People in the Caribbean are mourning Sir Everton Weekes’s death with sad and heavy hearts. Sir Donald Bradman who first saw him in Australia in the early 1950s thought that he was the best of the three Ws. Sir Everton who played in 48 Tests, finished his Test career with an average of 58.61, scoring 15 centuries, five of them in consecutive innings, a record that still stands. He was denied a sixth century in Madras when he was unfortunately run out on 90. He never believed in hitting the ball in the air and throughout his distinguished Test career only hit one six!

Former Australian captain Richie Benaud once said that Weekes was a butcher of fast and slow bowling and was similar to Bradman in his stroke play and his attitude to batting.