Derick Recaldo Parry (born 22 December 1954) is a former
cricketer
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from
St Kitts and Nevis who played 12
Tests
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and six
One Day International
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s for the
West Indies
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.
Parry was a lower-order right-handed batsman and a right-arm
off-break
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bowler.
Parry's international career came to an end after he joined the
rebel tours to South Africa in 1982–83 and 1983–84, defying the
international sporting boycott of the
apartheid
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state.
Parry spent 15 seasons between 1981 and 1996 as the professional at Horden CC in the Durham Senior League, missing only the 1992 season in this spell.
References
1954 births
Living people
Combined Islands cricketers
Leeward Islands cricketers
West Indies One Day International cricketers
West Indies Test cricketers
Nevisian cricketers
Cambridgeshire cricketers
Saint Kitts and Nevis expatriate sportspeople in England
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