Famous Cricketers No 94 - Alfred Lewis Valentine

SEASON’S AVERAGES Batting and Fielding M I NO Runs HS Ave 100 50 Ct Test matches 4 5 0 15 9 3.00 - - 2 Other matches 17 14 3 34 9* 3.09 - - 5 Tour 21 19 3 49 9* 3.06 - - 7 Career 23 22 3 72 12 3.78 - - 8 Bowling O M R W BB Ave 5i 10m Test matches 422.3 197 674 33 8-104 20.42 2 2 Other matches 767.5 278 1533 90 8-26 17.03 8 1 Tour (6-ball) 1190.2 475 2207 123 8-26 17.94 10 3 Career (6-ball) 1268.4 491 2397 125 8-26 19.17 10 3 1950/51 Four matches were played in the Caribbean in the winter of 1950/51 to help the WICBC select the West Indian team scheduled to tour Australia and New Zealand shortly. British Guiana played two games in Jamaica while Trinidad played two in Barbados. Jamaica won both of their games quite handily, largely because of Valentine’s brilliance. He claimed 13 wickets in the first match and 9 in the second. His 22 wickets then constituted a record for a cricket tournament in the West Indies. His match analysis of 13/164 in the first encounter has remained a record for Jamaica against Guyana to this day. Neville Bonitto and Ken Rickards batted very well for Jamaica. Rickards was selected for the Australasian tour but Bonitto was not. The Bonitto brothers, Colin and Neville, were very fine batsmen who simply had the ill fortune to emerge at the wrong time. In the end, the Jamaicans who accompanied John Goddard to Australia and New Zealand were Alan Rae, Rickards and Valentine. Robert Christiani and John Trim were the Guyanese players selected. Own Team O M R W Opp Ct Total Total 24. Jamaica v British Guiana, Kingston, March 3, 5, 6, 7, 8 (Jamaica won by 224 runs) b B.B.M.Gaskin 2 273 21.3 7 52 6 G.L.Wight c J.K.C.Holt 162 1 H.P.Bayley c J.K.C.Holt C.H.Thomas b G.Persaud lbw A.B.Patoir c J.K.C.Holt J.Trim st A.P.Binns b J.B.Rollox 7 399 36.4 6 112 7 H.P.Bayley b 286 R.J.Christiani c S.R.Goodridge G.Persaud st A.P.Binns J.L.Thomas c G.H.Mudie A.B.Patoir b J.Trim c A.R.Bonitto C.A.McWatt c N.L.Bonitto 25. Jamaica v British Guiana, Kingston, March 10, 12, 13, 14, 15 (Jamaica won by nine wickets) not out 3 519 32.4 6 102 6 G.L.Wight c J.K.C.Holt 256 C.C.Reece b C.H.Thomas st A.P.Binns G.Persaud c A.R.Bonitto P.B.Wight c A.P.Binns J.Trim b did not bat - 53-1 29 3 101 3 C.C.Reece st A.P.Binns 314 1 C.H.Thomas b P.B.Wight b SEASON’S AVERAGES Batting and Fielding M I NO Runs HS Ave 100 50 Ct Other matches 2 3 1 12 7 6.00 - - 2 Career 25 25 4 84 12 4.00 - - 10 13