A great cricketer and at one time the dude was the soul of the Guyana cricket team during the Shell shield competition of the 1980's

STEPHEN COMACHO [1945-2015]

RIP Mr Comacho. A very good Batsman. He was hit in England by Andy Roberts and his eye glasses were shattered.

 

Rest in Peace my Friend.

 

Steve always had problems with the Bouncer 

Steve Comacho slips while Ducking under a Bouncer

 

Thanks for the memories Steve.

Its hard to see so many of our cricketers leave us, with so many memories, from  our baihood days. 

We were a family, even though we did not meet personally.

RIP Steve Comacho  

RIP.

Indeed

Steve Camacho came from a solid cricketing background (his grandfather, GC Learmond, played first-class cricket for Barbados and Trinidad) and was a decent Test opener and a pioneer in West Indies cricket administration. He was the first full-time employee of the West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) and was at various stages secretary, chief executive and a Test selector. 

As a schoolboy, Stephen Camacho represented St Stanislaus College, in Georgetown, for five years and in his last year at school was Captain of cricket. He played for the Guyana Colts against Australia in Georgetown in 1965 and hit a brilliant 157. 

A classic and bespectacled batsman, Camacho's single weakness - his uncontrolled hooking of bodyline bouncers - was probably responsible for his limited success at the highest levels. Also prone to injuries, he hurt himself in the pre-match warm-up for Guyana against Barbados at Bourda in 1967, which allowed Roy Fredericks to establish himself as the Guyana, and later West Indies, preferred opener for years to come. 

in 1965, Camacho made his first class debut for Guyana against Australia, at Bourda. He represented Guyana in the entire 1966 Shell Shield tournament, scoring a century against Trinidad & Tobago in Port-of-Spain on his regional debut. The aforementioned injury kept him out of all but one Shell Shield match in 1967, in which he scored 66 in difficult conditions in Grenada to help Guyana defeat the Windwards. 

In early 1968, before the start of Shell Shield season, he represented the President's XI against the MCC in Barbados. Opening with Geoffrey Greenidge, he made 85 and earned a place as an opening batsman in the West Indies team. He played in all five Test matches against the MCC in the West Indies in 1968, scoring 328 runs for an average of 32.80, with a highest score of 87 in Trinidad. 

Camacho toured Australia with the West Indies in 1968 / 1969 and opened in the first two Tests after a century and half century against New South Wales and Victoria respectively. Mediocre performances, however, caused him to be lose his place to Joey Carew. It did not help his cause either when Roy Fredericks made a noteworthy Test debut in the second Test. 

Camacho's poor form continued into the 1969 New Zealand series that followed immediately after the Australian tour, and he was not selected for any of the New Zealand Tests. He returned to Test cricket, however, with good performances in the second and third Tests on the West Indies tour of England in the summer of 1969. He was also part of the West Indies team that was dismissed by Ireland for 25. 

West Indies did not play any Test matches in 1970, amidst the international turmoil surrounding sporting contact with South Africa. India toured the West Indies in early 1971 and Camacho opened in the first two Tests. After poor performances he lost his Test place, to Joey Carew, again. 

After good Shell Shield seasons in 1972 and 1973 Camacho returned to the West Indies team for the tour of England in the summer of 1973. This time though, his tour was cut short on 26 June in the tour match against Hampshire, after being struck by a short ball from West Indian Andy Roberts, who was trying out for the county. 

His Test career had ended after a total of 11 Tests, his sober style perfectly complementing the expansive batsmanship of his opening partners Roy Fredericks and Seymour Nurse. 

His injury in 1973 kept him out of regional cricket until the 1975 Shell Shield tournament. With most of the top Guyana batsmen away on West Indies duty, Camacho continued playing for Guyana until 1979, as a new crop of outstanding Guyana batsmen, including Bacchus and Baichan, started to mature. 

Stephen Camacho also played 6 List A (50 overs per side) matches, making his List A debut for West Indies against Warwickshire in England in 1969, and scoring his only List A half century (51) in this match. 

After retirement in 1979, Camacho embarked on a long and distinguished career serving West Indies cricket, first as a selector then secretary and later as chief executive of the WICB. In 2000 Camacho retired as WICB chief executive. In August 2003, Camacho was nominated by the Guyana Cricket Board for the post of WICB president, which became vacant when Wes Hall retired (because of ill health) after holding the post for two years. 

Stephen Camacho was the author of a 112-page hardback book (ISBN 13: 9789769507586; ISBN 10: 976950758X) named "Cricket at Bourda: Celebrating the Georgetown Cricket Club", which was published on 01 January 2007 by Sheik Hassan Printery. 

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He was a good person

i see him lots of times in action he had class