Ryan Ba­choo

For­mer West In­dies spin­ner, Raph­ick Ju­madeen, passed away on Tues­day night. His fam­i­ly con­firmed the 75-year-old's pass­ing but could not give any fur­ther de­tails on his death.

A left-armed spin­ner high­ly re­gard­ed around the Caribbean, Ju­madeen played 12 Test match­es for the West In­dies be­tween 1972 and 1979 tak­ing 29 wick­ets. His best fig­ures at the in­ter­na­tion­al lev­el were 6-162.

Ju­madeen, who was born in Har­mo­ny Hall, Gas­par­il­lo, made his Test de­but at the Queen's Park Oval on April 20 against New Zealand. He fin­ished the drawn match with one wick­et, the scalp of Bri­an Hast­ings. In­ter­est­ing­ly, Ju­madeen has a Test half-cen­tu­ry (56) to his name against In­dia in Kan­pur, though he end­ed his in­ter­na­tion­al ca­reer with a to­tal of 84 runs al­to­geth­er.

How­ev­er, it was at the re­gion­al lev­el, Ju­madeen would make and leave his mark. He played First Class crick­et for T&T for 14 years be­tween 1967 and 1981. In 99 First Class match­es, Ju­madeen took 347 wick­ets. That in­clud­ed 16 five-wick­et hauls and three 10-wick­et hauls.

He al­so played 17 List A match­es tak­ing 21 wick­ets. Af­ter his ca­reer, Ju­madeen went in­to coach­ing spend­ing some time at W Con­nec­tion Wan­der­ers. In 2008, he was named by the West In­dies Crick­et Board as a se­lec­tor. Clyde Butts, the for­mer West In­dies off-spin­ner was ap­point­ed the chair­man of se­lec­tors and the pan­el al­so com­prised oth­er for­mer play­ers in Ju­madeen, Robert Haynes, Court­ney Browne, Ne­hemi­ah Per­ry and Stu­art Williams.