By Tony Cozier
OF all the numbers stacked against the name E.deC.Weekes in scorebooks the world over, 90 carries an unfortunate significance.
It was his score in the West Indies’ first innings of the fourth Test against India at the Chepauk Stadium in what was then Madras, now Chennai, in January 1949. Ten more runs would have extended his overall record of five successive Test hundreds that has never been surpassed; he was cut short by a run out decision
