Bat and Pad – By Geoff Burrowes 

Our family revered cricket. It was our second religion

My mother’s father, my grandfather George Learmond captained a team of West Indian cricketers including the great Leary Constantine’s father   and the excellent Barbadian all rounder Snuffy Brown, who later became British Guianese, to England shortly after the turn of the century. He was a railway engineer and travelled extensively throughout the region in the course of his job. As far as I know he was the only cricketer to have represented Barbados, Trinidad and British Guiana.

He died in St Vincent and is buried there.       Continue reading →