Hundreds pay tribute to Runako Morton

Members of the Queen’s Park Cricket Club carrying the casket into the church. (Trinidad Express)

(Barbados Nation) Runako Morton played his final innings today.

Family, friends and fans turned out in their numbers yesterday to pay tribute to the fallen former West Indies cricketer at a funeral service at the First Church of the Open Bible in San Fernando, Trinidad.

Members of the Queen's Park Cricket Club carrying the casket into the church. (Trinidad Express)
Members of the Queen's Park Cricket Club carrying the casket into the church. (Trinidad Express)

Several prominent cricketers, past and present, were in attendance, including former ex-West Indies captain Brian Lara and West Indies Players Association president Dinanath Ramnarine.

Ramnarine read the eulogy while Lara paid a tribute to Morton, who died last week Sunday following a vehicle accident in central Trinidad.