Lawrence George Rowe was born on 8 January 1949 and is a former West Indian cricketer.
12 Facts About Lawrence Rowe
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Lawrence Rowe then made history on his Test match debut against New Zealand at Sabina Park, Kingston in 1972, scoring 214 and 100 not out, the first time that a cricketer had scored a double and single century on Test debut.
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Lawrence Rowe became one of only four West Indians to have scored a triple century, with the others being Garfield Sobers, Chris Gayle and Brian Lara.
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Lawrence Rowe was a West Indies batting "hero" in the days before Viv Richards.
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Lawrence Rowe was known to whistle while he batted though he seemed to be a bit injury prone.
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Lawrence Rowe featured for the Windies in 11 One Day Internationals.
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Lawrence Rowe played for Derbyshire in the English County Championship and joined World Series Cricket, where he scored 175 in one match for the WSC West Indies XI.
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Lawrence Rowe took the opportunity to apologise on behalf of the rebel West Indian team, saying:.
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However, after much protest Lyndel Wright, the Jamaica Cricket Association president, stated their decision was revoked, after Lawrence Rowe stated publicly that he saw nothing wrong with his decision to tour apartheid South Africa.
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At one game Lawrence Rowe hit a ball so cleanly that it followed a level trajectory like a guided missile over the boundary for six.
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Lawrence Rowe smashed it flat into the stand at square leg; it travelled most of the way at head height.
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Lawrence Rowe's 302 took only 430 hectic deliveries, with 36 further boundaries.