Courtney walsh autobiography meaning

The West Indian workaholic explains how he became one of the most prolific and durable fast bowlers the game has seen. From the get-go I wanted to play cricket. I had a special love for the game from an early age and just wanted to play all the time. I started out playing for Melbourne Cricket Club in Jamaica, the same club as Mikey Holding, and then watching West Indies play for the first time gave me those vibes that this was something I wanted to be involved with.

When I made my Test debut in Australia in , alongside Mikey, Malcolm Marshall and Joel Garner, there was a wow factor to be in the same team as these superstars. This was a boyhood dream come true. I was very dedicated to looking after myself from an early age. Courtney Andrew Walsh. Favourite Jamaican genre? You may also like. His cricket journey began at the Melbourne Cricket Club.

Growing up near the club, Courtney was surrounded by cricket, hearing the sound of bats hitting balls every evening, which inspired his love for the game. Facebook Instagram. Player Bio. At Cricsupp, we strive to offer in-depth profiles covering various aspects of cricketers lives, including their age, height, family, relationships, career stats, net worth, and much more.

Contact us: contact digiflick. May 21, July 2, During the West Indies tour of Australia in —89, Walsh played five Tests and took 17 wickets at His best bowling in the series came the first innings of the first match, taking four wickets for 62 runs, including a hat-trick. In , he was appointed captain of the West Indies for the tours of India and New Zealand after Richie Richardson was ordered to rest because of "acute fatigue syndrome".

In , he took 62 Test wickets at an average of Coming close to the record for a West Indian bowler of 35 wickets in a Test series set by Malcolm Marshall in In the s, his partnership with Curtly Ambrose was one of the most feared bowling attacks in world cricket.

Courtney walsh autobiography meaning

During the first part of his career, Walsh served as the "stock" bowler in an attack featuring Marshall, Joel Garner and later Ambrose, but after the retirement of Marshall and Garner took the role as opening bowler. His action lacked the elegance of those bowlers, but its economy and his natural athleticism ensured he was accurate and durable, even over very long spells and he used his height about cm, or six-foot-six to extract vicious bounce.

Even as he lost pace in the later stage of his career he continued to take wickets at an undiminished rate; teams tended to defend against him and Ambrose and attack the weaker third and fourth bowlers. In ODIs, Walsh was not as successful although he will be remembered for his best performance, 5 wickets for just 1 run against Sri Lanka in In first-class cricket, he took 5 wickets in an innings more than times and 10 wickets in a match 20 times.

His highest score, coincidentally, was 30 in both forms of the game. By the end of his career, he had such a reputation for poor batting that the crowd would cheer every ball he faced. His most significant if scoreless innings came when he kept Brian Lara company during a last-wicket stand to ensure victory in the match and thus a draw in the series against Australia in the Third Test in Walsh also took seven wickets in the match.

Walsh is a much loved and respected cricketer and the West Indies have yet to find a fast bowler with anything approaching his talents. Walsh is also famous for his sportsmanlike gesture of not mankading last man Saleem Jaffar of Pakistan in a World Cup match in , which cost the West Indies the match and a place in the semi-finals. In May , Walsh was chosen one of the Jamaica's five greatest cricketers of all time.

He has a dubious distinction of being one of three players to play more than test matches and not make a half-century, the others being Nathan Lyon and Makhaya Ntini. This was his solitary five-wicket haul in the format. In , Walsh became the highest wicket-taker in Test cricket, breaking a six-year-old record of Kapil Dev's wickets. He achieved the feat in his th match, which are 17 matches less than Kapil Dev.

Walsh's feats with the bat are rather less flattering, as indicated by an average of seven in both Test cricket and ODIs. He also holds the record for the most Test ducks 43 , and also held the record for the most "not outs" — 61 times — until passed by James Anderson in Walsh played Tests and ODI matches, and took and wickets respectively.

Walsh holds the record for the best bowling figures 13 for 55 for a captain in a Test match. During his Test career, spanned over seventeen years, Walsh bowled Cricket critics considered him that he was "one of the most admired cricketers of recent times and will long be remembered as one of the game's most revered players. He took six wickets for runs in the match.