West Indies batting great Seymour Nurse passes away

The Barbados middle-order batsman made his Test debut in 1960 and went on to play 29 Tests for West Indies in which he scored 2,523 runs with six hundreds and ten fifties

Legendary West Indian batsman, Seymour Nurse, passed away on Monday at the age of 85 after prolonged illness. The former Windies cricketer is survived by his twin daughters. The Barbados middle-order batsman made his Test debut in 1960 and went on to play 29 Tests for West Indies in which he scored 2,523 runs with six hundreds and ten fifties. Barbados cricketer Desmond Haynes shared the news of his death on Monday in a Facebook post. "My coach my mentor, we all from the holders hill area love this man, we used to walk like Seymour bat like him and try to talk like him. Thanks for everything you have done for me. May he rest in peace and rise in glory," ESPNcricinfo quoted Haynes as saying in the post. It was not until the 1966 West Indies tour of England that Nurse established himself in the side as he scored 501 runs in five Tests, including four fifties and a hundred. In 1967, he was named Wisden Cricketer of the Year. After retirement, he served as a Barbados selector, a team manager and was also a long-standing coach at the Barbados National Sports Council.