Stanley Roy Goodridge (28 October 1928 – 29 September 2016) was a
cricket
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er who played
first-class cricket
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for
Jamaica
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from 1950 to 1954.
A fast bowler, Goodridge made his first-class debut for Jamaica in 1950. In his fourth match, against
British Guiana
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, he took 5 for 73 in the second innings in a Jamaican victory. Two seasons later, he took 5 for 158 against British Guiana. In his next match, against the touring
Indians
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, he took 6 for 28 with "hostile and accurate" fast bowling in the first innings to dismiss them for 140.
He played one further match for Jamaica in early 1954 before moving to
County Durham
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in
England
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to play as a professional for Seaham Park in the
Durham County Cricket League.
Margaret Busby
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"Connie Mark: Community activist and Caribbean champion"
(obituary), ''The Guardian
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'', 16 June 2007. Retrieved 29 October 2014. He played two non-first-class matches for
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in 1956. In one, he took five wickets against Yorkshire, all of
Test cricket
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ers.
Durham v Yorkshire, 1956
Cricket Archive.
Personal life
In 1952, Goodridge married fellow Jamaican Connie Mark
Constance Winifred Mark, MBE, BEM (née McDonald, previously Goodridge; 21 December 1923 – 3 June 2007) was a Jamaican-born community organiser and activist. She served as a medical secretary in the Auxiliary Territorial Service in World Wa ...
(1923–2007), medical secretary and later an activist for West Indians in London
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, with whom he had a son and daughter. The couple later divorced.[
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References
External links
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Stanley Goodridge at CricketArchive
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1928 births
2016 deaths
Cricketers from Kingston, Jamaica
Jamaica cricketers
Jamaican cricketers
20th-century Jamaican sportsmen