1. Franz Copeland Murray Alexander OD, known as Gerry Alexander, was a Jamaican cricketer who played 25 Test matches for the West Indies.
16 Facts About Gerry Alexander
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Gerry Alexander was educated at Wolmer's Boys' School, which was founded in 1729 and is one of the oldest schools in the West Indies.
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Gerry Alexander played for the Cambridge cricket team in both 1952 and 1953, winning a Blue in both years for appearing in the University Match against Oxford.
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Gerry Alexander won a Blue at football, and went on to win an England amateur cap and an FA Amateur Cup winner's medal in 1953 playing for Pegasus.
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Gerry Alexander played cricket for Cambridgeshire in 1954 and 1955.
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Gerry Alexander represented Great Britain at football in 1956 in a qualifying game versus Bulgaria on 12 May 1956 at Wembley.
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Gerry Alexander appeared in a trial match for the West Indies tour to England that summer, sharing a stand of 134 with Wes Hall.
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Gerry Alexander only appeared in the final two Tests of that series, Rohan Kanhai being preferred as a makeshift keeper for the first three.
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Gerry Alexander distinguished himself in neither match, scoring 0 not out, 11,0 and 0 and not keeping well, and West Indies lost both matches by an innings.
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Gerry Alexander performed better both as batsman and keeper, including playing an important innings of 57 in the second innings of the second Test.
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Against North Zone in the last match of the Indian leg of the tour, Roy Gilchrist, who in earlier matches had already shown a tendency to bowl beamers when angry or frustrated, unleashed a barrage of such deliveries against Swaranjit Singh, whom Gerry Alexander had known at Cambridge.
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Gerry Alexander had the consolation of finishing the series with 23 victims as wicketkeeper, equalling John Waite's world record.
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Gerry Alexander took the decision well, and was supportive of Worrell, who was a close friend.
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Gerry Alexander had a remarkably successful tour of Australia with the bat, scoring 60,5,5,72,0,108,63,87 not out, 11 and 73 in the Tests.
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Gerry Alexander's century at Sydney was an important factor in enabling West Indies to win, and was the only one of his first-class career.
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Gerry Alexander died on 16 April 2011 at the age of 82 in Orange Grove, Jamaica.