Full Name

Rolph Stewart Grant

Born

December 15, 1909, Port of Spain, Trinidad

Died

October 18, 1977, Oakville, Ontario, Canada, (aged 67y 307d)

Batting Style

Right hand Bat

Bowling Style

Right arm Offbreak

RELATIONS

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Wisden Obituary
Rolph Stewart Grant, who died on October 18, aged 67, was the younger of two brothers, both Cambridge blues, to captain the West Indies. Not a distinguished player at Cambridge, he owed his selection for one of the last places in 1933 largely to his superb fielding: he was a soccer blue and an Amateur International goalkeeper. But he was also a useful bat in the lower half of the order and a useful bowler of slow off-spin round the wicket and fully justified his place. He dismissed three of the first four Oxford batsmen for 44 runs and made an astonishing catch at short leg to get rid of F. G. H. Chalk, a very dangerous player.

Returning to the West Indies, he played in the Tests against the M.C.C. side in 1934-35 and in the fourth made his highest Test score, 77. Appointed captain of the West Indian side in England in 1939 and faced by mid-June with the awkward problem of finding an opening partner for J. B. Stollmeyer, he solved it with characteristic courage by going in first himself and continued to do so until the end of the tour with very fair success. Against Lancashire he made 95, his highest score of the season, but certainly his best innings was in the Old Trafford Test when, opening after England had declared at 164 for seven on a wicket which was not easy and was likely to become rapidly more difficult, he scored 47 out of 56 in thirty-eight minutes including three 6's off Goddard. When he was out the whole crowd rose to him, a tribute seldom paid to so short an innings. Earlier that day he had taken the wickets of Hutton and Hardstaff for 16 runs. Though he was obviously short of the experience which most Test captains have, he proved himself in other ways an admirable leader.
Wisden Cricketer's Almanack

Rolph Grant Career Stats

Batting & Fielding

FormatMatInnsNORunsHSAve100s50s6sCtSt
Tests71112207722.00013130
FC48748188315228.53110-660

Bowling

FormatMatInnsBallsRunsWktsBBIBBMAveEconSR4w5w10w
Tests711986353113/684/8632.092.1489.6000
FC48-53871989794/41-25.172.2168.1-00
Rolph Stewart Grant

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Debut/Last Matches of Rolph Grant

Recent Matches of Rolph Grant

MatchBatBowlDateGroundFormat
West Indies vs England60/31 & 0/3819-Aug-1939The OvalTest # 274
West Indians vs Gloucs12 & 81/21 & 1/6612-Aug-1939CheltenhamFC
West Indians vs Warwickshire14/43 & 0/2109-Aug-1939BirminghamFC
West Indians vs Glamorgan21 & 461/2 & 0/2105-Aug-1939SwanseaFC
West Indians vs Hampshire544/41 & 2/2429-Jul-1939BournemouthFC