In this week’s edition of In Search of West Indies Cricket Roger Seymour looks at the oft overlooked Test career of Charlie Davis, the Trinidadian Boy Wonder.
Recently, I stumbled on my notes from the Charlie Davis interview. I can’t recall exactly how I got in touch with him, but he readily agreed to chat and we arranged to meet in the Food Court at Long Circular Mall, St James, a suburb of Port-of-Spain, at 10 am, on Tuesday, 11th March, 1997. Davis, affable and gracious, revealed a sharp memory of his cricketing days.
“I was about 15 years old when I decided I was going to play for the West Indies,” Davis said. A prolific run scorer as a schoolboy, he seemed destined to wear the Maroon colours. Davis came from a sporting family in the suburb of Belmont. His mother, Kathleen (nee Lambie) represented Trinidad in hockey, while his father, Charles Allan, was a keen all-round sports fan. His sister Alana also represented Trinidad in hockey in the 1970s. Charlie and his brother Bryan spent countless hours playing cricket in their yard. Four years senior, Bryan batted most of the time whilst his younger sibling bowled.
