GEORGE­TOWN, Guyana – Mil­ton Robert Py­dan­na, a for­mer West In­dies and Guyana wick­et­keep­er/bats­man passed away on Tues­day at the age of 75.

Py­dan­na was an ex­cel­lent wick­et­keep­er/bats­man who played 85 first-class match­es be­tween 1970 and 1988.

He al­so played 27 List ‘A’ match­es in­clud­ing three ODI’s for the West In­dies.

Of his three ODI’s, two were played against Pak­istan in 1980 and one against In­dia in 1983.

Py­dan­na found it dif­fi­cult to break in­to the great West In­dies Test team of the 1970’s and 1980’s be­cause of the pres­ence of out­stand­ing first-choice wick­et­keep­ers Deryck Mur­ray, Michael Fin­lay and Jef­frey Du­jon.

In his lengthy crick­et ca­reer, he was a main­stay in the Po­lice first-di­vi­sion team, the Berbice in­ter-coun­ty team and the Guyana na­tion­al team.

Af­ter mi­grat­ing to the USA, Py­dan­na was ap­point­ed one of the two as­sis­tant coach­es of USA’s na­tion­al side in 2014.

CMC