# Ken Rickards

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For the English footballer, see [Ken Rickards (footballer)](/source/Ken_Rickards_(footballer)).

**Kenneth Roy Rickards** (22 August 1923 – 21 August 1995) was a [West Indian](/source/West_Indies_cricket_team) international [cricketer](/source/Cricket) who played in two [Test matches](/source/Test_cricket) from [1948](/source/English_cricket_team_in_West_Indies_in_1947-48) to [1952](/source/West_Indian_cricket_team_in_Australia_in_1951-52). He was born in Rollington Town in Jamaica and made his first class debut in 1946.[1]

He played as a professional in the Lancashire League for Haslingden in 1951 in one game, and was brought back to Jamaica by public subscription for the 1953/4 tour by the MCC. However he failed in the final tour match and did not make the Test side.[2]

## References

1. ["The Home of CricketArchive"](https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/0/826/First-Class_Matches.html). *cricketarchive.com*. Retrieved 2023-07-14.

1. Woodhouse, David (2021). *Who Only Cricket Know: Hutton's Men in the West Indies 1953/54*. London: Fairfield. pp. P52. ISBN 978-1-909811-59-1.

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