Mastering the craft
Subtitle: ten years of Weekes 1948-1958
By: Everton DeCourcey Weekes ; with Hilary McD Beckles ; [foreword by Owen Arthur].
Contributors: Beckles, Hilary, 1955-
Publisher: Universities of the Caribbean Press; In association with the C.L.R. James Centre for Cricket Research, University of the West Indies, Cave Hill Campus
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Jamaica; Barbados
Language: eng
Number of pages: 209
ISBN-13: 9789769520110; 9789769520127
Subjects: Weekes, Everton DeCourcey -- Sir -- 1925 -; Cricket players -- Barbados -- Biography
Genres: Biography
Description: The second youngest and the most diminutive of the famous 3Ws - Worrell, Wekes and Walcott - Everton Weekes was in his day, the most punishing batsman in the world, earning him the sobriquet of the "Butcher".  Some, like the legendary batsman Sir Donald Bradman thought "he was the best batsman ever to come out of the West Indies."  The Everton Weekes experience is the quintessential Caribbean story... a tale of how materially poor households produced citizens who achieved global excellence, on account of brilliant intellect, fierce discipline and determination and extraordinary generosity of spirit.