Ken Ablack
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| Bowling | Slow left arm orthodox | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Robert Kenneth Ablack (5 January 1919 – 15 December 2010) was a Trinidadian broadcaster and
first class cricketer
.
Born in Port of Spain, Trinidad he was a left-arm orthodox spinner who appeared for Northamptonshire County Cricket Club between 1946 and 1949. Ablack also appeared for a West Indies XI in 1944 and for Learie Constantine's XI in 1944 and 1945. He played regularly for UK-based team West Indies Wanderers. His best bowling, three wickets for 32 runs (3/32), came against Glamorgan, a game in which he recorded match figures of 5/68.[1]
Ablack later became a producer for
BBC Overseas Service and a BBC cricket commentator, becoming a member of the first Test Match Special broadcast team. In 1962 he left the United Kingdom and returned to Trinidad and Tobago
, where he resided up until his death in 2010.
References
- CricInfo. Retrieved 2022-05-21.
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