Albert Walsh (cricketer)
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Albert Walsh is a former West Indian cricket
Cricket
Cricket is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of 11 players on an oval-shaped field, at the centre of which is a rectangular 22-yard long pitch. One team bats, trying to score as many runs as possible while the other team bowls and fields, trying to dismiss the batsmen and thus limit the...

er. He was a left-handed batsman and right-arm medium pace bowler. He played 18 first-class
First-class cricket
First-class cricket is a class of cricket that consists of matches of three or more days' scheduled duration, that are between two sides of eleven players and are officially adjudged first-class by virtue of the standard of the competing teams...

 and nine List A matches for the Leeward Islands
Leeward Islands cricket team
The Leeward Islands cricket team is a first class cricket team representing the member countries of the Leeward Islands Cricket Association, a regional association which again is part of the West Indies Cricket Board. Contrary to the normal English definition of the Leeward Islands, Dominica is not...

 in the late 1980s and early 1990s. In 1998, more than five years after his last appearance for the Leeward Islands, he played for Antigua and Barbuda
Antigua and Barbuda
Antigua and Barbuda is a twin-island nation lying between the Caribbean Sea and the Atlantic Ocean. It consists of two major inhabited islands, Antigua and Barbuda, and a number of smaller islands...

 in the cricket tournament
Cricket at the 1998 Commonwealth Games
Cricket was included in the 1998 Commonwealth Games in Malaysia. This was the first—and, to date, only—time cricket has been played at a Commonwealth Games. Matches were played over 50 overs, and had List A status, although they were not full One Day Internationals...

 at the 1998 Commonwealth Games
1998 Commonwealth Games
The 1998 XVI Commonwealth Games were held in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia from 11 September to 21 September 1998 making it the first Asian country to act as host and the last Commonwealth Games for the 20th century. A record 70 nations supplied 3638 athletes...

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Quotations

אם תרצו, אין זו אגדה

Im tirtsu, ein zo agada

In reference to the area of the Jewish state: From the Brook of Egypt to the Euphrates.

As quoted in Complete Diaries by Theodor Herzl, Volume II, page 711.

Dream and deed are not as different as many think. All the deeds of men are dreams at first, and become dreams in the end.

As quoted in The Israelis : Founders and Sons (1971) by Amos Elon, p. 57 : The Diaries of Theodore Herzl as edited and translated by Marvin Lowenthal (Dial Press, New York, 1956),

In Paris... I achieved a freer attitude toward anti-Semitism, which I now began to understand historically and to pardon. Above all, I recognized the emptiness and futility of trying to "combat" anti-Semitism.

In reaction to the Dreyfus affair|Dreyfus affair.

The anti-Semites will become our most loyal friends; the anti-Semitic nations will become our allies.

Noting that anti-semite's desire to expel Jews from their nations would aid the Zionist cause.

 
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