FORMER Demerara Cricket Club (DCC) and Guyana batsman Colin Wiltshire died in a Trinidad and Tobago hospital on Friday night. He was 74.

Wiltshire made his debut for Guyana in the 1958/59 Inter-colonial cricket tournament (as it was known then) against Barbados at the Kensington Oval under the captaincy of the late Clyde Walcott and went on to play eight matches for his country until the 1963/64 season.

Wiltshire’s highest first-class score was made against the Combined Islands at the GGC ground, Bourda, in 1961 where he hit 197 in the team’s total of 438 all out. At the domestic level Wiltshire was a prolific scorer for DCC in the Case Cup competition and also for Demerara at the Inter-county level .

Wiltshire was the father of one of Guyana’s leading squash players Garfield Wiltshire. Chronicle Sport extends heartfelt condolences to the Wiltshire family.