Rohan Kanhai

"No more technically correct batsman ever came out of the West Indies than Rohan Kanhai" – Michael Manley

"His life was gentle; and the elements so mixed in him, that Nature might stand up, and say to all the world, THIS WAS A MAN!" – William Shakespeare

"To see Kanhai flat on his back – with the ball among the crowd beyond the square-leg boundary – after making one of his outrageous sweeps to a good length ball, is to watch a man capable of playing shots fit to lay before an audience of emperors" – James Scott, May 1966, on the occasion of Guyana’s Independence

"Kanhai discovered, created a new dimension in batting…He had found his way into regions Bradman never knew." – CLR James

"Some batsmen play brilliantly sometimes and at ordinary times they go ahead as usual. That one… is different from all of them. On certain days, before he goes into the wicket, he makes up his mind to let them have it. And once he is that way nothing on earth can stop him. Some of his colleagues in the pavilion who have played with him for years have seen strokes that they have never seen before: from him or anybody else" – Sir Learie Constantine to CLR James, on Kanhai

"I remember my first sight of Rohan Kanhai batting at Bourda in 1956. I wrote that night to my father in Trinidad that I had just been witness to a wonder, the best batsman in the world. This was a big claim – after all I had seen, among others, the great Frank Worrell at his elegant best. But I was sure then and I was sure thereafter as I followed Kanhai’s career…of all the sportsmen in all the many sports I have watched in my life I judge Kanhai to have possessed the most compelling genius of them all…It was, quite simply, a special gift from the gods." – Ian McDonald

"Rohan Kanhai was a great player…and he was rated one of the tops…a good cricket brain…earned the respect of his players." – Sir Garfield Sobers

"His niche in West Indies cricket…is assured, as is his place in the hearts of all who treasure human excellence in any form" – Michael Gibbes

"The man of genius inspires us with a boundless confidence in our own powers"- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"It is hard to believe that there could be better players than Rohan Kanhai. I have seen him score tons for Warwickshire on all sorts of pitches — against Derek Underwood on turning tracks and against Alan Ward and Harold Rhodes on a corrugated flyer against Derbyshire. Rohan got hundreds on both occasions. Nobody can be a finer cricketer than Garfield Sobers or Ian Botham but somehow Kanhai hardly gets a mention. I stood at the other end many times completely in awe of him" – Dennis Amiss on his former Warwickshire teammate Rohan Kanhai

Rohan opened the doors for others to follow. Perhaps "opened" is a mild word. Kanhai blasted the door open for other West Indians to follow. After all, his book was aptly entitled, "Blasting for Runs."

In fact, Gavaskar, Kallicharran and Bob Marley named their sons after Rohan Kanhai,

and many West Indians all over the Caribbean are named after him, a testimony to Kanhai’s greatness.

Gavaskar also hoped that his son Rohan would be at least half as good as the original Rohan Babulal Kanhai

which he said would make him very proud indeed!

We will never see his like again…Remember the man!

Albert Baldeo, a former District Leader in NY, is President of The Liberty Justice Center and Baldeo Foundation

a community organization dedicated to the fight for community improvement, justice, equal rights, public safety

dignity and inclusion in the decision making process.

Rohan is indeed the most technique bats ~

Happy Birthday to the original Master Blaster !

85 years old today ! 1935 born ~

www.espncricinfo.com/story/john-edrich-t...dies-aged-83-1245097

Rest In Peace : John Edrich dead at 83

Edrich played 77 Tests between 1963 and 1976, most often as a fearless left-handed opener

"His duels with some of the world's best fast bowlers were legendary,

and it's a testament to his ability that his 310 not out against New Zealand in 1965

remains the fifth highest "

Rohan was Guyana's best ?

Lloyd was Captain of the big squad

Gibbs was the best Spin ?

www.stabroeknews.com/2020/12/25/sports/r...anhai-is-85-not-out/

www.espncricinfo.com/story/robin-jackman...dies-aged-75-1245165

Robin Jackman was refused Entry into Guyana ! Rest In Peace .

However, he was arguably most famous for the match that he did not play, at Guyana

England's tour of the West Indies in 1980-81, when his connections to Apartheid South Africa

- through his wife Yvonne, and through his longstanding cricketing association with the country -

led to the cancellation of the second Test of the series.