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 No roll of honour of all-time great batsmen seems to be complete without Sachin Tendulkar, and the list of West Indian legend Sir Everton Weekes is no exception. Weekes, one of the three W’s of cricket history along with Clyde Walcott and Sir Frank Worrel, rated Tendulkar amongst the six greatest batsmen ever.
“Tendulkar has to be one of the six batsmen of all-time in my list. He has to be one of the best. A few shots he managed during this Test spoke of his class,” Weekes said referring to the Indian’s 79-run knock in the rain-interrupted first Test which ended in a tame draw on Monday.
“And there is one more Indian in this six and you know who I am referring to,” Weekes said, referring to another little genius, Sunil Gavaskar who made 10,122 runs from 125 Tests with 34 hundreds including 13 against the fearsome West Indian fast bowlers. Gavaskar averaged a superb 65.45 against West Indies totalling 2749 runs from 27 Tests.
However, Weekes did not reveal the other four names that comprise his top six. And he is too modest to even suggest that he himself could easily have found a place in the list.
His record of 4,455 runs from 48 Tests at an average of 58.62 with 15 centuries is formidable enough and includes a world record of five consecutive Test hundreds that has not been bettered even after more than 50 years. Weekes was run out on 90 while going for his sixth straight century.
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