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Post by Admin on Aug 7, 2018 23:38:27 GMT
With his dashing good looks, charming smile and ability to play shots all around the wicket, Charlie Davis was one of Trinidadad & Tobago's , most popular and prolific batsmen during the nineteen sixties and 'seventies. A child prodigy in every sens of the word, he came in to national prominence in 1960, when as a sixteen-year old, he scored 115 for North Trinidad vs. South Trinidad. In late '61, Davis was amongst 23 names called by the West Indies Cricket Board of Control to prepare for India's visit in 1962. "Do you know that was the headline in the (Trinidad) newspapers: 'CHARLIE DAVIS CALLED FOR WI 23,' I thought that was irrelevant, I knew I had no chance of getting picked." Perhaps if he had known how good his chances really were, he would have performed better against the Indians. Playing for Trinidad Colts and Trinidad vs. the Indians, he scored 20 odd and 30 odd respectively. "Later Gary Sobers came up to me and said: "'"Charlie" do you know that if you had made just 50 you would have been selected for the W.I.. That's all Frank Worrel was looking for, to see that you were in good nick.'" .......Read the rest of the article here vbhoolai.wixsite.com/hail-caribbeansport/charlie-daviis-cricketVB
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Post by Admin on Sept 22, 2018 4:02:22 GMT
The article has now been updated to include the unofficial match between the WI and the Oxford Table Tennis team (penultimate paragraph_.
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