In this week’s edition of In Search of West Indies Cricket, in the first of two parts, Roger Seymour looks at the early cricketing life of Jackie Grant. The writer has prepared a speech for Grant’s induction into the West Indies Cricket Hall of Fame (it is hoped that there will be an official one in the future). The cricket data and information is accurate, the presentation is the writer’s imagination.
Saturday, March 1, 2031, 5.30 pm: The Tenth Annual West Indies Cricket Hall of Fame Induction ceremony, Bridgetown, Barbados
After opening remarks by the Chairman of the event, Hall of Fame President Alexander Ferguson, Lindsay Geddes Grant, a great nephew of Jackie Grant,