BRIDGETOWN, Bar­ba­dos – For­mer Bar­ba­dos all-rounder Ken­roy Williams passed away at his home on Mon­day af­ter a long bat­tle with breast can­cer.

The 40-year-old mid­dle-or­der bats­man and off-spin­ner played First Class and List A crick­et for Bar­ba­dos and al­so rep­re­sent­ed Ja­maica in the WICB Pro­fes­sion­al 4-Day com­pe­ti­tion in the 2018-2019 sea­son.

Williams al­so had one ap­pear­ance with the West In­dies ‘B’ team.

Both the Bar­ba­dos Crick­et As­so­ci­a­tion (BCA) and the West In­dies Play­ers’ As­so­ci­a­tion (WIPA) paid trib­ute to Williams.

“What an in­nings. What a fight.

“On be­half of the Board of Di­rec­tors, man­age­ment and staff, we of­fer our sin­cere con­do­lences to the loved ones of Ken­roy Williams,” the BCA said on its In­sta­gram page.

“He will al­ways be re­mem­bered for his courage and fight­ing spir­it on and off the field. May he Rest in Peace.”

Mean­while, on its Face­book page a state­ment from WIPA read, “We are deeply sad­dened by the pass­ing of Ken­roy Williams. Ken­roy was an ex­em­plary sports­man on and off the field, he fought a good fight.

“May his soul rest in peace and light per­pet­u­al shine up­on him. To Ken­roy’s fam­i­ly, friends, and the en­tire crick­et­ing fra­ter­ni­ty, please ac­cept our deep­est con­do­lences.”

In his re­gion­al ca­reer which spanned 15 years from 2004 to 2019, Williams played 29 First Class match­es, scor­ing 915 runs, in­clu­sive of four half cen­turies, at an av­er­age of 20.33, with his high­est score be­ing 82.

He al­so took 47 wick­ets at an av­er­age of 29.12, with one five-wick­et haul.

Williams al­so played 19 List A match­es where he scored 240 runs at an av­er­age of 17.14, while al­so tak­ing sev­en wick­ets.

CMC