Former West Indies batsman Seymour Nurse passes away

Nurse scored 2523 runs during an normal of 47.60, including 6 hundreds and 10 half-centuries. The middle-order batsman from Barbados finished 9489 runs in 141 First-Class matches during 43.93.

Former West Indies batsman Seymour Nurse passes away

Former West Indies batsman Seymour Nurse, who played 29 Tests between 1960 and 1969, has upheld divided following a enlarged illness. He was 85.

Nurse scored 2523 runs during an normal of 47.60, including 6 hundreds and 10 half-centuries. The middle-order batsman from Barbados finished 9489 runs in 141 First-Class matches during 43.93.

Former West Indies opener Desmond Haynes common a news of Nurse’s passing in a Facebook post.

“My manager my mentor, we all from a holders mountain area adore this man, we used to travel like Seymour bat like him and try to speak like him. Thanks for all we have finished for me. May he Rest In Peace and arise in glory,” Haynes wrote.

Nurse finished his Test entrance opposite England in 1960, scoring 70 in a initial innings. In his second Test, hold during Melbourne in Dec 1960, he scored another 70 yet Australia won a diversion by 7 wickets.

After featuring in a Test opposite India in 1962 during Port of Spain, Nurse did not play another diversion for a West Indies until 1965 due to injuries. He could usually concrete his place in a group in 1966 when he scored 4 fifties and a hundred in a five-Test array in England.

He was also named Wisden Cricketer of a Year in 1967.

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