By Joe Rigby
With that typical eye for detail and anecdote, Tony Cozier, in his last work before his death last year, captured the man behind the statistics in Sir Everton Weekes: An Appreciation*.
Cozier, the great chronicler of West Indian cricket as author, raconteur, journalist and broadcaster, was a firm friend of fellow Barbadian Sir Everton and the work was a labour of love.
Weekes is one of the triumvirate of brilliant Barbadian cricketers who lifted the West Indies to the upper echelons of Test cricket. Alongside Sir Frank Worrell and Sir Clyde Walcott, they were known, inevitably,...