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{{short description|Jamaican cricketer}}
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{{Infobox cricketer
| name = Roy Gilchrist
| image =
| country = West Indies
| fullname = Roy Gilchrist
| birth_date = {{Birth date|1934|6|28|df=yes}}
| birth_place = [[Saint Thomas Parish, Jamaica|St Thomas]], Jamaica
| death_date = {{Death date and age|2001|7|18|1934|6|28|df=yes}}
| death_place = [[Portmore, Jamaica|Portmore]], [[Saint Catherine Parish|St Catherine]], Jamaica
| batting = Right-handed
| bowling = Right arm [[Fast bowling|fast]]
| role = [[Bowler (cricket)|Bowler]]
| international = true
| testdebutdate = 30 May
| testdebutyear = 1957
| testdebutagainst = England
| testcap = 93
| lasttestdate = 11 February
| lasttestyear = 1959
| lasttestagainst = India
| club1 = [[Jamaica national cricket team|Jamaica]]
| year1 = 1956–1962
| club2 = [[Hyderabad cricket team|Hyderabad]]
| year2 = 1962–1963
| columns = 2
| column1 = [[Test cricket|Tests]]
| matches1 = 13
| runs1 = 60
| bat avg1 = 5.45
| 100s/50s1 = 0/0
| top score1 = 12
| deliveries1 = 3,227
| wickets1 = 57
| bowl avg1 = 26.68
| fivefor1 = 1
| tenfor1 = 0
| best bowling1 = 6/55
| catches/stumpings1 = 4/–
| column2 = [[First-class cricket|First-class]]
| matches2 = 42
| runs2 = 258
| bat avg2 = 7.81
| 100s/50s2 = 0/0
| top score2 = 43 [[not out]]
| deliveries2 = 8,391
| wickets2 = 167
| bowl avg2 = 26.00
| fivefor2 = 7
| tenfor2 = 1
| best bowling2 = 6/16
| catches/stumpings2 = 10/–
| source = http://content-aus.cricinfo.com/ci/content/player/51887.html Cricinfo
| date = 3 March
| year = 2009
}}
'''Roy Gilchrist''' (28 June 1934 – 18 July 2001) was a [[West Indies|West Indian]] cricketer who played 13 [[Test cricket|Tests]] for the [[West Indies cricket team|West Indies]] in the 1950s. He was born in [[Saint Thomas Parish, Jamaica|Saint Thomas]], [[Jamaica]] and died of [[Parkinson's disease]] in [[Saint Catherine Parish, Jamaica|St Catherine]], Jamaica at the age of 67.

Gilchrist's Test career might have been longer had he not been sent home halfway through West Indies' 1958–59 tour of the Indian subcontinent after disagreements with captain [[Gerry Alexander]]. One cause of this was Gilchrist's "penchant for bowling [[beamer (cricket)|beamer]]s from 18 yards" as Cricinfo has put it, as well as off-field arguments.<ref name="Law">{{cite web | url=http://content-uk.cricinfo.com/columns/content/story/266972.html | title=I fought the law | accessdate=9 November 2006 | author=Miller, Andrew |author2=Williamson, Martin | date=9 November 2006 | publisher=[[Cricinfo]]}}</ref> This involved deliberately overstepping the bowling mark by four yards to come closer to the batsman and intimidate him. In the Fourth Test at [[Nagpur]], after Indian batsman [[A. G. Kripal Singh]] had struck three consecutive boundaries and taunted him, Gilchrist deliberately overstepped the bowling mark by six metres and delivered a [[bouncer (cricket)|bouncer]] which hit the Sikh batsman on the head and dislodged his turban.

In the following match, against [[North Zone cricket team|North Zone]], he unleashed a barrage of beamers against [[Swaranjit Singh]], whom Alexander had known at [[Cambridge University|Cambridge]]. He ignored his captain's instruction to cease this form of attack. During the lunch interval Alexander substituted him, and he was subsequently sent home, while the other players proceeded to Pakistan for the remainder of the tour. Alexander told him: “You will leave by the next flight. Good afternoon.” This marked the end of his Test career. There were suggestions that he had pulled a knife on Alexander.<ref>[https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/sport-obituaries/8461627/Gerry-Alexander.html ''Daily Telegraph'' obituary of Alexander] Retrieved 20 April 2011</ref>

He later attracted attention while playing in the [[Lancashire League (cricket)|Lancashire League]] by removing a [[stump (cricket)|stump]] from the playing arena and striking an opposition batsman in the head.

Gilchrist was said to be one of only four bowlers ever to have actually hit the sightscreen after first bounce on the pitch, on the full.<ref># ^ https://books.google.com/books?id=QakNM78bmm4C&pg=PA202&lpg=PA202&dq=sightscreen+%22roy+gilchrist%22&source=bl&ots=zvuj8pFjhB&sig=MqEFde5wTC388wF-T-js4elpRVY&hl=en&ei=7FanSeXGEqGbtweorIDnDw&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=2&ct=result</ref> (There is some doubt about this, as the scorebook for the match in question, however, showed only three extras).

After the end of his Test career he spent many years playing in the English Lancashire League. He was successful there, reaching 100 wickets each season until 1979, but there were continued stories of his violent temper. In 1967, Gilchrist was sentenced to three months' [[probation]] after attacking his wife Novlyn during an argument. The judge in the case said: "I hate to think English sport has sunk so far that brutes will be tolerated because they are good at games."<ref name="Law" />

==Notes==
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==References==
* [http://content-uk.cricinfo.com/ci/content/player/51887.html Cricinfo page on Roy Gilchrist]
* [https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/1/1051/1051.html Roy Gilchrist at Cricket Archive]

==External links==
* [http://www.espncricinfo.com/ci/content/story/101784.html Obituary of Roy Gilchrist by Dave Liberman]

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[[Category:1934 births]]
[[Category:2001 deaths]]
[[Category:West Indies Test cricketers]]
[[Category:Jamaican cricketers]]
[[Category:Hyderabad cricketers]]
[[Category:South Zone cricketers]]
[[Category:Jamaica cricketers]]
[[Category:People from Saint Thomas Parish, Jamaica]]

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