Eldine Baptiste

West Indies

Full name Eldine Ashworth Elderfield Baptiste

Born March 12, 1960, Liberta, Antigua

Current age 60 years 85 days

Major teams West Indies, Cumberland, Eastern Province, Kent, KwaZulu-Natal, Leeward Islands, Northamptonshire

Batting style Right-hand bat

Bowling style Right-arm fast-medium

Other Coach

Batting and fielding averages

	Mat	Inns	NO	Runs	HS	Ave	BF	SR	100	50	6s	Ct
Tests	10	11	1	233	87*	23.30			0	1	1	2
ODIs	43	16	4	184	31	15.33	241	76.34	0	0	0	14
First-class	245	341	50	8070	136*	27.73			3	47		120
List A	310	210	43	2732	65	16.35			0	9		98

Bowling averages

	Mat	Inns	Balls	Runs	Wkts	BBI	BBM	Ave	Econ	SR	4w	5w	10
Tests	10	19	1362	563	16	3/31	4/56	35.18	2.48	85.1	0	0	0
ODIs	43	43	2214	1511	36	2/10	2/10	41.97	4.09	61.5	0	0	0
First-class	245		41533	17823	723	8/76		24.65	2.57	57.4		32	4
List A	310		14735	9744	365	6/13	6/13	26.69	3.96	40.3	8	4	0

Career statistics

Test debut	India v West Indies at Kanpur, Oct 21-25, 1983 scorecard
Last Test	West Indies v England at St John's, Apr 12-16, 1990 scorecard
Test statistics
ODI debut	India v West Indies at Srinagar, Oct 13, 1983 scorecard
Last ODI	West Indies v England at Georgetown, Mar 15, 1990 scorecard
ODI statistics
First-class span	1981 - 2000/01
List A span	1981 - 2000/01

Profile

Eldine Baptiste played 10 Tests over seven years - and West Indies won the lot. It's ironic that Baptiste has such an unblemished record, because he hardly set the world alight. Baptiste - who made his first-class debut for Kent, in 1981 - was a useful bowling allrounder, who wielded the willow with a typical Caribbean flourish, particularly when he walloped 87 at Edgbaston in 1984. He could field too: that summer he famously ran out Geoff Miller at Lord's, knocking his middle stump out of the ground from 80 yards away. He later took up coaching, most successfully with the Stanford 20/20 Super Stars who won the $20 million prize in 2008 after beating England. In September 2009 he was appointed Kenya coach.
Rob Smyth

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