![Kanhai drives John Gleeson during the Fourth Test (Source: Captains on a See-Saw/Phil Tressider [1969])](https://s1.stabroeknews.com/images/2024/03/Kanhai-drives.jpg)
In this week’s edition of In Search of West Indies Cricket Roger Seymour looks at an entry in the Forgotten Scoreboard File.
“But sometimes we have to make the best of things, and the way we conduct ourselves when the chips are down …” – Harper Lee, To Kill A Mockingbird
Prologue
“Understand, Garry [Sobers] had one problem,” the speaker is Charlie Davis (The Charlie Davis Story, SN, 18th February, 2024). “He thought the game came to everyone as easy as it came to him. Apart from that, he was the most positive man I ever met. Nothing fazed him. Take for instance, the Fourth Test at Adelaide, on the 1968/69 Tour of Australia….”
West Indies Down Under 1968/69
The West Indies squad for the Australia/New Zealand tour began assembling in Bridgetown, Barbados. Newcomer Mike Findlay, the Windward Islands wicket-keeper, arrived from St Vincent on Wednesday, October 9, followed by part of the Guyanese contingent: Tour Manager Berkeley Gaskin, Masseur Hubert Cromarty, middle order batsman Basil Butcher, and opening batsmen Steve Camacho and Roy Fredericks on Friday. Trinidadians Joey Carew and Charlie Davis arrived on Saturday. The Barbadians: Assistant Manager Keith Walcott, middle order batsman Seymour Nurse, all-rounder David Holford, and fast bowler Richard Edwards joined the team for the Sunday departure to New York. There, Jamaicans: wicket-keeper Jackie Hendriks and fast bowler Lester King, and Guyanese off-spinner Lance Gibbs and middle order batsman Clive Lloyd met the squad for the Monday departure for Sydney.
