Jamaica observer；2023

https://www.jamaicaobserver.com/cricket/basil-williams-was-a-wonderful-entertainer/

THOSE with a love for cricket are toasting the life of former Jamaica captain and West Indies opening batsman Mr Basil Williams who died in the United States a few days ago at age 65.

Back in the 1970s, Caribbean cricket lovers could depend on radio stations for ball-by-ball coverage of matches at regional and international levels.

Jamaicans lucky enough to have been listening in early March 1978, when Mr Williams became one of a select few to hit a century on Test match debut in Guyana, are unlikely to have forgotten the sense of pride and high excitement.

Mr Williams had only made the West Indies team for the third Test against Australia because of a falling out between the established players and the West Indies Cricket Board of Control. That was over the players' decision to contract their services to Australian television tycoon Mr Kerry Packer.