deliveries death_date columns catches/stumpings year birth_date bowling tenfor country death_place club fivefor batting name fullname birth_place column role source date runs wickets s/s matches article_title
108 42 31 march 2013 -lrb- aged 62 -rrb- 2 0 / -- 0 / -- 1980 1981 2014 31 august 1950 right-arm medium-fast 0 n/a guyana toronto , ontario , canada essequibo guyana 0 0 right-handed courtney gonsalves courtney alexander gonsalves suddie , british guiana fc la bowler http://cricketarchive.com/archive/players/23/23620/23620.html cricketarchive 31 august 1950 0 8 3 1 0/0 0/0 1 2 courtney gonsalves

courtney gonsalves

courtney alexander gonsalves -lrb- 31 august 1950 -- 31 march 2013 -rrb- was a guyanese cricketer who played a single match for essequibo in the final of the 1980 -- 81 inter-county jones cup , and also represented the guyanese national side in the 1980 -- 81 limited-overs geddes grant/harrison line trophy .
he later coached the canadian national under-19 team .
gonsalves , a right-arm fast bowler , was born in suddie in what was then british guiana -lrb- now part of guyana 's pomeroon-supenaam region -rrb- .
he was one of four essequibo players from suddie , the others being batsmen alfred maycock and lennox alves , and wicket-keeper jeff jones .
in his match for essequibo , played against berbice at the kayman sankar cricket ground in hampton court -lrb- on the atlantic coast -rrb- , gonsalves opened the bowling with egbert stephens in each innings .
he took three wickets from 16 overs in the first innings , finishing with 3/69 , and failed to take a wicket in the second innings , conceding seven runs from two overs .
while batting , he recorded a pair , the only essequibian to do so .
berbice won the match by nine wickets in what was essequibo 's only first-class match -- only the final of the three-team jones cup -lrb- later the guystac trophy -rrb- was accorded first-class status , and essequibo made the final only once , having defeated demerara in an earlier match .
the scorecards of the non-first-class matches played by essequibo are not available before the late 1990s , and it is therefore uncertain how gonsalves performed for essequibo in earlier matches .
however , later in the 1980 -- 81 season , he played in the first two of guyana 's matches in the limited-overs geddes grant/harrison line trophy .
gonsalves made his debut for guyana against the windward islands at arnos vale in kingstown , saint vincent .
he took 1/10 on debut from four overs , opening the bowling with ray joseph and taking the wicket of vincentian opening batsman lance john .
he was less successful in his second match , played a week later against barbados at kensington oval , bridgetown , going wicketless and conceding 20 runs from three overs , mostly to desmond haynes .
gonsalves was the first essequibian to go on to play for the guyanese national side , which was at that time dominated by players from berbice and demerara .
after the conclusion of his playing career , gonsalves took up coaching , and was also at one stage a selector for the guyanese national team .
in 1998 , he was awarded `` coach of the year '' by the guyana cricket board , for his role in coaching north essequibo to victories at several national tournaments .
in later life , gonsalves emigrated to toronto .
he became involved in canadian cricket , and , assisted by pubudu dassanayake , coached the canadian national under-19 side during its unsuccessful attempt to qualify for the 2008 under-19 world cup .
