Basil Williams (cricketer)
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Basil Williams is a former West Indian
cricket
er who played in seven Tests
from 1978 to 1979.
He was married to Elaine Williams and together they had two sons, Basil Williams and Germaine Williams, who became the famous rapper known as Canibus
.
He later had a daughter, Gabrielle Williams.
West Indian cricket team
The West Indian cricket team, also known colloquially as the West Indies or the Windies, is a multi-national cricket team representing a sporting confederation of 15 mainly English-speaking Caribbean countries, British dependencies and non-British dependencies.From the mid 1970s to the early 1990s,...
cricket
Cricket
Cricket is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of 11 players on an oval-shaped field, at the centre of which is a rectangular 22-yard long pitch. One team bats, trying to score as many runs as possible while the other team bowls and fields, trying to dismiss the batsmen and thus limit the...
er who played in seven Tests
Test cricket
Test cricket is the longest form of the sport of cricket. Test matches are played between national representative teams with "Test status", as determined by the International Cricket Council , with four innings played between two teams of 11 players over a period of up to a maximum five days...
from 1978 to 1979.
He was married to Elaine Williams and together they had two sons, Basil Williams and Germaine Williams, who became the famous rapper known as Canibus
Canibus
Germaine Williams , better known by his stage name Canibus, is a Jamaican-born American rapper. He is a part of supergroup The HRSMN. Canibus rose to fame in the mid-nineties...
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He later had a daughter, Gabrielle Williams.