Despite that iconic moment I can’t however say that I ever really expected to see a biography of Solomon, let alone one running to 462 pages. A part time leg spinner who picked up just four Test wickets Solomon’s greatest personal contribution to the history of cricket was undoubtedly the superb throw which beat Ian Meckiff and tied the Brisbane Test in 1960/61. His record, like his batting, is unspectacular, just a single century and an average of exactly 34, but those numbers fail to reflect his real value to the teams he was part of. A specialist batsman, Solomon generally batted at six or seven.
He was capped 27 times in the late fifties and early sixties.
:max_bytes(150000):strip_icc()/8417936523_7997a85694_k-5ad4ca6aae9ab80038b33d1b.jpg "The Humming-Bird Tree by Ian McDonald")
Joe Solomon is the oldest living West Indian Test cricketer, having celebrated his 92nd birthday earlier this year. Joe Solomon and the Spirit of Port Mourant Martin Chandler | 9:16am GMT 27 November 2022
0 kommentar(er)
