ST JOHN’S, Antigua, CMC – West Indies Cricket Board president Julian Hunte has hailed outstanding former Windies fast bowler Wes Hall as an “unwavering servant of cricket” after the Barbadian was yesterday knighted as part of the Queen’s Birthday Honours list.
Sir Wesley, as he will be formally known, took 192 wickets in 48 Tests during an illustrious 11-year career.
He went on to become a WICB president between 2001 and 2003, and also served as team manager and chief selector.
“There are few in West Indies cricket who could be more deserving of such an illustrious honour as Wes Hall,” Hunte said.
“Wes has been a true and unwavering servant of cricket who fought for equality for West Indies on and off the field.
“He laboured for our game and our people because of his love for cricket and West Indians and so diverse are his talents and skills that he has also served Barbados and the region in politics, religion and as a widely acclaimed and ever-popular speaker.”
The 74-year-old Hall is the second former WICB president to be knighted after the late Sir Clyde Walcott.
He is also an ordained Pentecostal minister and has been credited for having accelerated the sports tourism thrust in Barbados when he served as tourism minister in the early 1990s.
