D.O.B: July 2, 1934 (Port Mourant, Berbice, British Guiana)
Teams: Berbice, British Guiana, West Indies, Lincolnshire
Ivan Madray was a wily right-arm wrist-spinner and handy lower order batsman who played two Test matches for the West Indies during Pakistan’s historic, inaugural tour to the Caribbean in 1958. He was a product of the coaching programme on the sugar estates undertaken by the famous Barbadian, the late Sir Clyde Walcott, during the mid-1950s.
So impressed was Madray with the coach’s work in shaping his career and those of high profile players Rohan Kanhai, Joe Solomon and Basil Butcher, he declared with conviction that “I could have walked to the end of the earth for Clyde Walcott”.
Consistent performances at the club and inter-county levels influenced the selectors to pick him to contest his first first-class game for British Guiana against the touring Australians at Bourda in 1955.
In a game the locals lost by an innings and 134 runs with more than a day to spare, Madray captured 3-122 off 23 overs in an Australian score of 476 for seven declared as the powerful Peter Burge blasted his way to a commanding 177.
A year later he played for the first and only time in the regional quadrangular tournament when he was pitted against Jamaica and in the final against Barbados.
In the Jamaica encounter at Bourda on a batsman’s haven, the Guyanese amassed a massive 601 for five declared with Bruce Pairaudeau, Basil Butcher, Joe Solomon and Kanhai hitting hundreds.
The visitors responded with 469 (Alfie Binns 151, Collie Smith 109) as Madray bagged four for 168 in a marathon 84 overs in the only innings he bowled.
In the final at the same venue, Guyana were bowled out for an imposing 581 (Kanhai 195, Solomon 108) while the Barbadians could have mustered a mere 211 first time at the crease as the leg-spinner grabbed his best first-class figures of four for 61.
Asked to follow-on the Bajans reached a shaky 67-4 when the match ended, with Madray adding yet another scalp to his collection to enhance his Test claims.
His chance came in the second Test against Pakistan at the Queen’s Park Oval in 1958 when another Guyanese spinner, Lance Gibbs debuted also. In a match the home side won by a comprehensive margin of 120 runs, he went wicketless and scored a solitary run.
He was omitted for the third game in Jamaica but a creditable performance in the British Guiana-Pakistan clash at Bourda in which he had first innings figures of three for 60 swayed the authorities to include him for the Georgetown Test.
Again the West Indies won handsomely – this time by eight wickets, and again Madray’s contribution was miniscule – a couple of runs and match figures of 0-54 off 16 overs.
He was never picked again and his first-class career came to an abrupt end after only six matches at age 24.
However, he moved to England and represented Lincolnshire in 32 matches in the Minor County Championships between 1963 and 1967.
Later he emigrated to the USA and died while vacationing in Guyana in April, 2009 at the age of  74.  
RECORD:
TESTS: 2 WKTS: 0 RUNS: 108  
(Digicel: Guyana’s Bigger, Better Network)