Your Country's XI who died during your lifetime

[steve132]

Conrad Hunte
Roy Fredericks
George Headley
Frank Worrell*
Clyde Walcott
Collie Smith
Learie Constantine
Gerry Alexander
Malcolm Marshall
Manny Martindale
Alf Valentine

No great West Indian cricketer died BEFORE I was born. They are all still alive or in this team.

 

[Daemon]

Don’t get what your point is. There’s no prize for the best XI. As with the “year you were born” thread it’s dependent on the accident of birth. In that thread if you were born in 2002 you’re probably picking your own college XI. There’s nothing to “get”, just an exercise to join in with or not as you feel fit.

Fair enough, just a bit of fun.

I guess I'm just salty because healthcare has improved and cricketers aren't dying fast enough since I was born.

 

[mr_mister]

Conrad Hunte
Roy Fredericks
George Headley
Frank Worrell*
Clyde Walcott
Collie Smith
Learie Constantine
Gerry Alexander
Malcolm Marshall
Manny Martindale
Alf Valentine

No great West Indian cricketer died BEFORE I was born. They are all still alive or in this team.

Collie Smith? Damn

 

[Lillian Thomson]

Collie Smith? Damn

Cricketers dying while their career was still in progress is probably a whole new thread. But I'll leave that to someone else.

 

[AndrewB]

It's not that easy to define: there are obvious cases like Smith, Ben Hollioake, Phil Hughes; but would you include Ken Farnes (died aged 30 during the war, having not played FC cricket for 2 years) or Archie Jackson (died aged 23 having been too ill to play for a couple of years)?

 

[Fuller Pilch]

I think you could include Jackson. Wadsworth is another example and sad proof of the risk of melanoma for cricketers.