Clyde Walcott

Statesman of West Indies Cricket

Peter Mason

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Manchester University Press
02 January 2025

Biography: sport; Postwar 20th century history, from c 1945 to c 2000; Colonialism & imperialism; Cricket

Series: Global Icons

The first biography of a cricketing great, exploring his achievements as a player, manager and political activist.

This first biography of Sir Clyde Walcott explores the extraordinary life and achievements of a man who was both an important activist and one of the greatest cricketers of all time.

In the 1950s Walcott was part of the legendary 'three Ws' batting triumvirate with Everton Weekes and Frank Worrell that helped give West Indies cricket a new identity distinct from its colonial past. After test cricket he became a prominent administrator and advocate of Black consciousness, managing the great West Indies teams that dominated the sport in the 1980s. A vocal supporter of using cricket to apply pressure to the South African apartheid regime, in 1992 he became chairman of the International Cricket Council

the first Black man in that influential role.

Shining a light on Walcott's largely ignored part in effecting change through the vehicle of cricket, this book also shows how he contributed to dramatic social transformation in Guyana as cricket and social organiser for the country's sugar estates from 1954 to 1970, bringing about improvements in the living conditions and self-esteem of plantation workers while promoting the emergence of several world-class cricketers from a previously neglected corner of the Caribbean.

By: Peter Mason
Imprint: Manchester University Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 198mm, Width: 129mm,
ISBN: 9781526181602
ISBN 10: 1526181606
Series: Global Icons
Pages: 208
Publication Date: 02 January 2025
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Forthcoming

Peter Mason is a journalist and author who writes for the Guardian newspaper in the UK. His books include Bacchanal!: The Carnival Culture of Trinidad, Jamaica in Focus and a biography of the Trinidadian cricketer and statesman Learie Constantine.

Reviews for Clyde Walcott: Statesman of West Indies Cricket

'A lucid, accessible and necessary work on a towering personality not only in West Indies cricket but in the sport universally.' Clem Seecharan, author of Joe Solomon and the Spirit of Port Mourant -- .