Fitz Garraway | |
Country: | Guyana |
Birth Date: | 5 September 1947 |
Birth Place: | Dartmouth, British Guiana |
Batting: | Right-handed |
Role: | Batsman |
Club1: | Essequibo |
Year1: | 1980 |
Columns: | 1 |
Column1: | First-class |
Matches1: | 1 |
Runs1: | 48 |
Bat Avg1: | 24.00 |
100S/50S1: | 0/0 |
Top Score1: | 31 |
Hidedeliveries: | true |
Catches/Stumpings1: | 2/– |
Date: | 1 December |
Year: | 2014 |
Source: | https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/23/23586/23586.html CricketArchive |
Fitz Garraway (born 5 September 1947) is a former Guyanese cricketer who played a single first-class match for Essequibo in the final of the 1980–81 inter-county Jones Cup. Aged 33, he was the oldest player on the side, a year older than Beni Sankar.
Born in Dartmouth in what was then British Guiana (now part of Guyana's Pomeroon-Supenaam region),[1] Garraway opened the batting with Kamroze Mohammed in both innings of the match, played against Berbice at the Kayman Sankar Cricket Ground in Hampton Court (on the Atlantic coast).[2] He scored 31 runs in the first innings, before being caught by Milton Pydanna, a future West Indies ODI wicket-keeper,[3] off the bowling of Suresh Ganouri. In the second innings, he scored 17 runs, before being bowled by Leslaine Lambert.[2] Garraway also recorded a single catch in Berbice's first innings, dismissing one of their opening batsman, Tyrone Etwaroo, from Courtenay Gonsalves' medium-fast bowling. He was one of two Essequibo players from Dartmouth in the match, the other being fast bowler Egbert Stephens.[4]
Berbice won the match by nine wickets in what was Essequibo's only first-class match – only the final of the three-team Jones Cup (later the Guystac Trophy) was accorded first-class status, and Essequibo made the final only once, having defeated Demerara in an earlier match.[5] The scorecards of the non-first-class matches played by Essequibo are not available before the late 1990s, and it is therefore uncertain how Garraway played for Essequibo (if at all) in earlier matches.[6]