Led by Geddes Granger, the National Joint Action Committee joined up with trade unionists led by George Weekes of the Oilfields Workers ' Trade Union and Basdeo Panday, then a young trade union lawyer and activist.

He was omitted from team for both the Second and Third Test but then recalled for the Fourth Test at Queen's Park Oval which was drawn ; Trueman again struggled and had a return of 1 – 131 in the first innings as West Indies amassed 681 – 8 declared, all of the famous " Three Ws " scoring centuries: Everton Weekes 206, Frank Worrell 167 and Clyde Walcott 124.

This was coupled with a growing militancy by the Trade Union movement, led by George Weekes of the Oilfields Workers ' Trade Union, Clive Nunez of the Transport and Industrial Workers Union and Basdeo Panday, then a young trade union lawyer and activist.

James, George Weekes ( of the Oilfields Workers Trade Union ) and included the then unknown Basdeo Panday among its slate of candidates.

Walcott was a member of the " three W's ", the other two being Everton Weekes and Frank Worrell: all were very successful batsmen from Barbados, born within a short distance of each other in Bridgetown, Barbados in a period of 18 months from August 1924 to January 1926 ; all made their Test cricket debut against England in 1948.

A bust at the Asiatic Society was to be made by Francis Chantrey but was finished by Henry Weekes.

Weekes was one of the " Three Ws ", along with Clyde Walcott and Frank Worrell, noted as outstanding batsmen from Barbados who all made their Test debut in 1948 against England.

Weekes made his Test debut for the West Indies against England at Kensington Oval on 21 January 1948, aged 22 years and 329 days.

Batting at number three, Weekes made 35 and 25 as the match ended in a draw.

Reporting on the final day of the 1957 Lords Test where Weekes had made a rearguard 90 as the West Indies slumped to an innings defeat, The Timess cricket correspondent wrote " It had been a day to quicken one's feeling for cricket, glowing with freshness and impulse and friendliness, and it had belong to Weekes.

Following the end of his cricketing career, Weekes received a range of distinctions, including being made an Officer of the Order of the British Empire ( OBE ), the Barbados Gold Crown of Merit ( GCM ) and in 1995 Weekes was made a Knight of the Order of St Michael and St George ( KCMG ) for his services to cricket.

Johnston started the series steadily with match figures of 3 / 90 in the First Test, removing vice-captain Jeff Stollmeyer and leading batsmen Frank Worrell and Everton Weekes as Australia scraped home by three wickets.

He took only one wicket but brilliantly ran out Everton Weekes who had scored hundreds in his five previous innings, and had reached 90 here.

In the Fourth Test in Melbourne, Johnston took match figures of 5 / 110, removing Weekes in both innings, before coming to the crease in the second innings to partner Doug Ring.

Weekes's performance in his next two Tests, in the words of Wisden, " did little to indicate the remarkable feats which lay ahead " and was initially dropped from the Fourth and final Test of the series against England before an injury to George Headley allowed Weekes to return to the side.

Swanton believed that Constantine was the first West Indian cricketer to make an impression on the British public: " he ... personified West Indian cricket from the first faltering entry in the Test arena in 1928 until the post-war emergence of the trinity of Worrell, Weekes and Walcott.

Their batting was led the celebrated batting trio, the three W's: Frank Worrell, Everton Weekes and Clyde Walcott .< Ref name =" p227 "/> Lindwall entered the First Test in Brisbane in good form, having taken nine wickets in a Sheffield Shield match against Queensland in the lead-up.

The series ended with a controversial battle between Lindwall and Weekes on the final day of the Fifth Test in Sydney.

The 1947 / 48 season included a tour by MCC and Weekes impressed West Indian selectors with an unbeaten 118 against the tourists prior to the first Test in Bridgetown.

After being dropped on 0, Weekes scored 141, his maiden Test century and was subsequently chosen for the West Indies tour of India, Pakistan and Ceylon.

In his next Test, the First against India, at Delhi, in November 1948 ( the first by West Indies in India ), Weekes scored 128, followed by 194 in the Second Test in Bombay and 162 and 101 in the Third Test in Calcutta.

By the end of the series, which also included a century against Ceylon, at that time a non-Test cricketing nation, and a half century against Pakistan in a match not classed as a Test match, Weekes had a Test batting average of 82. 46 and had passed 1, 000 Test runs in his twelfth innings, one fewer than Donald Bradman.

The next season saw no Test cricket played by West Indies but Weekes scored 236 * against British Guiana at Bridgetown, averaged 219. 50 for the season and raised his career first-class average to 72. 64.

