Born 30 May 1909 at Colon, Panama Died 30 November 1983 at Meadowbridge, Kingston, JamaicaOne of the very few players to have a batting average over 60 in Test cricket, George Headley was the first great West Indies batsman. He was born in Panama but moved to Jamaica at the age of 10. He was a short man who was a master of back-foot strokes particularly the cut and played the ball very late. His first Test series was against England in 1930 and he scored 703 runs at an average of 87.87 in four matches including four centuries. His highest Test score of 270* came against England at Kingston in 1935. In first-class cricket he had a batting average of 69.86 with a best of 344* for Jamaica against Lord Tennyson’s XI at Kingston in 1932. His son Ron (West Indies) and grandson Dean (England) both played Test cricket, making the family the first to have three generations of international cricketers.
M Runs HS Avg 100 Ct Wkts Avg BB 5I
Tests 22 2190 270* 60.83 10 14 0 - - 0
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