Courtney Walsh West Indies (WI)
Batting style	Right-handed batsman (RHB)
Bowling type	Right-arm fast (RF)
	Tests	ODIs
Matches	132	205
Runs scored	936	321
Batting average	7.54	6.97
100s/50s	0/0	0/0
Top score	30*	30
BallsOvers bowled	5003.1	1803.4
Wickets	519	227
Bowling average	24.44	30.47
5 wickets in innings	22	1
10 wickets in match	3	N/A
Best bowling	7/37	5/1
Catches/stumpings	29/0	27/0
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Courtney Andrew Walsh (born October 30, 1962, Kingston, Jamaica) is a former international cricketer (fast bowler) who represented the West Indies from 1984 to 2001, captaining the West Indies in 22 Test matches. He is best known for holding the record of most Test wickets from 2000, when he broke the record of Kapil Dev, to 2004, when his record was broken by Muttiah Muralitharan and later passed by Shane Warne and Glenn McGrath. October 30 is the 303rd day of the year (304th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 62 days remaining. ... 1962 (MCMLXII) was a common year starting on Monday (link will take you to calendar). ... Location of Kingston Kingston (population 600,000) is the capital of Jamaica. ... For the insect, see Cricket (insect). ... Fast bowling, sometimes known as pace bowling, is one of the two approaches to bowling in the sport of cricket. ... Darren Gough bowling A bowler in the sport of cricket is usually a player whose speciality is bowling. ... Learie Constantine, was one of the first great West Indian players. ... 1984 (MCMLXXXIV) was a leap year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 2001: A Space Odyssey. ... Test cricket is the longest form of the sport of cricket. ... This article is about the cricket term. ... This article is about the year 2000. ... Kapil Dev Ramlal Nikhanj was the former captian of the Indian Cricket Team. ... 2004 (MMIV) was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... For more coverage of cricket, go to the Cricket portal. ... Shane Keith Warne (born September 13, 1969 in Ferntree Gully, Victoria, Australia), is an Australian cricketer, and captain of Hampshire. ... For more coverage of cricket, go to the Cricket portal. ...

Walsh's first claim to fame came in 1979 when he took 10 wickets in an innings in school cricket, which was a record at that level. Three years later, he made his first class debut. This page refers to the year 1979. ... An innings, or inning, is a segment of a game in any of a variety of sports – most notably baseball and cricket – during which a side takes its turn to bat. ... First-class cricket matches are those of at least three days length in which both teams have two innings each, and which involve either international teams or the highest division of domestic competition. ...

Walsh made his Test debut against Australia in Perth in 1984, taking 2 wickets for 43 runs. Later that season, he also made his One-day International debut against Sri Lanka at Brisbane. Perth is the state capital and most populous city of Western Australia. ... 1984 (MCMLXXXIV) was a leap year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... A One-day International (ODI) cricket match is a one-day cricket match played between two international teams each representing a particular country. ... Brisbane is the capital and most populous city in the state of Queensland, Australia. ...

In 1987, Walsh was named as one of the Wisden Cricketers of the Year. In 1989, he took 10 wickets in a Test match for the first time. In 1994, he was appointed captain of the West Indies Test team for the tours of India and New Zealand after Richie Richardson was ordered to rest because of "acute fatigue syndrome". In 1995, he took 62 Test wickets at an average of 21.75 runs per wicket, a performance which he bettered in 2000 when he took 66 Test wickets at an average of 18.69, including 34 wickets in the Test series against England at an average of 12.82 runs per wicket. He came close to (but did not beat) the record for a West Indian bowler of 35 wickets in a Test series (set by Malcolm Marshall in 1988). In the 1990s, his partnership with Curtly Ambrose was one of the most feared bowling attacks in world cricket. 1987 (MCMLXXXVII) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Wisden is the main publisher of information on cricket in the United Kingdom. ... The Wisden Cricketers of the Year award is made annually in the pages of the Wisden Cricketers Almanack yearbook. ... 1989 (MCMLXXXIX) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 1994 (MCMXCIV in Roman) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International year of the Family. ... Richard Benjamin Richardson was born January 12th 1962 in Five Islands Village, Antigua. ... 1995 (MCMXCV in Roman) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... This article is about the year 2000. ... The English cricket team is a cricket team which represents England and Wales, operating under the auspices of the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB). ... Malcolm Denzil Marshall (April 18, 1958 - November 4, 1999) was a West Indian cricketer, one of the finest fast bowlers ever to have played Test cricket, despite being (unusually for an out-and-out quick, especially when compared to the likes of fellow West Indian quicks Joel Garner, Colin Croft... 1988 (MCMLXXXVIII) was a leap year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar. ... The 1990s decade refers to the years from 1990 to 1999, inclusive. ... Curtly Elconn Lynwall Ambrose (b. ...

