Education
He was educated at Wesley College, Colombo, and played in turn for Moors Sports Club, Colts Cricket Club and Colombo Cricket Club.
He was educated at Wesley College, Colombo, and played in turn for Moors Sports Club, Colts Cricket Club and Colombo Cricket Club.
An off-spinner who sometimes opened the batting, he made his first-class debut in the Gopalan Trophy in 1956-1957, taking two wickets and two catches and making 15 runs in a low-scoring victory for Ceylon. In the 1960-1961 Gopalan Trophy match he top-scored in Ceylon"s first innings with 68 batting at number 10, then took 3 for 44 and 2 for 75 in a 169-run victory for Ceylon. He toured India with Ceylon in 1964-1965 and played in all three matches against India but had little success with the ball, taking only two wickets.
In single-innings matches against touring sides Fuard took the wickets of many prominent Test batsmen: Bill Lawry and Bob Simpson when the Australians visited in April 1961, Tom Graveney, Peter Parfitt, Ray Illingworth and Fred Titmus against Master Control Console in October 1962, Norman O"Neill and Bob Cowper against the Australians in April 1964, Parfitt again, Mike Smith, John Murray and Jim Parks against Master Control Console in October 1966, John Edrich against Master Control Console in January 1969, and Doug Walters against the Australians in October that year.
His last first-class wicket, in February 1970, was of Geoff Boycott. He served as a cricket administrator, manager, curator, coach and national selector.
A forceful man, he was one of the principal administrators behind the successful push for Sri Lanka"s admission to Test status. However, he could be difficult, and he made enemies as well as admirers.
He was behind the appointment of two of the selectors for Ceylon"s first-ever tour of England in 1968.
The government was already reluctant to come up with the money to support the two-month tour, and when Fuard"s two selectors chose themselves and Fuard in the touring team and omitted some prominent players, the resultant uproar among the cricket fraternity led the government to cancel the tour. In his last years he suffered from kidney failure and eventually blindness.