GEORGETOWN, Guyana, CMC – Milton Robert Pydanna, a former West Indies and Guyana wicketkeeper/batsman, handed away on Tuesday at 75. Pydanna was a superb wicketkeeper/batsman who performed 85 first-class matches between 1970 and 1988.
He additionally performed 27 Checklist ‘A’ matches, together with three ODI’s for the West Indies. Of his three ODI’s, two have been performed in opposition to Pakistan in 1980 and one in opposition to India in 1983.
Pydanna discovered it difficult to interrupt into the nice West Indies Check workforce of the Seventies and Nineteen Eighties due to the presence of excellent first-choice wicketkeepers Deryck Murray, Michael Finlay, and Jeffrey Dujon.
In his prolonged cricket profession, he was a mainstay within the Police first-division workforce, the Berbice inter-county workforce, and the Guyana nationwide workforce.
After migrating to the USA, Pydanna was appointed one of many two assistant coaches of the USA’s nationwide aspect in 2014.