Sir Everton, Ambrose To be Honoured
Port-Of-Spain Sir Everton Weekes and Curtly Ambrose, for whom the Queen's Park Oval was the happiest of hunting grounds in different generations, are to be featured guests when the largest, best appointed and most attractively situated ground in the
16-Mar-2001
Port-Of-Spain Sir Everton Weekes and Curtly Ambrose, for whom the
Queen's Park Oval was the happiest of hunting grounds in different
generations, are to be featured guests when the largest, best
appointed and most attractively situated ground in the Caribbean
celebrates its 50th Test match, starting tomorrow. Queen's Park is the
eighth venue to have reached 50 Tests. Four grounds in England
(Lord's, Old Trafford, the Oval and Headingley) and two in Australia
(the MCG and the SCG) are the others.
Weekes, 76, and Ambrose, 37, will fly in to Port-of-Spain to be guests
of the Queen's Park Cricket Club, which owns and maintains the Oval,
and the Trinidad and Tobago Cricket Board.
They will unveil new boards listing all 80 previous century-makers and
68 bowlers with five or more wickets in an innings in Tests on the
ground in a special ceremony before the start of the Test.
Trinidad and Tobago President A.N.R. Robinson and Prime Minister
Basdeo Panday will meet the teams who will sit for an official
photograph. Commemorative gold-plated plaques have been struck for
presentation to both captains and the players will receive medallions.
Weekes and Ambrose were chosen by Queen's Park's organising committee
because of their consistently outstanding performances in Tests at the
Oval. Weekes piled up 1 074 runs at an average of 97.63 in his seven
Tests there between 1948 and 1958. Ambrose despatched 66 batsmen in
his 12 Queen's Park Tests.