Famous Cricketers No 71 - J.D.C.Goddard

PREFACE The publication of this book has been made possible by the encouragement and support of Mr. Peter Wynne-Thomas, honorary secretary of the Association of Cricket Statisticians and Historians. The study itself has profited much from the advice of such individuals as Mr. Charles Alleyne, Professor Hilary Beckles, Sir Carlisle Burton, Mr. Bertram Callender, Mr. Gladstone Holder, Mr. Ronald Hughes and Mr. Patrick Lashley. It owes a great deal, too, to the researches of Messrs. Jimmy Richards and Mervyn Wong, whose Statistics of West Indies Cricket 1865-1989 , published in 1990, must serve as the starting-point for any serious student of Caribbean cricket. Also helpful in piecing together the jig-saw puzzle of John Goddard’s first-class cricket career is Mr. Philip Thorn’s excellent Barbados Cricketers 1865-1990 , published by the Association of Cricket Statisticians at the beginning of this decade. To these vital sources must be added 100 Years of Organised Cricket in Barbados 1892-1992 , Dr. Bruce Hamilton’s Cricket in Barbados (still a prerequisite after all these years) and The Complete Record of West Indian Test Cricketers , written in 1991 by Ms. Bridgette Lawrence and Mr. Ray Goble. Without the pioneering work of the cricket enthusiasts who produced these seminal studies, this effort would most certainly have borne no fruit at all. Winnipeg, Manitoba Canada, June 1996 3