Charles Henry: the greatest ever Montserrat sportsperson

Charles Henry "Jim" Allen MBE is the cricketer who was a piece of the World Arrangement Cricket and is considered the greatest ever Montserrat sportsperson

He was born in Harris Town, Montserrat, to Attractive and Alberta Allen,Jim Allen featured in Montserrat cricket since early on, making his introduction for the Montserrat cricket crew in the 1969 Leeward Islands Competition, and scored his first century for Montserrat against St Kitts cricket crew at Sturge Park, Montserrat in 1971.

Allen made his top of the line debut on 15 January 1972 for Leeward Islands against Windward Islands at Roseau, scoring one and 82. An assaulting right-hand batsman with an irregular, open–chest, wide-legs batting position, Allen was before long thought to be a more energizing batsman than his Leeward Islands partner Vivian Richards.

Outside of cricket Allen filled in as a tractor driver Allen turned into the principal proficient Montserratian sportsperson when he started playing in Britain during the northern summer, showing up for groups in the Lancashire and Cheshire cricket leagues. Allen's best season was 1976/77, where he scored 559 top of the line runs at 50.81, with a most elevated score of 150. 

Allen's acceptable structure prompted a worthwhile proposal to join the World Series Cricket (WSC) rivalry when it started in Australia in late 1977. Suggested by West Independents commander Clive Lloyd, it took WSC proprietor Kerry Packer's agents two months to discover Allen, looking through the West Non mainstream players and Britain prior to discovering him.

The solitary individual from the West Indian crew not to play Test cricket, Allen showed up in three SuperTests against the Australians however battled, scoring a sum of 44 runs with a high score of 20. 

Since his retirement, a yearly talk arrangement, hung on his birthday, has been set up in Montserrat to respect Allen. Moreover, various Montserratian specialists have composed sonnets about Allen and there are calls to name a neighborhood road or erect a sculpture of Allen before the public authority base camp in the accepted Montserrat capital Brades. Allen's significance to Montserrat was epitomized by nearby essayist Teacher Howard Fergus, who said "He (Allen) had made all Montserratians see, feel and realize that they, notwithstanding all, could scale any tallness of accomplishment achieved by those overbrimming with opportunity." 

Allen's sibling George Allen and child Davon Williams have both likewise played five star cricket for Leeward Islands.