During the first part of his career, Walsh served as the "stock" bowler in an attack featuring Marshall, 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 used his height (about 198cm, or six-foot-six) to extract occasionally vicious bounce. Even as he lost pace in the latter stage of his career he continued to take wickets at an undiminished rate; teams tended to defend against he and Ambrose and attack the weak third and fourth bowlers. Joel Garner (born December 16, 1952) also known as Big Joel or Big Bird, was a West Indian cricket player, and a member of the highly regarded late 70s and early 80s West Indies cricket sides. ...

Walsh played his last One-day International against New Zealand in 2000 and his last Test match against South Africa in his homeland, Jamaica, in 2001. This article is about the year 2000. ... 2001: A Space Odyssey. ...

Walsh is one of only 4 bowlers to have bowled over 5000 overs in Test cricket, the other three being spinners: Muttiah Muralitharan of Sri Lanka and Shane Warne of Australia, and Anil Kumble of India. These four, in addition to Glenn McGrath are also the only bowlers to have taken 500 or more Test wickets. Among the four, Walsh is the only one who has not taken 8 or more wickets in an innings. Walsh took 519 Test wickets, which was the world record until passed by Muttiah Muralitharan in Zimbabwe in 2004. In One-day Internationals, Walsh was not as successful although he will be remembered for his best performance, 5 wickets for just 1 run. In first-class cricket, he took 5 wickets in an innings more than 100 times and 10 wickets in a match 20 times. As of May 2004, he and Wasim Akram are the only 2 cricketers to have played over 100 Test matches and taken fewer than 50 catches. In the sport of cricket an over is a series of six consecutive balls bowled by a single bowler. ... Spin bowling, sometimes known as slow bowling, is a technique used for bowling in the sport of cricket. ... For more coverage of cricket, go to the Cricket portal. ... Shane Keith Warne (born September 13, 1969 in Ferntree Gully, Victoria, Australia), is an Australian cricketer, and captain of Hampshire. ... Anil Radhakrishna Kumble (pronounced COOM-bley) (born October 17, 1970 in Bangalore, Karnataka) is an Indian cricketer and has been a member of the Indian cricket team since 1990. ... For more coverage of cricket, go to the Cricket portal. ... Wasim Akram (born June 3, 1966 in Lahore Pakistan) is widely recognized as the best left arm fast bowler that the cricketing world has ever seen. ...

Walsh's feats with the bat are rather less flattering, as indicated by an average of seven in both Test cricket and one-day internationals. He also holds the record for the most Test ducks (43). His highest score, co-incidentally, 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. Whether this was in appreciation of his batting or an attempt to wind up the bowling side is open to interpretation. That said, Courtney is a much loved and respected cricketer and the West Indies have arguably yet to find a fast bowler with anything approaching his talents.

Walsh is also famous for his sportsmanlike gesture of not mankading last man Abdul Qadir of Pakistan in a World Cup match in 1987, which cost the West Indies the match and a place in the semi-finals. Run out is a method of dismissal in the sport of cricket. ... Cricket World Cup 2007 logo The ICC Cricket World Cup is the world championship of one-day cricket, a tournament held quadrenially between all Test-playing nations, as well as several representatives from other cricket-playing nations who qualify through a series of qualifying matches. ...

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Trivia

• His 25th Test wicket was that of Javed Miandad.
• His 500th Test wicket was that of Jacques Kallis.

Mohammad Javed Miandad Khan (born June 12, 1957), known in the Cricketing World as Javed Miandad, was born in Karachi, Pakistan. ... Jacques Kallis (born 16 October 1975 in Cape Town) is a South African cricketer. ...

External links

• Cricinfo Player Profile : Courtney Walsh
• Courtney Walsh player profile on CricketArchive
• Courtney Walsh Center on CaribbeanCricket.com
• Jackie Hewitt's tribute to Courtney Walsh
• Behind The Walsh