Greatest cricket player of West Indies cricket team: Sir Isaac Vivian Alexander Richards
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Sir Isaac Vivian Alexander Richards, more popularly known as Viv is quite a recognized figure in the list of former West Indies cricketers. His fearless demeanor and determined performance earned him a lot of fame. At the same time, he enjoyed the intimidating aura he possessed against bowlers from the opposition team! Richards’s skill of taking good-length balls through midwickets from outside off-stumps is still known to be his trademark.
Born on 7th March, 1952, Richards was nominated amongst one of the top Cricketers of the Century back in 2000 and in 2002, he was also elected as one of the best ODI batsman alongside the honor of being the third greatest Test batsman of all time.
It was in 1974 in a Test match when Richards market his debit by giving in a challenging score followed with a victorious 192 in the second test match of the same series. He scored 8,540 runs in a total of 121 Test innings averaging 50.23 and included 24 centuries. During the World Series Cricket held during 1977-79, he also scored an impressive 5 centuries. Having made a score from only 56 balls during the 1986 tour against England, Richards won the title of ‘Scorer of the Fastest-Ever Test Century’. His achievement in the Cricket World Cup of 1975 was quite a memorable experience which followed with any superb feat in the following World Cup of 1979 wherein Richards made a century in the final.
Throughout his career, 1976 turned out to be the finest year as he was able to score 1,719 runs at an average of 90! Additionally, he made 7 centuries during the 11 Tests he was a part of. Richards savored the honor of captaining the West Indian team from 1984 to 1991, leading in 50 Test innings. He was the only West Indian captain who never lost any Test series. He played his entire career without any helmet on and was always ready to strike back!
Today, we affiliate hiss name with the Sir Vivian Richards Stadium: a cricket stadium in North Sound and has been named after him.
Popular cricket players of West Indian cricket team: Roger Andrew Harper
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Roger Andrew Harper is an ex-cricketer of the West Indian cricket team who later took up the responsibility of a coach. Harper had quite an extensive International career which lasted 13 years. He played Test and ODI cricket for his team and was identified as a remarkable fielder of his time.
His career highlights consist of his premier test average of 28.06 that is above that of Gibbs and thus gives him the leverage of hitting the chief average amongst all West Indies team spinners with a feat of a minimum of 25 Test wickets, and the 1996 Cricket World Cup when he was in full control of the match with a 4/47. A right-handed batsman and bowling off-breaks with his right arm, Harper was known as an all rounder as well.
Throughout his playing career, Harper recorded a total of 535 runs in 25 Tests and won 46 wickets; he also played 200 first-class matches and upon retirement, he took up the position of a coach for the West Indies cricket team from 2000-2003. In 2006, he was offered and subsequently appointed to take over the Kenyan National Team: a position he stepped down from in September 2007.
Famous cricket player of West Indian cricket team: Peter Jeffrey Dujon
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Peter Jeffrey Dujon , a retired player of the West Indian cricket team, is a renowned wicketkeeper of the team during the 1980s when he dominated the field with his overwhelming presence behind the vase. Not just this, we was a superb and challenging batsman of the lower-order.
It was in 1974 that Peter Jeffrey Dujon made his first-class debut from where he went on to 200 first-class matches for West Indies cricket team and Jamaica. His superb career lasted over a good 19 years during which he scored around 10,000 runs averaging near 40 runs per innings. This was considered to be an outstanding graph scale when taken into comparison with other renowned wicket-keepers of the time. Not just this, he also bagged 447 catches along with 22 stumpings. Dujon was in fact one of the five cricketers in 1989 having been honored with the prestigious Wisden Cricketers of the Year.
Upon his retirement in 1992, he has been employed as an assistant coach for the national team of his company contributing to the development of all emerging cricketers of his native Jamaica. He was a spectacular sight to watch on the field and his determined playing aura made his presence on the base even more influential.
Popular players of West Indian cricket team: Desmond Leo Haynes
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Desmond Haynes is known as a former yet renowned cricketer and coach of the West Indian cricket team. It was in 1991 when he was bequeathed with the honor of Wisden Cricketer of the Year. At present, he is appointed as the Director of the Board of West Indies cricket team.
During the 1980s, Haynes was vastly identified for his threatening partnership with popular West Indian cricket player Greenidge in Test cricket wherein they together hit 16 century stands of which four exceeded a score of 200. In fact, together they made a total of 6,482 runs, the highest score for any batting partnership particularly in the history of Test cricket. Haynes always had a strong bent of interest towards batting, this being quite evident from the 7,487 runs he acquired in 116 Test matches averaging on 42.29. This was Haynes highest Test innings against England hitting 184 from 395 balls in 1984. He played for the 1979 World Cup in which West Indies emerged as the final victorious team. After this, he appeared in the following tournaments of 1983, 1987 and 1992. In a total of 25 matches he played for World Cup, Haynes recorded a score of 854 runs at 37.13 including one century and three 50s.
Post-retirement in 1997, Haynes was appointed as the Chairman of Selectors of the Barbados Cricket Association, Secretary of the West Indies Player Association, President of Carlton Cricket Club and is now the Director of West Indies Cricket Board.
Greatest West Indian cricket player: Courtney Andrew Walsh
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Andrew Walsh is a former fast bowler of the West Indian cricket team who played at International level from 1984-2001 while he performed as a captain for the team in a total of 22 Test matches. Today, Walsh is most recognized for his brilliant opening bowling alliance with Curtly Ambrose. Not just this, he is also popular for making the record of maximum number of Test wickets from 2000.
Walsh made his first step into the world of fame in 1979 when he bagged 10 wickets in an innings performed in school cricket while it was only three years later that he made his first-class playing debut. In his Test debut against Australia in 1984, Walsh took 2 wickets for 43 runs. Later in the same season, he made his debut for ODI against Sri Lanka while in 2000, he played his last ODI against New Zealand cricket team. Walsh was bequeathed with the honor of being one of the Wisden Cricketers of the Year in 1987. Having been appointed as a captain for the West Indian cricket team for the tours of New Zealand and India in 1994, he bagged 62 Test wickets at an average of 21.75 runs per wicket in 1995. This feat was better enhanced in 2000 when the then performed at an average of 18.69 while securing 66 Test wickets. This included 34 wickets in the Test series that Walsh played against the English team at an average of 12.82 runs per wickets.
Today, Courtney Andrew Walsh is a regular feature of the Lashing World XI and owns a restaurant by the name of Cuddyz in Jamaica.