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Full name Andrew Gordon Ganteaume
Born January 22, 1921, Belmont, Port of Spain, Trinidad
Current age 87 years 265 days
Major teams West Indies,Trinidad
Batting style Right-hand bat
Fielding position Wicketkeeper
Batting and fielding averages
Mat
Inns
NO
Runs
HS
Ave
100
50
4s
6s
Ct
St
Tests
1
1
0
112
112
112.00
1
0
13
0
0
0
First-class
50
85
5
2785
159
34.81
5
17
34
3
Bowling averages
Mat
Inns
Balls
Runs
Wkts
BBI
BBM
Ave
Econ
SR
4w
5w
10
Tests
1
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
First-class
50
51
0
-
-
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-
0
0
0
Career statistics
Only Test
West Indies v England at Port of Spain, Feb 11-16, 1948 scorecard
Test statistics
First-class span
1940/41 - 1962/63
Profile
In one respect Andy Ganteaume, a diminutive wicketkeeper-batsman, eclipsed even Don Bradman. Whereas Bradman ended his career with a Test average of 99.94, Gunteaume's was 112. On his Test debut, against England at Port-of-Spain in 1947-48, he scored 112 and yet he never played for West Indies again. West Indies had a formidable batting line-up around this time - it was the era of Walcott, Worrell, Weekes, Sobers, Kanhai, Rae, Stollmeyer and Gomez - and there were suggestions that he slowed down when nearing his hundred, possibly costing West Indies the chance of victory. Jeff Stollmeyer later wrote: "Andy's innings in its later stages was not in keeping with the state of the game and his captain [Gerry Gomez] was forced to send a message out to him to 'get on with it'." Stollmeyer did concede that Ganteaume was unlucky to miss out on selection for the tour of India the following year. Ganteaume continued to play for Trinidad, and in fact toured England as late as 1957 without getting into the Test side. Steven Lynch
