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Full name Everton de Courcy Weekes
Born February 26, 1925, Pickwick Gap, Westbury, St Michael, Barbados
Current age 83 years 317 days
Major teams West Indies, Barbados
Batting style Right-hand bat
Bowling style Legbreak
Other Referee, Coach
Relations Cousin - KH Weekes, Son - DA Murray, Nephew - DJ Weekes, Grandson - RL Hoyte

Batting and fielding averages

Mat

Inns

Runs

Ave

100

Tests

4455

207

58.61

First-class

152

241

12010

304*

55.34

124

Bowling averages

Mat

Inns

Balls

Runs

Wkts

BBI

BBM

Ave

Econ

Tests

122

1/8

77.00

3.78

122.0

First-class

152

1125

731

4/38

43.00

3.89

66.1

Career statistics

Test debut

West Indies v England at Bridgetown, Jan 21-26, 1948 scorecard

Last Test

West Indies v Pakistan at Port of Spain, Mar 26-31, 1958 scorecard

Test statistics

First-class span

1944/45 - 1963/64

ICC match referee statistics

Test debut

India v Sri Lanka at Lucknow, Jan 18-22, 1994 scorecard

Last Test

England v New Zealand at Manchester, Jun 30-Jul 5, 1994 scorecard

Test matches

Test statistics

ODI debut

India v Sri Lanka at Rajkot, Feb 15, 1994 scorecard

Last ODI

India v Sri Lanka at Jalandhar, Feb 20, 1994 scorecard

ODI matches

ODI statistics

Short, stocky but endearing, Everton Weekes, one of the three Ws, was quick-footed and possessed an admirable variety of strokes, almost all of them attacking. His debut against England in 1947-48 was unremarkable, and he was dropped to make way for George Headley, although he was restored when Headley had to drop out. The Kingston crowd wanted John Holt instead of Weekes, and he was booed throughout the England innings. He responded with 141, and on the tour of India which followed he scored 779 runs at 111.28 and set a world record of five successive hundreds, the highest being 194 at Bombay. It would have been six were it not for a controversial run-out decision at Madras. In England in 1950 his rich form continued with 2310 runs at 79.65 on the trip, including a triple hundred against Cambridge, although in the Tests he made only 338 at 56.33. His form returned from superlative to good on the tour to Australia which followed, but against India at Port-of-Spain in 1952-53 he made 207 in the first Test and another big hundred on the same ground in the third Test. He scored heavily against England in 1953-54, and in New Zealand in 1955-56 he hammered 940 runs at 104.44 in eight first-class matches. His tour of England in 1957 was blighted by poor health, and aside from a gutsy 90 on a lively Lord's wicket, when he was struck a painful blow on the hand, he disappointed. Against Pakistan in 1957-58 he returned to form but he was increasingly troubled by a thigh injury, and after an unsuccessful operation he decided to retire even though he was still in his early 30s. Weekes also played in English League cricket, toured with various Commonwealth sides, coached in Barbados, was awarded the MBE and the CBE, and also served time as an ICC referee. In 1995 he was the last of the three Ws to be knighted.
Martin Williamson

Apr 19, 2007

Sir Garfield Sobers, Sir Everton Weekes, Kathryn Ward (for her father Denis Atkinson) and Denis Depeiaza (for his father Clairmonte Depeiaza) receive awards as West Indies cricket record holders © Getty Images

Aug 13, 2006

Sir Everton Weekes, Lance Gibbs and Clive Lloyd discuss the impending encounter © Joseph Jones

Feb 26, 2004

Everton Weekes © Getty Images

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