Career
He is the cousin of Garry Sobers. Holford was a middle-order batsman and leg-spinner. Holford scored 105 not out, his only Test century.
He took 5 wickets and made 80 in the First Test against India in 1966-1967, but then suffered an attack of pleurisy and had to return home.
He never had a regular place in the Test team after that. His best Test bowling figures came in 1975-1976 when he took 5 for 23 on the first day against India in the First Test at Bridgetown.
He played for Barbados from 1960-1961 to 1978-1979 (apart from a season in Trinidad in 1962-1963), captaining the team in most matches from 1969-1970 until 1978-1979. His highest first-class score was 111 for Barbados against the touring Indians in 1970-1971, when he put on 213 with Sobers for the fourth wicket.
His best first-class bowling figures were 8 for 52 (12 for 115 in the match) for the West Indian touring team against Cambridge University in 1966.
He also took 4 for 89 and 6 for 61 for Barbados against Combined Leeward and Windward Islands in 1969-1970. He later played in Kerry Packer"s World Series Cricket, and served on the West Indies selection panel. He has a degree in agriculture and has worked as a soil scientist, and another degree in computer studies.
