Sir Clyde Leopold Walcott KA, GCM, OBE was a West Indian cricketer.
24 Facts About Clyde Walcott
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Clyde Walcott was born in New Orleans, St Michael, Barbados.
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Clyde Walcott's father was a printing engineer with the Barbados Advocate newspaper.
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Clyde Walcott was educated at Combermere School and, from the age of 14, at Harrison College in Barbados.
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Clyde Walcott took up wicket-keeping at Harrison College and learned to bowl inswingers.
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Clyde Walcott first played first-class cricket for Barbados in 1942, as a 16-year-old schoolboy.
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Clyde Walcott made his first impression in February 1946, when, on a matting wicket, he scored 314 not out for Barbados against Trinidad as part of an unbroken stand of 574 for the fourth wicket with schoolfriend Frank Worrell, setting a world record for any partnership in first-class cricket that remains a record in the West Indies.
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Clyde Walcott played his first Test in January 1948, the drawn 1st Test against England at Bridgetown.
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Clyde Walcott became a good slip fielder, and was an occasional fast-medium bowler.
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Clyde Walcott scored a century in both innings of two Tests in the series against Australia in 1955, when he became the first batsman to score five centuries in a single Test series, totalling 827 runs from 10 innings.
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Clyde Walcott was dismissed for a duck only once in Tests, lbw to Ray Lindwall in the 1st Test against Australia at Brisbane in 1951.
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Clyde Walcott played for Enfield in the Lancashire League from 1951 to 1954, and moved to Georgetown in Guyana in 1954, to be the cricket coach for the British Guiana Sugar Producers' Association.
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Clyde Walcott played first-class cricket for British Guiana, and by 1956 he was captaining the side.
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Clyde Walcott was a Wisden Cricketer of the Year in 1958.
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Clyde Walcott was awarded the OBE in 1966 for services to cricket in Barbados, Guyana and the West Indies.
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Clyde Walcott managed and coached various cricket teams, and was later a cricket commentator in Barbados.
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Clyde Walcott was President of the Guyana Cricket Board of Control from 1968 to 1970, and then a vice-president of the Barbados Cricket Association.
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Clyde Walcott was chairman of the West Indies selectors from 1973 to 1988, and managed the West Indies teams that won the Cricket World Cup in 1975 and 1979, and in 1987.
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Clyde Walcott was president of the West Indies Cricket Board from 1988 to 1993.
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Clyde Walcott was awarded the Barbados Gold Crown of Merit in 1991, and became a Knight of St Andrew in the Order of Barbados in 1993.
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Clyde Walcott was an International Cricket Council match referee in three matches in 1992, and became chairman of the International Cricket Council from 1993, the first non-English person and the first black man to hold the position.
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Clyde Walcott was knighted for services to cricket in 1994.
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Clyde Walcott became the ICC Cricket Chairman in 1997, in charge of the ICC Code of Conduct, and oversaw investigations into allegations of match fixing.
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Clyde Walcott published two autobiographies, Island Cricketers in 1958 and Sixty Years on the Back Foot in 1999.