LONDON: Tony Cozier, widely acknowledged as being the voice of West Indies cricket, has died aged 75.

Born in July 1940 in Barbados, Cozier covered almost every cricket series involving the West Indies series since 1962.

He had been seriously ill in hospital on the island and his son Craig, a television producer in the Indian Premier League, had been flying home to be at his father’s bedside.

In the 1960s, he was the lone Caribbean voice in the commentary box on tours of Australia, England, India and New Zealand.

A former senior editor of the Nation newspaper on Barbados, he wrote for The Independent in London and is considered one of the most respected cricket writers, broadcasters and historians to have come out of the Caribbean.—The Guardian

Published in Dawn, May 12th, 2016