Larry Gomes

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Larry Gomes

West Indies
Batting style	Left-hand bat
Bowling style	Right-arm off-break Right-arm medium pace
Career statistics
	Tests	ODIs
Matches	60	83
Runs scored	3171	1415
Batting average	39.63	28.87
100s/50s	9/13	1/6
Top score	143	101

Balls bowled	2401	1345
Wickets	15	41
Bowling average	62.00	25.48
5 wickets in innings	-	-
10 wickets in match	-	n/a
Best bowling	2/20	4/31
Catches/stumpings	18/-	14/-
As of 25 January 2006 Source: [1]

Hilary Angelo Gomes (born July 13, 1953 in Arima, Trinidad and Tobago) is a former West Indian cricketer.

He toured England with the West Indian Schoolboys team in 1967 and he made his first-class debut as a left-handed batsman for Trinidad and Tobogo versus the New Zealanders in 1971/72. He joined Middlesex in 1972 and played between 1973 and 1976. He won a Benson & Hedges Cup Gold Award.

He became a successful number three batsman for Trinidad and West Indies. He was also part of the team which reached the 1983 Cricket World Cup finals in England. Larry's flamboyant Fuzzball Afro was not matched by flamboyant strokeplay, he regularly kept bat and pad close together. In an Indian summer to his career, some 20 years after touring England as a schoolboy cricketer, he was named Wisden Cricketer of the Year in 1985 and the Larry Gomes Stadium in Malabar, Arima, is named after him.

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v • d • e West Indies squad - 1983 Cricket World Cup (runners-up)

1 Lloyd (c) • 2 Bacchus • 3 Daniel • 4 Davis • 5 Dujon (wk) • 6 Garner • 7 Gomes • 8 Greenidge • 9 Haynes • 10 Holding • 11 Logie • 12 Marshall • 13 Richards • 14 Roberts