West Indies worst ever Test batsman?

Poor Floyd Reifer. 8 of his 11 innings were single-figure scores. I think he has to be in contention for worst Test batsman ever.

All numbers are post-World War II, a minimum of 10 innings, and excluding wicketkeepers.

there is a lot of hope in Hope! 

Wasn't Bruce Pairaudeau a highly touted youngster? I seem to recall him putting up some big numbers in the Lancashire League, and then scored a century on his Test debut, but nothing after that.

guyana-cricket.com/article/catching-bruce-pairaudeau

He was a teenaged prodigy for British Guiana, as it then was, scoring the first of his

11 first-class hundreds, 130 against Jamaica at Bourda in 1947, aged 16.

In a golden era of West Indies batting, he had to wait until 1953

before he finally got a place in the Test team. He marked it with 115

in his debut innings, against India at the Queen’s Park Oval,

sharing a partnership of 219 with Weekes 

Sadly, a bit before my time, but remember hearing about his exploits in the Lancashire Leagues.

Some more great tidbits in this feature article too:

www.cricketcountry.com/articles/bruce-pa...lunket-shield-125226

A few highlights:

• Pairaudeau made his First-Class debut against Trinidad at 15 years 335 days, then a Guyanese record (the record has subsequently been bettered by Ramnaresh Sarwan, who had started his First-Class career at 15 years 245 days).
• One of the three Frenchmen to have played Test cricket (the other two being Andy Ganteaume and Richie Benaud: of course, he had missed John Benaud).
• The third West Indian (after George Headley and Ganteaume) and first Guyanese to score a Test hundred on debut.
• A champion table-tennis player

sylvester joseph was bad and was touted as a star

What is telling  from the above stats are that there is only two persons of Indo heritage . Indos are not allowed to fail , they are discarded very quickly but  Afros Windians are given long a run