BeccaSENIOR SPORT Editor and world-renowned cricket writer Tony Becca retired undefeated at 62 after 20 years of service with the Gleaner Company Ltd on Friday.
Becca covered more than 100 Test matches for the newspaper and was renowned and respected for his keen insight into the game and his consummate professionalism.
The senior statesman of the Sport Department also had more than one string to his bow as he was a true sport all-rounder.
Football, golf, tennis and table tennis were numbered among the sports which fell comfortably off his fingertips and into the pages of The Gleaner and informed a nation of what was happening in the island's sporting world.
His regular columns 'From the Boundary' on sport both local and international merely enhanced his reputation as a writer with few peers for all-round knowledge.
Still it was cricket, his passion, which stamped him as a class above his contemporaries.
Never overly critical but always analytical, Becca saw the game's action and movements on and off the field as well as anyone has done.
To many he was the reliable voice of sport information and he will be sorely missed by colleagues and readers of this publication.
However, he will continue to write his column and cover special assignments for The Gleaner.
