| Personal information | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Batting style | Right-hand bat | |||
| Bowling style | Right-arm fast-medium | |||
| International information | ||||
| National side | West Indian | |||
| Career statistics | ||||
| Competition | Tests | First-class | ||
| Matches | 2 | 27 | ||
| Runs scored | 1 | 109 | ||
| Batting average | 1.00 | 13.62 | ||
| 100s/50s | 0/0 | 0/0 | ||
| Top score | 1* | 15* | ||
| Balls bowled | 540 | 4375 | ||
| Wickets | 8 | 78 | ||
| Bowling average | 22.25 | 26.71 | ||
| 5 wickets in innings | 1 | 4 | ||
| 10 wickets in match | 0 | 0 | ||
| Best bowling | 5/49 | 5/36 | ||
| Catches/stumpings | 1/- | 6/- | ||
| Source: CricketArchive, | ||||
Esmond Seymour Maurice Kentish (21 November 1916 – 10 June 2011) was a West Indian cricketer who played in two Tests from 1948 to 1954. He was born in Cornwall Mountain, Westmoreland, Jamaica. At the time of his death he was the oldest living West Indian Test cricketer, and the fourth oldest Test cricketer from any country.[1]
Kentish made his Test debut in the fourth Test of the West Indies vs England series in the 1947/48 season. He had match bowling figures of 3–106 as the West Indies won by ten wickets.[2] He didn't play Test cricket again for the West Indies until the first Test of the West Indies vs England series in the 1953/54 season. He went wicketless in England's first innings, but took 5–49 in their second as the West Indies won by 140 runs.[3]
Kentish died 10 June 2011 aged 94.[4]