Mendonca’s passing a shock says GCC’s Jaikaran

Ivor Mendonca

Guyana’s cricket, already in turmoil over the performances of the national teams and the administration of the game plunged into mourning yesterday when former Guyana and West Indies wicketkeeper Ivor Leon Mendonca passed away at the Davis Memorial Hospital D’urban Backlands after a prolonged illness.

Mendonca was 79.

He made his highest first class score of 78 on debut against India in the second test in Jamaica in 1961/62.

Mendonca, the eldest of 10 children born to Ineas and Ormond Mendonca,