West Indies batsman caught up in the racial politics of colonial cricket,who made a century on his international debut and never played another TestThe West Indies cricketer Andy Ganteaume, who has died aged 95, or had the extraordinary and unenviable record of scoring a century in his only Test match innings – and never again appearing on the international stage.
A victim of the obtuse (lacking quickness of sensibility or intellect) racial politics that prevailed in postwar colonial British West Indies,his 112 against England in 1948 was deemed insufficient by the white selectors to win him a recall for the next Test – or any other during the rest of his career. That weird circumstance allowed him to finish with a better Test batting average than the great Sir Donald Bradman and to achieve a far greater degree of fame as a one-hit wonder than he would likely acquire attained had he played more games at the highest level.
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Source: theguardian.com