Gerry Gomez

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Gerry Gomez

Gerry Gomez in 1950
Cricket information
Batting style	Left-handed batsman
Bowling style	Right-arm medium, offbreak
International information
National side	West Indian
Career statistics
Competition Tests First-class Matches 29 126 Runs scored 1243 6764 Batting average 30.31 43.63 100s/50s 1/8 14/29 Top score 101 216* Balls bowled 5236 15178 Wickets 58 200 Bowling average 27.41 26.33 5 wickets in innings 1 5 10 wickets in match 1 2 Best bowling 7/55 9/24 Catches/stumpings 18/0 92/0
Source: [1]

Gerry Ethridge Gomez (10 October 1919 – 6 August 1996) was a West Indian cricketer who played 29 Tests for the West Indies between 1939 and 1954, scoring 1,243 runs and taking 58 wickets. He captained in one match for the West Indies when England toured in 1947/8.

Gomez was born in Port of Spain, Trinidad. During his career at the domestic level, he was an all-rounder of good standard, playing 126 matches and scoring runs at a batting average of nearly 45, in addition to taking 200 wickets at an average just above 25 with his medium pace.

He remained involved with cricket, as manager and administrator, and also served as an umpire in the Test match between West Indies and Australia in Georgetown, Guyana, in April 1965, when the appointed umpire, Cecil Kippins, pulled out on the day before the match. Kippins was ordered to withdraw by the British Guiana umpires' association, as Barbadian umpire Cortez Jordan was appointed as the second umpire, the first time a West Indian umpire had stood in a Test match outside his home territory.[2] This was the first first-class match that Gomez umpired, and his only Test as an umpire.

Gomez also played football for Trinidad, and both his father and his son played first class cricket.

In June 1988 Gomez was celebrated on the $1.50 Trinidad and Tobago stamp alongside the Barbados Cricket Buckle.

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