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Heart attack West Indies cricketer dead at 67
Posted: Friday December 03, 1999 04:22 PM
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados (AP) -- Conrad Hunte, one of the finest opening batsmen in West Indies cricket history and a prominent administrator of the sport, died after suffering a heart attack Friday, his sister said. He was 67. Hunte, president of the Barbados Cricket Association, died while on a visit to Sydney, Australia, his sister, Juanita Hinkson, said. His passing came a month after another outstanding West Indies cricketer, fast bowler Malcolm Marshall, died of colon cancer at the age of 41. "This is very sad news, especially coming so soon after Malcolm Marshall's death," said Stephen Camacho, chief executive of the West Indies Cricket Board. "Both had given so much to West Indies cricket, and had so much more to give." Hinkson said her brother was in Sydney to deliver a speech to a Christian organization. A stylish right-hander, Hunte scored the first of his eight test centuries in his first innings in test cricket, 142 against Pakistan in Bridgetown in 1958. In the third test of the same series, Hunte hit his highest score, 260, and shared a second-wicket partnership of 446 with Gary Sobers, whose unbeaten 365 was then the test record score. Hunte was West Indies vice-captain to Frank Worrell from 1960 to 1963 and then to Sobers from 1965 until he retired three years later. He lived in the United States in the 1980s and served as Barbados' consul-general in Atlanta. Hunte returned to his native Barbados last year after spending seven years with the United Cricket Board of South Africa, where he worked on developing the game in black townships. He worked for Barbados' ministry of education and youth affairs and received the nation's highest honor, the Order of St. Andrew, in 1997. He and his U.S.-born wife, Patricia, a former television newscaster in Atlanta, had three daughters.
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