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George Alphonso Headley, born at Panama on May 30, 1909, is beyond all question the best batsman the West Indies have ever produced. Paying his first visit to England with the West Indies team ...
May 9, 2010 · George Headley scored more than 25% of his team's runs in the 19 Tests he played before the Second World War • PA Photos It's a pity George Headley played only 22 Test matches - his career was a ...
Headley, George. May 30, 1909. November 30, 1983. The son of migrant workers from Barbados and Jamaica, George Alphonso Headley was born in Col ó n, Panama. When he was ten, he was taken to Jamaica, where he grew up in the care of his aunt, as his parents migrated to Cuba and then to the United States. Exposed to cricket in Jamaica, he quickly ...
Sep 1, 2019 · Statue of George Headley in Sabina Park, Kingston. In the bowels of the southern stand at Sabina Park, a bunch of kids are idling away near a rusty statue of a batsman, frozen in his imperious follow through after an on-drive (see pic). Time and neglect have eroded its legs to the extent that it could tumble any time, like a batman losing his ...
George Headley represented West Indies in 22 Tests and scored 2,190 runs at an average of 60.83, including ten centuries, eight of them against England. Known as ‘The Black Bradman’, his highest Test score, an unbeaten 270, came against England in 1935.
HEADLEY, GEORGE ALPHONSO, MBE, who died in Jamaica on November 30, 1983, aged 74, was the first of the great black batsmen to emerge from the West Indies. Between the wars, when the West Indies ...
The death, aged 74, of George Alphonso Headley, MBE, whose obituary notice was published in the 1983 Wisden , naturally prompts some estimation as to where this indubitably great batsman stands in ...
