Leon Garrick
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Leon Vivian Garrick is a Jamaica
n cricket
er. He played only one Test
and three One Day Internationals for West Indies
in 2001. Prior to playing Test cricket he played for Jamaica senior and youth teams, most notably in the domestic competition in 1997 he made successive centuries that helped to announce his presence. He learned his craft under the guidance of Derrick Azan at the Garvey Maceo High School in Jamaica, an institution renowned for its excellence in School boy cricket in Jamaica, having produced the now deceased West Indies all rounder Laurie Williams, Keith Hibbert, Audley Sanson who represented Jamaica at the Senior level. Whilst at Garvey Maceo he played alongside Andrew Davis and Rohan Belight both of whom represented Jamaica at the Under-19 level. Leon has played for Middlesex in the Jamaica County Competition and also the Kaiser Sports Club. He was a brilliant bastman who was comfortable playing any type of bowling and it must be recalled that he was also adept at fielding, donning the wicket keeper gloves, a role that he mastered whilst at Garvey Maceo.
Leon Garrick has the record for the largest opening partnership with fellow Jamaican team mate Chris Gayle the partner ship was worth 425 with Garrick scoring 200 runs and Gayle scoring 208 runs with both batsmen not out.
Jamaica
Jamaica is an island nation of the Greater Antilles, in length, up to in width and 10,990 square kilometres in area. It is situated in the Caribbean Sea, about south of Cuba, and west of Hispaniola, the island harbouring the nation-states Haiti and the Dominican Republic...
n 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. He played only one Test
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...
and three One Day Internationals for West Indies
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,...
in 2001. Prior to playing Test cricket he played for Jamaica senior and youth teams, most notably in the domestic competition in 1997 he made successive centuries that helped to announce his presence. He learned his craft under the guidance of Derrick Azan at the Garvey Maceo High School in Jamaica, an institution renowned for its excellence in School boy cricket in Jamaica, having produced the now deceased West Indies all rounder Laurie Williams, Keith Hibbert, Audley Sanson who represented Jamaica at the Senior level. Whilst at Garvey Maceo he played alongside Andrew Davis and Rohan Belight both of whom represented Jamaica at the Under-19 level. Leon has played for Middlesex in the Jamaica County Competition and also the Kaiser Sports Club. He was a brilliant bastman who was comfortable playing any type of bowling and it must be recalled that he was also adept at fielding, donning the wicket keeper gloves, a role that he mastered whilst at Garvey Maceo.
Leon Garrick has the record for the largest opening partnership with fellow Jamaican team mate Chris Gayle the partner ship was worth 425 with Garrick scoring 200 runs and Gayle scoring 208 runs with both batsmen not out.