people off a margin as well.
“He displayed a loyal adore as great as passion for West Indies cricket as great as gave his all for a great of a game. He was a cool as great as arguable personality of a West Indies group as great as a committed believer of a diversion during all levels.
“He excelled in a 1960-61 scored equally Test array in Australia as great as will regularly be remembered for a illusory purpose he played to assistance ‘save Test cricket’.”
During that debate Down Under, Alexander played in all 5 Tests, scoring 484 runs, that enclosed his usually first-class century in a Third Test during a Sydney Cricket Ground.
He additionally done 60 in a initial innings during a Gabba in Brisbane in a scored equally Test as great as played twenty-five Test matches.
Educated during Wolmer’s Boys School in Jamaica, Alexander additionally represented Cambridge University during cricket as great as football.
He died in Jamaica.
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