| John Trim | |
| Birth Date: | 25 January 1915 |
| Birth Place: | Port Mourant, Berbice, British Guiana |
| Death Place: | New Amsterdam, Berbice, British Guiana |
| Batting: | Right-handed |
| Bowling: | Right-arm fast-medium |
| Club1: | British Guiana |
| Columns: | 2 |
| Column1: | Tests |
| Matches1: | 4 |
| Runs1: | 21 |
| Bat Avg1: | 5.25 |
| 100S/50S1: | 0/0 |
| Top Score1: | 12 |
| Deliveries1: | 794 |
| Wickets1: | 18 |
| Bowl Avg1: | 16.16 |
| Fivefor1: | 1 |
| Tenfor1: | 0 |
| Best Bowling1: | 5/34 |
| Catches/Stumpings1: | 2/0 |
| Column2: | First-class |
| Matches2: | 34 |
| Runs2: | 386 |
| Bat Avg2: | 11.69 |
| 100S/50S2: | 0/1 |
| Top Score2: | 78* |
| Deliveries2: | 5898 |
| Wickets2: | 95 |
| Bowl Avg2: | 30.32 |
| Fivefor2: | 4 |
| Tenfor2: | 1 |
| Best Bowling2: | 7/80 |
| Catches/Stumpings2: | 17/0 |
| International: | true |
| Country: | West Indies |
| Testdebutdate: | 3 March |
| Testdebutyear: | 1948 |
| Lasttestdate: | 31 December |
| Lasttestyear: | 1951 |
| Source: | http://content-aus.cricinfo.com/ci/content/player/53131.html CricInfo |
| Date: | 31 March |
| Year: | 2014 |
John Trim (25 January 1915 – 12 November 1960) was a West Indian cricketer who played in four Tests from 1948 to 1952. A barrel-chested right-arm fast-medium bowler and right-handed lower-order batsman from Berbice, British Guiana,[1] Trim's brief international career yielded 18 wickets at one of the lowest bowling averages of any completed career – 16.16 runs per wicket. In his first class career from 1944 to 1953 he played 34 matches, mostly for British Guiana, taking 96 wickets and making a solitary half-century with the bat.[2]
Trim's Test debut came during the 1947–48 tour of the West Indies by Gubby Allen's England team. Trim took two wickets for an economical six runs in his first outing, with a further wicket in England's second innings.[3] It was Trim's only match of the series, but he would tour India in January 1949, taking 4/48 and 3/28 in Chennai and 3/69 in Mumbai.[4] He was then selected for the West Indian tour of Australia 1951–52 and took his career-best figures: a maiden five wicket haul of 5/35 at the Melbourne Cricket Ground. His omission from the 1950 touring party to England created “an almighty row” and almost led to the British Guiana Cricket Association boycotting the tour.[5]
Trim was the first Berbician to play Test cricket. He continued to play cricket in the Caribbean until 1953. He died in New Amsterdam, Berbice.