Everton Weekes

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Image:West Indies Cricket Board Flag.svg Everton Weekes West Indies (WI)
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Batting style	Right hand bat
Bowling type	Right arm leg break
	Tests	First-class
Matches	48	152
Runs scored	4,455	12,010
Batting average	58.61	55.34
100s/50s	15/19	36/54
Top score	207	304*
Balls bowled	122	1,125
Wickets	1	17
Bowling average	77.00	43.00
5 wickets in innings	-	-
10 wickets in match	-	-
Best bowling	1/8	4/38
Catches/stumpings	49/-	124/1
Test debut: January 21, 1948 Last Test: March 31, 1958 Source: CricInfo

Sir Everton de Courcy Weekes, KCMG, GCM, OBE (born 26 February, 1925, Pickwick Gap, Westbury, Saint Michael, Barbados) was a West Indian cricketer.

Weekes was one of the 'three W's', along with Clyde Walcott and Frank Worrell, noted as outstanding batsmen from Barbados who all made their Test debut in 1948 against England.

His most famous feat took place in 1948/1949, when he scored five centuries in consecutive innings, plus seven consecutive fifties both Test records. ^[1] ^[2] In the sixth innings of this sequence he was controversially run out within ten runs of another century. These were his first five centuries, and helped him to reach 1,000 Test runs in just 12 innings, one fewer than Donald Bradman.^[3]

Other notable achievements include three centuries in consecutive innings against New Zealand in 1956, and a partnership of 338 with Worrell against England in 1954, still a West Indian record for the third wicket.

Weekes played all his first-class cricket for Barbados but did appear in the Lancashire League with Bacup in seven seasons between 1949 and 1958. In all of these seasons he passed 1000 runs ^[4], his 1,518 runs scored in 1951 is still the club record and for 40 years was the league record.

Weekes retired from Test cricket in 1958 because of a persistent thigh injury. In 1994 he served as an ICC match referee, a year later he received a Knighthood for services to cricket.

As of January 2007, Weekes' career Test batting average of 58.61 is the eighth highest of all players with 30 or more innings. An oddity of his career was the first innings bias averaging 71.44 compared with 36.64 in the second, and only one of his fifteen tons came in the second innings.

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Everton Weekes' career performance graph.

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Sir Everton Weekes with Rector of St. James Church and guests, February 2007.