Charlie Stayers

Stayers was born in Georgetown in British Guiana, and attended St Stanislaus College there.^[1]

Stayers was a tall, loose-limbed right-arm fast bowler and useful right-handed batsman.^[2] He played domestic cricket for British Guiana from 1958 to 1961.^[3] On his first-class debut against the touring Pakistani team in 1957–58 he took five wickets.^[4] He was the most successful bowler in the inter-island tournament in 1961–62, when he took 22 wickets at an average of 18.22, and British Guiana won the tournament.^[5] In the victory over Barbados in the final he took 6 for 70 and 3 for 64 and made 83 in the first innings.^[6] He played his four Test matches later that season.

Stayers also played for Bombay in the 1962–63 Ranji Trophy season.^[1] He was one of four West Indian fast bowlers who played a season of domestic cricket in India in 1962–63 in order to give Indian batsmen more experience of playing fast bowling.^[7] He played in the West Zone team that won the Duleep Trophy,^[8] and took nine wickets in the final of the Ranji Trophy to help Bombay retain the title.^[9]

The Ranji Trophy final, in which he took his best figures, was Stayers' last first-class match. He spent the 1963 English season as the professional for Enfield in the Lancashire League, and stayed in England to study at university. He pursued a career in health management that took him to Nigeria, Uganda, the United States, and back to England, where he died in 2005, aged 67.^[2]

• Charlie Stayers at ESPNcricinfo