Maurice Foster (West Indian cricketer), Date of Birth
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About Maurice Foster (West Indian cricketer)
- Maurice Linton Churchill Foster (born May 9, 1943) played 14 Tests and two One Day Internationals for the West Indies and he was a talented table-tennis player.
- He attended Wolmer's Schools. A middle-order batsman and off-spinner, Foster played for Jamaica from 1963-64 to 1977-78, captaining the team from 1972-73 to 1977-78.
- After scoring centuries in the last two matches of the 1968-69 season as an opening batsman, he was selected to tour England in 1969.
- He scored 51 not out and 87 not out in the match against Somerset, and made his Test debut in the First Test, but scored only 4 and 3.
- His next Tests were the Fourth and Fifth against India in 1970-71, when he made 36 not out, 24 not out, 99 and 18.
- Against New Zealand in 1971-72 he made only 93 runs at 23.25 in the first three Tests.
- He made his only Test hundred, 125, in the First Test against Australia in 1972-73 in front of his home crowd at Kingston, putting on 210 for the fifth wicket with Rohan Kanhai, but still played only four of the five Tests in that series.
- He toured England for a second time in 1973.
- Although he scored 828 runs at 63.69 in the first-class matches, his only Test was in the innings victory at Lord's (the only time he was on the winning side in 14 Tests; he made 9 runs).
- Thereafter his appearances were spasmodic as a new generation of batsmen emerged.
- His last Test, and his last first-class match, was in the Fifth Test against Australia in 1977-78 after the leading West Indies players had forfeited their Test places by signing with Kerry Packer. His highest first-class score was 234 for Jamaica against Trinidad in 1976-77, and his best bowling figures were 5 for 65 against Guyana in 1971-72. According to Michael Holding, Foster's career was affected when his wife asked him to choose between her and a tour of India.
- He chose her. The genial Foster was also an excellent table tennis player, and at one time was West Indies champion.
- He is the brother of West Indian table tennis champions Joy Foster and the late Dave Foster.
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