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Saturday, July 5, 2025

Ganteaume honoured at funeral by family, teammates

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For­mer T&T and West In­dies wick­et­keep­er Andy Gan­teaume will be re­mem­bered for be­ing an in­spi­ra­tion and leader to his fam­i­ly and for­mer team­mates.Gan­teaume, who passed away on Wednes­day at age 95, was laid to rest at the Holy Trin­i­ty Cathe­dral on Aber­crom­by Street in Port-of-Spain, yes­ter­day.

Gan­teaume re­mark­ably end­ed his Test ca­reer with a bat­ting av­er­age of 112, af­ter play­ing on­ly one Test match for West In­dies against Eng­land in 1948 at the Queen's Park Oval in St Clair. He rep­re­sent­ed T&T in 50 first class match­es be­tween 1940 and 1963, re­tir­ing with an av­er­age of 34.81 com­pris­ing five cen­turies and 17 fifties. Be­hind the stumps he had 37 dis­missals (34 catch­es, three stump­ings) at first class lev­el. Gan­teaume was al­so a na­tion­al foot­baller.

Mem­bers of the sport­ing fra­ter­ni­ty in­clud­ing for­mer na­tion­al foot­baller Sed­ley Joseph, and Gan­teaume's for­mer T&T crick­et team­mates Alvin Corneal, Bryan Davis and Deryck Mur­ray were all in at­ten­dance.

Pay­ing trib­ute to their fa­ther were Jacque­line Gan­teaume-Far­rell and Rachel Gan­teaume-Richards, two of his three daugh­ters. They re­flect­ed on the times spent with their fa­ther, read­ing bed­time sto­ries and pray­ing with him be­fore they went to sleep as chil­dren. Gan­teaume, who has an­oth­er daugh­ter named Deb­o­rah, al­ways en­sured they spoke prop­er Eng­lish and was in­volved in his chil­dren's ex­tra-cur­ric­u­lar ac­tiv­i­ties.

For­mer West In­dies wick­et­keep­er Mur­ray had the priv­i­lege of play­ing with him for T&T."We are all at Queen's Park very sad and we of­fer con­do­lences to the fam­i­ly. I had the priv­i­lege of play­ing with him, which was the be­gin­ning of my ca­reer and the end of his," Mur­ray said. "He was very free when giv­ing ad­vice and words of wis­dom. He was a re­al gen­tle­man of the game."

For­mer T&T and West In­dies bats­man Bryan Davis al­so re­flect­ed on the life of Gan­teaume. Davis said Gan­teaume came out of re­tire­ment to help a young T&T team in the 1960s.

"They brought him back in 1963 at age 42 to cap­tain T&T. We were a young team at the time which in­clud­ed Deryck Mur­ray, Alvin Corneal and my­self. My gen­er­a­tion learned a lot from him."

Pres­i­dent of the T&T Crick­et Board, Az­im Bas­sarath, ex­tend­ed con­do­lences on be­half of the na­tion­al crick­et or­gan­i­sa­tion say­ing that the game had lost some­one who epit­o­mised all that was el­e­gant and no­ble in the game.

"He was a gen­uine gen­tle­man, a gift­ed bats­man who al­so rep­re­sent­ed his na­tion at foot­ball and will be re­mem­bered for al­ways car­ry­ing him­self with dig­ni­ty and grace. Andy was a cred­it to the game, who in his lat­er years served as a men­tor to young crick­eters of­fer­ing ad­vice and giv­ing them the ben­e­fit of his vast knowl­edge and ex­pe­ri­ence," said Bas­sarath.


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