Slow left-armer Elquemedo Willett was the first man from the Leeward Islands to play for West Indies when he made his debut as a 19-year-old against Australia in 1972-73. He took two wickets, and five in the next two Tests - including his best of 3 for 33 at Port-of-Spain. In was enough to ensure he toured England in 1973, where he took 30 wickets but was unable to break into the Test side. He then toured India and Pakistan in 1974-75, taking two wickets in each of his Tests. But in an era when selectorial consistency was not to the fore, another chance never came, and with the advent of West Indies all-pace attack, he faded into the shadows, although he carried on playing for another 14 seasons. While his impact on the field was limited, his inclusion in the West Indies side had a massive impact on cricket in the Caribbean's smaller islands, where players had hitherto felt ignored. 

Martin Williamson

Derick Parry was an offspinner whose batting was almost good enough to classify him as an allrounder - he ended with a career average of 26.86 without ever making a hundred. He didn't pull up too many trees in his 12-Test career, but the fourth Test in Trinidad against Australia in 1977-78 was his finest hour by a long way. Parry dug West Indies out of a hole with a Test-best 65 in the second innings, then took 5 for 15 - the last four all bowled - as Australia collapsed to 94 all out. It was Parry's only five-for, and it gave West Indies the Frank Worrell Trophy. His chance came about because of the Packer defections. His debut started poorly - he was dismissed first ball, and then his first delivery was a wide. But he rallied with a second-innings fifty, and was selected to tour India in 1978-79 but didn't enjoy a happy trip. He managed 170 runs in the six Tests and took nine wickets, but nevertheless remained in the squad for trips to Australia and New Zealand, England, and Pakistan. The return of the World Series players and the plethora of fast bowlers ended his international career, and his disenchantment caused him to throw in his lot with the rebel West Indies side which toured South Africa in 1982-83 and 1983-84. He received a life ban from the West Indies board, although he played for Cambridgeshire for several seasons. 


Keith Arthurton

Keith Lloyd Thomas Arthurton
Born February 21, 1965, Charlestown, Nevis
Major teams West Indies, Buckinghamshire, Leeward Islands, Marylebone Cricket Club
Batting style Left-hand bat
Bowling style Slow left-arm orthodox

Batting and fielding averages

	Mat	Inns	NO	Runs	HS	Ave	BF	SR	100	50	4s	6s	Ct	St
Tests	33	50	5	1382	157*	30.71	3396	40.69	2	8	145	17	22	0
ODIs	105	93	20	1904	84	26.08	2822	67.46	0	9	132	19	27	0
First-class	129	200	25	7926	200*	45.29			19	47			68	0
List A	172	157	31	3937	118	31.24			3	20			45	0

Bowling averages

	Mat	Inns	Balls	Runs	Wkts	BBI	BBM	Ave			4w	5w	10
Tests	33	19	473	183	1	1/17	1/17	183.00			0	0	0
ODIs	105	44	1384	1159	42	4/31	4/31	27.59			3	0	0
First-class	129		2913	1193	31	3/14		38.48				0	0
List A	172		3339	2461	96	4/25	4/25	25.63			8	0	0

Career statistics

Test debut	England v West Indies at Leeds, Jul 21-26, 1988 scorecard
Last Test	England v West Indies at Nottingham, Aug 10-14, 1995 scorecard
Test statistics
ODI debut	Pakistan v West Indies at Sharjah, Oct 22, 1988 scorecard
Last ODI	Pakistan v West Indies at Bristol, May 16, 1999 scorecard
ODI statistics
First-class span	1985/86 - 1999/00
List A span	1985/86 - 2000/01

Profile

Stuart Williams

Stuart Clayton Williams
Born August 12, 1969, Government Road, Nevis
Major teams West Indies, Leeward Islands, Nevis
Playing role Batsman
Batting style Right-hand bat
Bowling style Right-arm medium 

Batting and fielding averages

	Mat	Inns	NO	Runs	HS	Ave	BF	SR	100	50	4s	6s	Ct	St
Tests	31	52	3	1183	128	24.14	2367	49.97	1	3	171	6	27	0
ODIs	57	55	6	1586	105*	32.36	2402	66.02	1	12	177	12	18	0
First-class	151	250	16	9517	252*	40.67			26	36			125	0
List A	131	127	10	3639	105*	31.10			2	27			53	0
Twenty20	3	3	0	57	42	19.00	45	126.66	0	0	7	0	2	0

Bowling averages

	Mat	Inns	Balls	Runs	Wkts	BBI	BBM	Ave			4w	5w	10
Tests	31	1	18	19	0	-	-	-			0	0	0
ODIs	57	1	24	30	1	1/30	1/30	30.00			0	0	0
First-class	151		252	132	2	1/19		66.00				0	0
List A	131		84	92	3	2/62	2/62	30.66			0	0	0
Twenty20	3	-	-	-	-	-	-	-			-	-	-

Career statistics

Test debut	West Indies v England at St John's, Apr 16-21, 1994 scorecard
Last Test	West Indies v India at Bridgetown, May 2-5, 2002 scorecard
Test statistics
ODI debut	India v West Indies at Faridabad, Oct 17, 1994 scorecard
Last ODI	Australia v West Indies at Manchester, May 30, 1999 scorecard
ODI statistics
First-class span	1988/89 - 2004/05
List A span	1988/89 - 2004/05
Twenty20 debut	Nevis v St Kitts at Coolidge, Jul 14, 2006 scorecard
Last Twenty20	Nevis v Trinidad & Tobago at Coolidge, Aug 11, 2006 scorecard

Profile

Fiery on and off the pitch, Runako Morton's cricket career looked to be dead in the water when he was expelled from the West Indian Academy in July 2001, for a series of regulation breaches. He refused to be bowed, however, and continued to accumulate runs for Leeward Islands in the Busta Cup. In February 2002, his penance complete, he was called into an injury-plagued West Indian squad as a replacement for Marlon Samuels, and was tipped to become one of the few Test cricketers from tiny island of Nevis. But he threw away his opportunity when he pulled out of the ICC Champions Trophy in September 2002, after lying about the death of his grandmother. His career slipped further down the pan when he was arrested in January 2004, following a stabbing incident, but in May 2005, he was given a third chance at redemption when he was recalled to the one-day squad to face South Africa although he didn't get a game. He got his chance later that month against Pakistan at home, and was then picked for the 2005-06 tour to New Zealand, where he proved his worth with a fighting century - his maiden one-day hundred - in a losing cause. He followed it up with another ton, in the away series against Zimbabwe, but soon made it into the record books for his painstaking 31-ball duck in the final of the DLF Cup against Australia in Malaysia. It was the slowest ODI duck, beating Phil Simmons's earlier record that had consumed 23 balls. It certainly got his eye in, however, as Morton made an unbeaten 90 in his next meeting with the Australians, in the Champions Trophy. From that moment on, however, his form fell away, and he was omitted from the West Indian squad for the subsequent World Cup. He won a recall for the tour of England in 2007 and then beat up on Zimbabwe in a lopsided ODI series, but was left out of the Test side to take on Sri Lanka after a disappointing series in South Africa.

Andrew Miller May 2008


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