20-509: Ganteaume is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: Andy Ganteaume (1921–2016), Trinidadian cricketer Honoré Joseph Antoine Ganteaume (1755–1818), French Navy officer Ganteaume's expeditions of 1801 , three connected major French Navy operations of the spring of 1801 during the French Revolutionary Wars [REDACTED] Surname list This page lists people with
40-452: A wicketkeeper in 1941 as a 19-year-old. He scored 87 batting at number eight . Over the next few seasons, Ganteaume played regularly for Trinidad in first-class competition and for North Trinidad in a non-first-class island competition. He also played football for the Trinidad team around this time, but his time for sport was restricted by his career in the civil service. From batting in
60-503: A 59 in his debut innings at Lord's . He also had a famous opening partnership alongside Jamaican batsman Allan Rae with the duo averaging a lofty 71 in their 13 tests as a pair. Stollmeyer gained the captaincy during the 1951–52 tour of Australia after John Goddard stood down in that series. He retained the captaincy during the West Indies' next three series, all of which were played at home. After his playing career, Stollmeyer had
80-519: A long and distinguished career in cricket administration. He served as President of the West Indies Board of Control from 1974 until 1981, a tenure distinguished by his opposition to Kerry Packer 's World Series Cricket . In 1979 he was awarded Trinidad and Tobago's Chaconia Medal (Gold). Stollmeyer released his autobiography Everything Under the Sun in 1983. In June 1988 Stollmeyer was celebrated on
100-550: A young age and was chosen to play in a Test match against England following his good batting form in 1948. However, his slow scoring probably cost him his place and he never played another Test, although he toured England with the West Indies in 1957. At the time of his death, Ganteaume was the oldest surviving West Indies Test cricketer. Ganteaume was born in Belmont, Port of Spain , Trinidad and Tobago . He had no formal cricket coaching but made his first-class debut for Trinidad as
120-459: Is also possible that Ganteaume's career was affected by his attitude to authority. The cricket journalist Martin Williamson suggests: "Ganteaume probably paid as much for his anti-establishment attitude as for slow scoring. He was certainly not someone who was going to bow and scrape to the white players who still dominated the region's cricket." In later years, Ganteaume served as a Test selector and
140-502: Is different from Wikidata All set index articles Andy Ganteaume Andrew Gordon Ganteaume (22 January 1921 – 17 February 2016) was a Trinidadian cricketer who played one Test match for the West Indies in 1948 as a batsman . He scored 112 in his only Test innings which left him with the highest Test batting average in history until it was surpassed by Kurtis Patterson . Ganteaume played for Trinidad from
160-415: The West Indies ' opening batsmen, before the game meant that Ganteaume was called up into the side. England batted first to score 362, but when the West Indies batted, Ganteaume and his opening partner, George Carew shared a partnership of 173. Once more, Ganteaume was criticised for slow batting, although he later suggested that he had concentrated on scoring singles to allow his in-form partner to face
180-418: The bowling . On the third day, he carried on batting to reach his century, the first in a Test match by a Trinidadian in Trinidad. The innings took around 270 minutes, but he slowed down as he neared three-figures, and the West Indies' captain sent out a note asking the batsmen to score faster. Other batsmen also batted slowly, and Ganteaume later claimed that England used negative, run-saving tactics to slow
200-414: The surname Ganteaume . If an internal link intending to refer to a specific person led you to this page, you may wish to change that link by adding the person's given name (s) to the link. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ganteaume&oldid=834602870 " Category : Surnames Hidden categories: Articles with short description Short description
220-669: The $ 2.50 Trinidad and Tobago stamp alongside the Barbados Cricket Buckle . Stollmeyer died on 10 September 1989 in a hospital in Melbourne , Florida , after suffering wounds from home invaders in his home in Port-of-Spain. Stollmeyer's older brother Vic also played Test cricket for the West Indies while another brother, Hugh was one of Trinidad's great painters who influenced the Caribbean art movement. Stollmeyer's nephew John
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#1732883720671240-504: The West Indies. When the team played in Trinidad, Ganteaume scored 101 and 47 not out in the first match but journalists criticised him for scoring slowly in easy batting conditions. In a second match against the touring side, he scored 5 and 90 but was not selected in the team for the Test match which followed—Ganteaume later suggested his non-selection was a result of his underprivileged background. However, an injury to Jeff Stollmeyer , one of
260-504: The batting. He never came close to selection for a Test match. After the tour, Ganteaume played just twice more for Trinidad in first-class cricket, and ended his career with 2,785 first-class runs at an average of 34.81 and five centuries. Having played just one Test innings, Ganteaume was left with a Test batting average of 112, the highest career average by a former player. There are several possible reasons why Ganteaume played no further Test cricket after his single match. Apart from
280-481: The middle-order, Ganteaume was eventually promoted to open the batting as a theory at the time suggested that wicketkeepers might make good openers as they became accustomed to the conditions while keeping wicket; Ganteaume neither believed this theory nor enjoyed being an opener. He scored his maiden first-class century in 1946; a second followed later in the year. In the 1947–48 season, the England cricket team toured
300-467: The next Test match—he was replaced by John Goddard who came into the team as part of a pre-arranged scheme to rotate the captaincy. Ganteaume was chosen in a preliminary 24-man squad to tour India and Pakistan in 1948–49, but did not make the final selection of 16 players, and was overlooked for the 1950 tour of England. He continued to play irregularly for Trinidad in the following years, but played no further representative cricket until 1957. Ganteaume
320-400: The scoring rate. He did not bat in the second innings, when the West Indies needed to score runs quickly in an unsuccessful attempt to win the game. The match was drawn, having been earlier interrupted by rain which cut the playing time, but in the knowledge that quick scoring was vital, Ganteaume's slow batting adversely affected the West Indies' chances of victory. Ganteaume did not play in
340-470: The slow pace of his batting during that hundred—Goddard later suggested that it would have been better for Ganteaume's career to score a rapid 60 than a slow hundred— West Indies' batting was strong at the time and there was plenty of competition for places in the team. Even so, his teammate and later West Indies captain Jeff Stollmeyer suggested that he was unlucky to be left out of subsequent teams. It
360-503: Was West Indies manager in 1973–74. In 2007, his autobiography, My Story: The Other Side of the Coin was published, in which he criticised the West Indies "establishment" of his playing days. He died at the age of 95 on 17 February 2016. At the time of his death he was the oldest surviving West Indies Test cricketer, and the second oldest in the world. Jeff Stollmeyer Jeffrey Baxter Stollmeyer (11 March 1921 – 10 September 1989)
380-459: Was a Trinidad and Tobago cricketer who played as an opening batsman. He played 32 Test matches for the West Indies , captaining 13 of these. He was also a senator . Stollmeyer was born in Santa Cruz , Trinidad and Tobago . Described as "tall and graceful with a good range of strokes marked especially by the drive" by Wisden , he played in his first Test at the age of eighteen and made
400-466: Was selected to tour England with the West Indies team in 1957 at the age of 36. He played 19 first-class matches on the tour and scored 800 runs at an average of 27.58. He passed fifty in seven innings, with a top-score of 92 against Glamorgan . Norman Preston, the editor of Wisden Cricketers' Almanack , suggested neither Ganteaume nor any of the other three specialist opening batsmen in the team "came up to expectations", forcing Frank Worrell to open
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