Steve Camacho : Dead at 69

                                  Born  October 15, 1945, Georgetown, Demerara, British Guiana

                                  Died October 2, 2015, Antigua

aged 69 years 352 days 

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Steve Camacho came from a solid cricketing background :

his grandfather, GC Learmond,  played first-class cricket for Barbados and Trinidad............


slips while ducking under a bouncer, West Indies v England, 3rd Test, Bridgetown, 1st day, February 29, 1968

                                 

He definitely had good genes. His father George Camacho and uncle Angus Learmond also played for British Guiana.

As Manager of the West Indies Team with Dujon, Logie and Davis; and at the 1983 World Cup

   
                   

sundominica.com/articles/wicb-tribute-to-steve-camacho-2722/

Oct. 3, 2015

ST. JOHN'S, Antigua – The West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) today paid tribute to Steve Camacho,

the former Manager of the West Indies Team and Chief Executive Officer of the WICB,

who died on Friday night in Antigua.

As a schoolboy, Stephen Camacho represented St Stanislaus College, in Georgetown, for five years and in his last year at school

was Captain of cricket. He played for the Guyana Colts against Australia in Georgetown in 1964 and hit a brilliant 157.

in 1968, Camacho made his first class debut for Guyana against Australia, at Bourda. Later in 1968 he was selected to play

for the Presidents XI against the MCC in Barbados. Opening with Geoffrey Greenidge, he made 85 and earned a place as an opening batsman in the West Indies team. He played in all five Test matches against the MCC in the West Indies in 1968, scoring 328 runs for an average of 32.80, with a highest score of 87 in Trinidad.

He played a total of 11 Tests, his sober style perfectly complementing the expansive batsmanship of his opening partners Roy Fredericks

and Seymour Nurse. He topped the averages in England in 1969 but never made a Test hundred.

A poor series against India in 1970 - 71, signalled the end of his Test career.

After retirement in 1979, Camacho embarked on a long and distinguished career serving West Indies cricket, first as a selector then secretary and later as chief executive of the WICB.

In 2000 Camacho retired as WICB chief executive. In August 2003, Camacho was nominated by the Guyana Cricket Board

for the post of WICB president, which became vacant when Wes Hall retired (because of ill health) after holding the post for two years.

Stephen Camacho was the author of a 112-page hardback book (ISBN 13: 9789769507586; ISBN 10: 976950758X) named

"Cricket at Bourda: Celebrating the Georgetown Cricket Club", 

which was published on 01 January 2007 ....

www.guyana-cricket.com/node/5185                                  

www.espncricinfo.com/westindies/content/story/925593.html

In an 11-Test career between 1968 and 1971 :

Camacho scored 640 runs, and played in several outstanding West Indies teams


alongside Sir Garfield Sobers, Sir Wes Hall, Clive Lloyd, Lance Gibbs, Roy Fredericks and Rohan Kanhai.

Rip to Steve Camacho! I guess he was one of the few remaining wicb presidents of the era when West indies cricket was properly administrated.