Stanley Goodridge

Stanley Roy Goodridge (28 October 1928 – 29 September 2016) was a cricketer who played first-class cricket for Jamaica from 1950 to 1954.[1]

Stanley Goodridge
Personal information
Full nameStanley Roy Goodridge
Born28 October 1928
Kingston, Jamaica
Died29 September 2016 (age 87)
London, United Kingdom
Height6 ft 2 in (1.88 m)
BattingRight-handed
BowlingRight-arm fast-medium
Domestic team information
YearsTeam
1949-50 to 1953-54Jamaica
Career statistics
Competition First-class
Matches 9
Runs scored 137
Batting average 11.41
100s/50s 0/0
Top score 33
Balls bowled 1834
Wickets 26
Bowling average 33.53
5 wickets in innings 3
10 wickets in match 0
Best bowling 6/28
Catches/stumpings 7/0
Source: Cricket Archive, 28 October 2014

A fast bowler, Stanley Goodridge made his first-class debut for Jamaica in 1950. In his fourth match, against British Guiana, he took 5 for 73 in the second innings in a Jamaican victory.[2] Two seasons later he took 5 for 158 against British Guiana.[3] In his next match, against the touring Indians, he took 6 for 28 with "hostile and accurate"[4] fast bowling in the first innings to dismiss them for 140.[5]

He played one further match for Jamaica in early 1954 before moving to County Durham in England to play as a professional for Seaham Park in the Durham County Cricket League.[6] He played two non-first-class matches for Durham in 1956. In one, he took five wickets against Yorkshire, all of Test cricketers.[7]

He married in 1952 fellow Jamaican Connie Mark MBE BEM (1923–2007), medical secretary and later an activist for West Indians in London, with whom he had a son and daughter. They later divorced.[6]

References
  1. "Stanley Goodridge". Cricinfo. Retrieved 13 June 2020.
  2. Jamaica v British Guiana, 1950–51, Cricket Archive.
  3. British Guiana v Jamaica 1952-53, Cricket Archive.
  4. Wisden, 1954, p. 832.
  5. Jamaica v Indians, 1952–53, Cricket Archive.
  6. Margaret Busby, "Connie Mark: Community activist and Caribbean champion" (obituary), The Guardian, 16 June 2007. Retrieved 29 October 2014.
  7. Durham v Yorkshire, 1956, Cricket Archive.


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