In 1950 West Indies toured England and Weekes continued his excellent form, scoring 338 runs at 56. 33 and playing a significant part in the West Indies 3-1 victory in the Test series, as well as 2310 first-class runs at 79. 65 ( including five double centuries, a record for a West Indian tour of England ).

By the end of the series, Weekes had scored 1, 410 Test runs at 74. 21 and had enhanced his reputation as one of the finest slip fielders in world cricket, taking 11 catches in the series.

During the Port of Spain Test against India in February 1953, Weekes surpassed George Headley's record of 2190 as West Indies highest Test run scorer.

Although Weekes was not on Queen Victoria's original list of sculptors, being selected to work on the project only after John Gibson declined to participate, his group occupies the preferable south side of the finished monument.

Weekes retired from Test cricket in 1958 due to a persistent thigh injury but continued in first-class cricket until 1964, his final first-class match being against Trinidad and Tobago in Port-of-Spain, scoring 19 and 13.

Weekes cut Vinoo Mankad to gully, started to run and was sent back.

Others, such as Major Strangways ( 1658 ) and John Weekes ( 1731 ), refused to plead, even under 400 pounds ( 180 kg ), and were killed when bystanders, out of mercy, sat on them.

Others, such as Major Strangways ( 1658 ) and John Weekes ( 1731 ), refused to plead, even under 400 pounds ( 180 kg ), and were killed when bystanders, out of mercy, sat on them.

Wes Hall and Frank Mason were competing for a single place in the touring party, and Sobers and Everton Weekes decided they " would take on Mason and knock him out of the firing line to try and get our fellow Bajan ( countryman ) Wes in the team.

Bure held out well into the 1998 – 99 season until he was traded on January 17, 1999, to the Florida Panthers, with Bret Hedican, Brad Ference, and Vancouver's third-round choice in the 2000 NHL Entry Draft ( Robert Fried ) for Ed Jovanovski, Dave Gagner, Mike Brown, Kevin Weekes, and Florida's first-round choice in the 2000 draft ( Nathan Smith ).

With this score, Pietersen moved ahead of Everton Weekes and Viv Richards to be the batsman with the second-highest run-total out of his first 25 Tests ( behind Don Bradman ).

In the 1960s and 1970s, under the leadership of George Weekes, the union grew into a potent political force, playing a role in the Black Power movement in 1970 and playing a role in the foundation of the United Labour Front. The Oilfields Workers ' Trade Union ( OWTU ), widely recognized as the strongest and most militant trade union in Trinidad and Tobago and the Anglophone Caribbean, was born out of the General Strike which started on June 19, 1937 in the oilfields of south Trinidad.

Named as a member of the West Indian team to tour Australia in 1951 / 52, Weekes was troubled by a range of injuries throughout the tour, including a ongoing thigh injury and a badly bruised right thumb when a door slammed shut on it while he was helping an injured Walcott out of his room, subsequently leaving his performances below expectations.

In one 1967 match, aged 42, Weekes, out of practice and in borrowed gear, dominated a bowling attack half his age.

Chowdhury sent the throw to wicket keeper Probir Sen who ran Weekes out.

* Henry Weekes, RA, Victorian era sculptor – worked at No. 2, lived at No. 96, Eccleston Street

CSM Weekes was standing over them like a guardian, screaming at some of his men to cover the further end of the path and a small crest.

He scored his first career NHL goal on October 6, 2005, against New York Rangers goalie Kevin Weekes during an away game at Madison Square Garden.

In the 1970s Dr. Weekes was a regular guest on the British national TV programme Pebble Mill at One, which introduced people to her techniques.

" He described Claire Weekes as looking at him in shock, for which she responded " Save your sympathy for someone else.

As a boy Weekes assisted the groundsmen at Kensington Oval and often acted as a substitute fielder in exchange for free entry to the cricket, giving himself the opportunity to watch leading international cricketers at close range.

Weekes scored 88 and 117 retired and was selected for the tour, making his first-class debut on 24 February 1945, aged 19 years, 364 days, for Barbados against Trinidad and Tobago at Queen's Park Oval, Port of Spain.

In his first two first-class seasons Weekes was only a moderate success with the bat, averaging 16. 62 by the end of the 1945 / 46 season but began to find form in 1946 / 47, when, batting at number four, his maiden first-class century, 126 against British Guiana at Bourda, Georgetown, and averaged 67. 57 for the season.

The Worrell, Weekes and Walcott Stand at Kensington Oval is named in honour of the Three Ws.

After their retirement from cricket, the three remained close and, following the death of Worrell in 1967, Weekes acted as one of the pallbearers at his funeral.

Leading cricket commentator Alan McGilvray later wrote " I remain convinced to this day the bumpers hurled at Weekes had a definite influence on charging up West Indian competitiveness in future series.