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Courtney Andrew Walsh OJ (born 30 October 1962) is a former Jamaican cricketer who represented the West Indies from 1984 to 2001, captaining the West Indies in 22 Test matches. He is a fast bowler, and best known for a remarkable opening bowling partnership along with fellow West Indian Curtly Ambrose for several years. Walsh played 132 Tests and 205 ODIs for the West Indies and took 519 and 227 wickets respectively. He shared 421 Test wickets with Ambrose in 49 matches. He held the record of most Test wickets from 2000, after he broke the record of Kapil Dev. This record was later broken in 2004 by Shane Warne. He was the first bowler to reach 500 wickets in Test cricket. His autobiography is entitled "Heart of the Lion". Walsh was named one of the Wisden Cricketers of the Year in 1987, and one of the Indian Cricket Cricketer of the Year a year later. In October 2010, he was inducted into the ICC Cricket Hall of Fame. He was appointed as the Specialist Bowling Coach of Bangladesh Cricket Team in August 2016.

Courtney Walsh
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Personal information
Full name Courtney Andrew Walsh
Born (1962-10-30) 30 October 1962 (age 55)
Kingston, Jamaica
Nickname Two C's (along with Curtly Ambrose)
Height 6 ft 5.5 in (1.97 m)
Batting Right-hand batsman
Bowling Right-arm medium fast
Role Bowler, Selector
International information
National side
  • West Indies (1984-2001)
Test debut (cap 183) 9 November 1984 v Australia
Last Test 19 April 2001 v South Africa
ODI debut (cap 45) 10 January 1985 v Sri Lanka
Last ODI 11 January 2000 v New Zealand
ODI shirt no. 12, 33
Domestic team information
YearsTeam
1981/82–2000/01 Jamaica
1984–1998 Gloucestershire
Career statistics
Competition Test ODI FC List A
Matches 132 205 429 440
Runs scored 936 321 4530 1304
Batting average 7.54 6.97 11.32 8.75
100s/50s 0/0 0/0 0/8 0/0
Top score 30* 30 66 38
Balls bowled 30019 10822 85443 21881
Wickets 519 227 1807 551
Bowling average 24.44 30.47 21.71 25.14
5 wickets in innings 22 1 104 5
10 wickets in match 3 n/a 20 n/a
Best bowling 7–37 5–1 9–72 6–21
Catches/stumpings 29/– 27/– 117/– 68/–
Source: CricketArchive, 21 August 2008

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Early life and first-class career

Courtney Andrew Walsh was born on 30 October 1962 in Kingston, Jamaica. He played his early cricket there with the same cricket club for which Michael Holding also played cricket—the Melbourne club. Walsh first claim to fame came in 1979 when he took 10 wickets in an innings in school cricket and three years later made his first-class cricket debut. He played 427 matches of this format between 1981 and 2001, and took 1,807 wickets at the average of 21.71, including 104 five-wicket hauls and 20 ten-wicket hauls. Walsh played first-class cricket for Gloucestershire County Cricket Club (Gloucestershire CCC) from 1985 to 1998.

Walsh played cricket for the West Indies from 1984 to 2001, Gloucestershire County Cricket Club (Gloucestershire CCC) from 1984 to 1998, Jamaica cricket team from 1981–82 to 1999–00, Rest of the World XI in 1987 and West Indies A in 1991–92. He first played for Gloucestershire CCC in 1984 and was a mainstay of the side until 1998.

International career

Walsh made his Test debut against Australia in Perth in 1984, taking 2 wickets for 43 runs. He played six Test matches during the 1984–85 season, five against Australia in the 1984–85 series between the teams, and one Test against New Zealand in the home series. He took 16 wickets in the season conceding 507 runs. In the same season, Walsh also made his One Day International debut against Sri Lanka at Hobart during the World Series Cup. He took one wicket for 47 from 10 overs in the match. In the next two seasons, Walsh played a match at home against England, three matches against Pakistan and three matches against New Zealand, both outside the West Indies. He too 29 wickets from seven matches in these seasons, including a five-wicket haul against New Zealand. In 1987, Walsh was named as one of the Wisden Cricketers of the Year for his performance the previous year.

In the 1987–88 season, Walsh toured India and played four Test matches against them, taking 26 wickets at an average of 16.80. In the first Test of the series at Feroz Shah Kotla Ground, he took six wickets for 67 runs, including five wickets for 54 runs





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