Ken Weekes
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| Batting style | Left-hand bat | |
| Bowling type | Left-arm | |
| Tests | First-class | |
| Matches | 2 | 30 |
| Runs scored | 173 | 1,731 |
| Batting average | 57.66 | 40.25 |
| 100s/50s | 1/0 | 4/12 |
| Top score | 137 | 146 |
| Balls bowled | 0 | 1,140 |
| Wickets | 0 | 12 |
| Bowling average | - | 38.66 |
| 5 wickets in innings | 0 | 0 |
| 10 wickets in match | 0 | 0 |
| Best bowling | -/- | 3/84 |
| Catches/stumpings | 0/0 | 21/1 |
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Test debut: 24 June 1939 |
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Kenneth Hunnel (Bam Bam) Weekes (born January 24, 1912, Boston, Massachusetts, U.S., died February 9, 1998, Brooklyn, New York, U.S.) was a West Indian cricketer who played in two Tests in 1939.
He was the first Test cricketer to be born in the United States; as of 2007, the only other US-born cricketer to have played at that level is the Sri Lankan Jehan Mubarak.
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