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Charlie Stayers

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Charlie Stayers
Personal information
Born9 June 1937 (1937-06-09)
Georgetown, British Guiana
Died6 January 2005 (2005-01-07) (aged 67)
London, England
BattingRight-handed
BowlingRight-arm fast-medium
International information
National side
Test debut16 February 1962 v India
Last Test4 April 1962 v India
Domestic team information
YearsTeam
1958/59 to 1961/62British Guiana
1962/63Bombay
Career statistics
Competition Test First-class
Matches 4 17
Runs scored 58 485
Batting average 19.33 28.52
100s/50s 0/0 1/2
Top score 35* 120
Balls bowled 636 3,061
Wickets 9 68
Bowling average 40.44 26.10
5 wickets in innings 0 4
10 wickets in match 0 0
Best bowling 3/65 6/36
Catches/stumpings 0/– 3/–
Source: ESPNcricinfo, 31 October 2022

Sven Conrad "Charlie" Stayers (9 June 1937 – 6 January 2005) was a Guyanese cricketer who played in four Test matches for West Indies in 1962.

Life and career

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Stayers was born in Georgetown in British Guiana, and attended St Stanislaus College there.[1]

Stayers was a tall, loose-limbed right-arm fast bowler and useful right-handed batsman.[2] He played domestic cricket for British Guiana from 1958 to 1961.[3] On his first-class debut against the touring Pakistani team in 1957–58 he took five wickets.[4] He was the most successful bowler in the inter-island tournament in 1961–62, when he took 22 wickets at an average of 18.22, and British Guiana won the tournament.[5] In the victory over Barbados in the final he took 6 for 70 and 3 for 64 and made 83 in the first innings.[6] He played his four Test matches later that season.

Stayers also played for Bombay in the 1962–63 Ranji Trophy season.[1] He was one of four West Indian fast bowlers who played a season of domestic cricket in India in 1962–63 in order to give Indian batsmen more experience of playing fast bowling.[7] He played in the West Zone team that won the Duleep Trophy,[8] and took nine wickets in the final of the Ranji Trophy to help Bombay retain the title.[9]

The Ranji Trophy final, in which he took his best figures, was Stayers' last first-class match. He spent the 1963 English season as the professional for Enfield in the Lancashire League, and stayed in England to study at university. He pursued a career in health management that took him to Nigeria, Uganda, the United States, and back to England, where he died in 2005, aged 67.[2]

References

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  1. ^ a b "Charlie Stayers: West Indian fast bowler who helped Bombay win Ranji Trophy". Cricket Country. 9 June 2016. Retrieved 11 June 2019.
  2. ^ a b "Charlie Stayers". ESPNcricinfo. Retrieved 25 September 2023.
  3. ^ "First-Class Matches played by Charlie Stayers". CricketArchive. Retrieved 24 September 2023.
  4. ^ "British Guiana v Pakistanis 1957-58". ESPNcricinfo. Retrieved 25 September 2023.
  5. ^ "Bowling in Pentangular Tournament 1961/62". CricketArchive. Retrieved 25 September 2023.
  6. ^ "British Guiana v Barbados 1961/62". CricketArchive. Retrieved 25 September 2023.
  7. ^ Mihir Bose, A History of Indian Cricket, Andre Deutsch, London, 1990, p. 231.
  8. ^ "South Zone v West Zone 1962-63". ESPNcricinfo. Retrieved 24 September 2023.
  9. ^ "Rajasthan v Bombay 1962-63". ESPNcricinfo. Retrieved 24 September 2023.
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