John Trim

Who was John Trim?

John Trim was a West Indian cricketer who played in four Tests from 1948 to 1952. A right-arm fast medium bowler and right-handed batsman from British Guiana, Trim's brief international career yielded 18 wickets at one of the lowest bowling averages of any completed career - 16.16 runs-per-wicket. His overall first class career was also short: thirty-four matches for British Guiana in which he took 96 wickets and made a solitary half-century with the bat.

His Test debut came during the 1947-48 tour of the West Indies by Gubby Allen's England team. Trim took two wickets for an economical six runs in his first outing, with a further wicket in England's second innings. It was Trim's only match of the series, but he would tour India in January 1949, taking 4/48 and 3/28 in Chennai and 3/69 in Mumbai. He was then selected for the West Indian tour of Australia 1951-52 and took his career-best figures: a maiden five wicket haul of 5/35 at the Melbourne Cricket Ground.

Trim continued to play cricket in the Caribbean until 1953. He died in New Amsterdam, East Bank Berbice.