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Tuesday, July 22, 2025

Legendary cricketer Allen passes away

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Sport Desk
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Charles Henry “Jim” Allen.

Charles Henry “Jim” Allen.

BRADES, Montser­rat – The Montser­rat com­mu­ni­ty was plunged in­to mourn­ing on Wednes­day with the death of crick­et icon Charles Hen­ry “Jim” Allen.

Allen passed away around 6.30 pm at the age of 73.

He was wide­ly re­gard­ed as Montser­rat’s great­est crick­eter, hav­ing rep­re­sent­ed the is­land from 1969 to 1984.

Allen, who played two sea­sons for the West In­dies in the Ker­ry Pack­er Se­ries, al­so ex­celled for the Lee­ward Is­lands and Com­bined Is­lands.

He nev­er played Test crick­et for the of­fi­cial West In­dies team, a fact he told jour­nal­ist Ed­win Mar­tin, was the biggest re­gret of his ca­reer.

Born in Har­ris’ Vil­lage, Allen starred in crick­et from a young age and made his de­but for the Montser­rat na­tion­al team in 1969.

On his first-class de­but for the Lee­ward Is­lands on Jan­u­ary 15, 1972, he scored one and 82 against the Wind­ward Is­lands at Roseau.

An at­tack­ing right-hand­ed bats­man with an un­ortho­dox, open-chest, wide-leg bat­ting stance, Allen was soon con­sid­ered a more ex­cit­ing bats­man than his Lee­ward Is­lands’ team­mate Vi­vian Richards.

Allen be­came the first pro­fes­sion­al Montser­ra­t­ian sportsper­son when he be­gan play­ing in Eng­land dur­ing the north­ern sum­mer, turn­ing out for teams in the Lan­cashire and Cheshire Leagues.

His best sea­son was 1976/77, where he scored 559 first-class runs at an av­er­age of 50.81, with a high­est score of 150.

Allen is the fa­ther of Davon Williams and broth­er of George Allen, both of whom rep­re­sent­ed Montser­rat and the Lee­ward Is­lands in first class crick­et.

CMC


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