| Personal information | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Joseph A Small | |||
| Born | 3 November 1892 Princes Town, Trinidad |
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| Died | 26 April 1958 (aged 65) Forest Reserve, Trinidad |
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| Batting style | Left-handed | |||
| Bowling style | Right-arm medium-fast | |||
| International information | ||||
| National side | West Indies | |||
| Test debut | 23 June 1928 v England | |||
| Last Test | 1 February 1930 v England | |||
| Domestic team information | ||||
| Years | Team | |||
| 1909–1932 | Trinidad | |||
| Career statistics | ||||
| Competition | Tests | First-class | ||
| Matches | 3 | 77 | ||
| Runs scored | 79 | 3,063 | ||
| Batting average | 13.16 | 26.17 | ||
| 100s/50s | 0/1 | 4/16 | ||
| Top score | 52 | 133 | ||
| Balls bowled | 366 | 10,847 | ||
| Wickets | 3 | 165 | ||
| Bowling average | 61.33 | 27.81 | ||
| 5 wickets in innings | 0 | 7 | ||
| 10 wickets in match | 0 | 0 | ||
| Best bowling | 2/67 | 7/49 | ||
| Catches/stumpings | 3/– | 71/– | ||
| Source: CricketArchive, 10 January 2010 | ||||
Joseph A. Small (November 3, 1892-April 26, 1958) was a West Indian cricketer who played in West Indies' first Test in their inaugural Test tour of England.
Small was born in Princes Town, Trinidad. He was one of the many West Indian cricketers of his time whose Test career started at an advanced age; he was 35 in his first Test. [1] He also scored the first fifty in a Test by a West Indian in the Test at Lord's in 1928. [2]
"International cricketers," wrote C. L. R. James in recollection of Small's enthusiasm when, as a boy, the writer bowled to him the Queen's Park Savannah, "are not as ordinary men. There might be only two boys fielding, but if you bowled Joe a half-volley outside the off stump, he hit with all his force, though he would have to wait until the ball came back from 150 yards."
Small died in Forest Reserve, Trinidad, at the age of 65.