he bowled infrequently. Even so, Learie Constantine hoped that Elias would be chosen for the 1939 West Indies tour of England. Elias even paid his own expenses to travel to the trial matches in Trinidad, but was not selected for them and he did not make the tour. In the mid-1930s, Constantine joined his brother in playing English league cricket; he appeared for Rochdale Cricket Club in the Central Lancashire Cricket League, playing as an all-rounder. Constantine did not play any first-class cricket between 1936 and 1939. His best performance came in 1944, when he scored his only first-class hundred; he hit 139 runs against British Guiana, hitting five sixes. He continued to play for Trinidad until 1949; all but one of his first-class games were played for Trinidad. In total, he scored 895 runs at an average of 27.12 and took 24 wickets with his medium-paced bowling. He died in Trinidad on his 91st birthday on 22 May 2003. References Bibliography 1912 births 2003 deaths Trinidad and Tobago cricketers Cricketers from Port of Spain