Frank de Caires

Frank De Caires
Personal information
Full name	Francis Ignatius de Caires
Born	12 May 1909; British Guiana
Died	2 February 1959 (aged 49); British Guiana
Batting	Right-handed
Bowling	Right-arm (unknown style)
International information
National side	West Indies;
Test debut	11 January 1930 v England
Last Test	3 April 1930 v England
Domestic team information
1928–1938	British Guiana
Career statistics
	Source: Cricket Archive, 3 November 2010

Francis Ignatius (Frank) de Caires (12 May 1909 - 2 February 1959) was a British Guianian cricketer who played three Test matches for West Indies in the 1930s.

de Caires was born in British Guiana and developed into a sound right-handed batsman who made his first-class debut for British Guiana against Trinidad at Port of Spain in the 1928/29 Inter-Colonial Tournament, a match Trinidad won comfortably despite de Caires top-scoring in the visitor’s first innings.

When Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) toured the Caribbean the following season, de Caires was selected for three of the four Test matches, including the inaugural one by the West Indies on home soil. Played at Bridgetown, Barbados in January 1930, de Caires performed admirably by scoring 80 runs in the first innings and 70 more in the second to earn his side a creditable draw. Later that year he was selected for the first tour of Australia by a West Indian representative side but failed to make any of the five Test matches. No obituary appeared in Wisden for Frank de Caires after his death.

References

Martin-Jenkins, C. (1996) World Cricketers - A Biographical Dictionary, Oxford University Press: Oxford.
Frindall, B. (ed.) (1995) The Wisden Book of Test Cricket, Volume 1 (1877–1977), Headline Book Publishing.
Lawrence, B. & Goble, R. (1991) The Complete Record of West Indian Test Cricketers, ACL & Polar Publishing (UK) Ltd.