Jeff Dujon was one of those players selectors pray for - a top class wicket-keeper who is also a specialist batsman. Indeed, he first played for West Indies simply as a batsman, in Australia in 1981-82 when he scored 41 and 43 at Melbourne and 44 and 48 at Sydney, before taking over the gloves in Adelaide. For the next decade he was regularly to be seen making spectacular dives after the odd wayward ball from the fast bowlers. We have little idea how he would have kept wicket against spin, but he was such a determined character it is likely he would have done well. He followed his father into the Jamaica side in 1974 and was so determined to succeed he came to the U.K. deliberately to play and learn on bad wickets. He spent a year in the lower divisions of the South Wales league with B.S.C. Velindre, where one of his team-mates was Ken Lang, nephew of the inter-war Welsh rugby forward Jim Lang. "He would not shirk the worst wickets, although he did ask his captain's permission to play back instead of forward, " he said. Dujon's runs for West Indies were often made after the dashing top-order batsmen had for once charged into oblivion, whereupon he and Gus Logie would set about rebuilding the innings. He scored 110 against India in the Antigua Test of 1982-83, 130 against Australia at Port of Spain in 1983-84, 101 against England at Old Trafford in 1984, 139 at Perth in 1984-85, and 106 not out against Pakistan in 1987-88. In the 1983 World Cup he made 25 in the semi-final and in the 1987 competition he made 46 against England. (Bob Harragan)