| Charlie Stayers | |
| Birth Date: | 9 June 1937 |
| Birth Place: | Georgetown, British Guiana |
| Death Place: | London, England |
| Batting: | Right-handed |
| Bowling: | Right-arm fast-medium |
| Columns: | 2 |
| Column1: | Test |
| Matches1: | 4 |
| Runs1: | 58 |
| Bat Avg1: | 19.33 |
| 100S/50S1: | 0/0 |
| Top Score1: | 35* |
| Deliveries1: | 636 |
| Wickets1: | 9 |
| Bowl Avg1: | 40.44 |
| Fivefor1: | 0 |
| Tenfor1: | 0 |
| Best Bowling1: | 3/65 |
| Catches/Stumpings1: | 0/– |
| Column2: | First-class |
| Matches2: | 17 |
| Runs2: | 485 |
| Bat Avg2: | 28.52 |
| 100S/50S2: | 1/2 |
| Top Score2: | 120 |
| Deliveries2: | 3,061 |
| Wickets2: | 68 |
| Bowl Avg2: | 26.10 |
| Fivefor2: | 4 |
| Tenfor2: | 0 |
| Best Bowling2: | 6/36 |
| Catches/Stumpings2: | 3/– |
| International: | true |
| Country: | West Indies |
| Club1: | British Guiana |
| Year1: | 1958/59 to 1961/62 |
| Club2: | Bombay |
| Year2: | 1962/63 |
| Testdebutagainst: | India |
| Testdebutdate: | 16 February |
| Testdebutyear: | 1962 |
| Lasttestdate: | 4 April |
| Lasttestagainst: | India |
| Lasttestyear: | 1962 |
| Source: | http://content-aus.cricinfo.com/ci/content/player/52947.html ESPNcricinfo |
| Date: | 31 October |
| Year: | 2022 |
Sven Conrad "Charlie" Stayers (9 June 1937 – 6 January 2005) was a Guyanese cricketer who played in four Test matches for West Indies in 1962.
Stayers was born in Georgetown in British Guiana, and attended St Stanislaus College there.
Stayers was a tall, loose-limbed right-arm fast bowler and useful right-handed batsman. He played domestic cricket for British Guiana from 1958 to 1961.[1] On his first-class debut against the touring Pakistani team in 1957–58 he took five wickets.[2] He was the most successful bowler in the inter-island tournament in 1961–62, when he took 22 wickets at an average of 18.22, and British Guiana won the tournament.[3] In the victory over Barbados in the final he took 6 for 70 and 3 for 64 and made 83 in the first innings.[4] He played his four Test matches later that season.
Stayers also played for Bombay in the 1962–63 Ranji Trophy season.[5] He was one of four West Indian fast bowlers who played a season of domestic cricket in India in 1962–63 in order to give Indian batsmen more experience of playing fast bowling.[6] He played in the West Zone team that won the Duleep Trophy,[7] and took nine wickets in the final of the Ranji Trophy to help Bombay retain the title.[8]
The Ranji Trophy final, in which he took his best figures, was Stayers' last first-class match. He spent the 1963 English season as the professional for Enfield in the Lancashire League, and stayed in England to study at university. He pursued a career in health management that took him to Nigeria, Uganda, the United States, and back to England, where he died in 2005, aged 67.[9]