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Clifford Everard Goodman (20 November 1869 – 1 February 1911), was a Barbadian cricketer of the 1890s. A right-arm fast bowler, Goodman was educated at The Lodge School, Barbados."Obituary", ''Cricket'', 29 April 1911, p. 98. He stood at 6 ft 4ins and took 126 wickets at 10.70 in his 15 match first-class career. During his five-year first-class career he was almost always successful and was described after his death in 1911 as "perhaps the best bowler the West Indies ever had, and a good hitter too". He played in all 14 Barbados matches from 1891–92 to 1896–97. He was also selected for the combined West Indies against Priestley's side in 1896–97, taking 9 wickets in the match, which the West Indies team won. In the match for Barbados that preceded the West Indies match, he took 8 for 40 and 6 for 50 in Barbados's 136-run victory over Priestley's XI. His younger brother
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was also one of the top West Indian players of his day and toured England in 1900 and 1906. Clifford (eight wickets) and Percy (ten wickets) dismissed
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for 35 and 41 to win the final of the
Inter-Colonial Tournament The Inter-Colonial Tournament was the main first class cricket competition in the West Indies held between 1892-93 and 1938-39. Competing teams * Barbados * British Guiana * Trinidad In the early tournaments British Guiana were sometimes ...
for Barbados in 1893–94. Two other brothers,
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and Evans, also played first-class cricket. All four brothers played for Barbados in the 1893-94 match, when Aubrey captained the team.


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