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Port-Of-Spain Sir Everton Weekes and Curtly Ambrose, for whom the Queen's Park Oval was the happiest of hunting grounds in different generations, are to be featured guests when the largest, best appointed and most attractively situated ground in the Caribbean celebrates its 50th Test match, starting tomorrow. Queen's Park is the eighth venue to have reached 50 Tests. Four grounds in England (Lord's, Old Trafford, the Oval and Headingley) and two in Australia (the MCG and the SCG) are the others.

Weekes, 76, and Ambrose, 37, will fly in to Port-of-Spain to be guests of the Queen's Park Cricket Club, which owns and maintains the Oval, and the Trinidad and Tobago Cricket Board.

They will unveil new boards listing all 80 previous century-makers and 68 bowlers with five or more wickets in an innings in Tests on the ground in a special ceremony before the start of the Test.

Trinidad and Tobago President A.N.R. Robinson and Prime Minister Basdeo Panday will meet the teams who will sit for an official photograph. Commemorative gold-plated plaques have been struck for presentation to both captains and the players will receive medallions.

Weekes and Ambrose were chosen by Queen's Park's organising committee because of their consistently outstanding performances in Tests at the Oval. Weekes piled up 1 074 runs at an average of 97.63 in his seven Tests there between 1948 and 1958. Ambrose despatched 66 batsmen in his 12 Queen's Park Tests.

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