Roy Fredericks

Roy Fredericks
Personal information
Full name	Roy Clifton Fredericks
Born	11 November 1942; East Bank, Berbice, Guyana
Died	5 September 2000 (aged 57); New York City, United States
Batting	Left-handed
Bowling	Slow left-arm orthodox
Relations	3 daughters and 1 son
International information
National side	West Indies;
Test debut	26 December 1968 v Australia
Last Test	15 April 1977 v Pakistan
ODI debut	5 September 1973 v England
Last ODI	16 March 1977 v Pakistan
Domestic team information
1963–1983	Guyana
1971–1973	Glamorgan
Career statistics
	Source: Cricket Archive, 17 October 2010

Roy Clifton Fredericks (11 November 1942, Blairmont, British Guiana – 5 September 2000, New York, U.S.) was a West Indian cricketer who played Test cricket from 1968 to 1977.

He was an opening batsman for the West Indies in both Test cricket and one day cricket, and made 4334 Test runs in a career spanning only nine years. ODIs were infrequent in Fredericks' time, and subsequently he only appeared in 12 matches, making 311 runs.

At the first-class level, he represented Glamorgan Cricket Club in English domestic cricket and British Guiana and Guyana. He had a number of opening partners in the Test team before establishing a successful partnership with Gordon Greenidge in the mid-1970s. He was an aggressive batsman who liked to counterattack fast bowlers, but also was capable as a traditional accumulator of runs.

His highest Test score was 169 against Australia at Perth in 1975-76. After Australia had been dismissed early on the second day, in 90 minutes batting before lunch the West Indies scored 130 for 1 off 14 eight-ball overs, and after lunch Fredericks reached his century off only 71 balls, at the time the quickest ever. The West Indies won the match by an innings.^[1]

Roy was fondly nicknamed Freddo by those who knew him. He was an all-rounder sportsman and represented his country, Guyana, also in Table Tennis and Squash.

Fredericks was a Wisden Cricketer of the Year in 1974.

He was appointed the Minister of Youths and Sport in Guyana in the Forbes Burnham regime.^[2]

References

Notes

^ Wisden 1977, p.887.
^ "The Hindu : Scoring politically". Retrieved 2 December 2014.

External links

[1] Wisden 1977, p.887.

[2] "The Hindu : Scoring politically". Retrieved 2 December 2014.

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