Clyde Walcott
West Indian cricketer
Died when: 80 years 221 days (967 months)Star Sign: Capricorn
Sir Clyde Leopold Walcott KA, GCM, OBE (17 January 1926 – 26 August 2006) was a West Indian cricketer.Walcott was a member of the "three W's", the other two being Everton Weekes and Frank Worrell: all were very successful batsmen from Barbados, born within a short distance of each other in Bridgetown, Barbados in a period of 18 months from August 1924 to January 1926; all made their Test cricket debut against England in 1948.
In the mid-1950s, Walcott was arguably the best batsman in the world.In later life, he had an active career as a cricket administrator, and was the first non-English and non-white chairman of the International Cricket Council.
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