Courtney Walsh Career Best 7 for 37 vs New Zealand at Wellington 1995

Courtney Andrew Walsh was born on 30 October 1962 in Jamaica. A former cricketer who represented the West Indies from 1984 to 2001 and also captained the West Indies side in 22 Test matches. He is a fast bowler and considered one of the all-time greats, best known for a remarkable opening bowling partnership along with fellow West Indian Curtly Ambrose for several years.

In the 2nd Test match against New Zealand at Wellington in 1995, Courtney Walsh took the career Best 7for 37 in the first innings.   

In the 2^nd inning, he also took 6 for 18 and registered his career-best bowling 13 wickets against 55 runs in a match.

West Indies won the Toss and elected to bat first. They scored 660 for 5 declared with the contribution of Brian Lara 147, Jimmy Adams 151, Junior Murray 101, Keith Aurtheron 70, Chanderpaul 61, and Stuart Williams 26.

New Zealand bundled out 216 in the first innings and 122 in the 2^nd innings. Therefore, West Indies won the match by innings and 322 runs. Courtney Walsh was declared man of the match.  

In the first innings, Courtney Walsh took the wicket of Bryan Young 29, Andrew Jones 0, Stephen Fleming 47, Shane Thomson 6, Adam Parore 32, Murphy Sua 6, and Simon Doull 0.

In the 2^nd innings, he took 6 for 18 and captured the wickets of Bryan Young 0, Darrin Murray 43, Stephen Fleming 30, Murphy Sua 8, Simon Doull 0, and Danny Morrison 0.

Courtney Walsh is probably the most prolific bowler in history based on his physiological characteristics. There was no breaking his spirit, which led him to the previously unimaginable milestones of 519 Test wickets and 30,019 balls, not to mention the countless overs he bowled for Gloucestershire and Jamaica. He set a Test record with 43 ducks for his comic incompetence with the bat.

Courtney Walsh played 132 Tests and 205 ODIs for the West Indies and took 519 and 227 wickets respectively in Test and ODI’s. He shared 421 Test wickets with Ambrose in 49 matches. 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. In October 2010, he was inducted into the ICC Cricket Hall of Fame. He was appointed as the Specialist Bowling Coach of the Bangladesh Cricket Team in August 2016.

Rashid Latif - The Best ever Wicket-Keeper Pakistan has Ever Produced

Rashid Latif is born on 14 October 1968 in Karachi. A cricket coach and former cricketer who played for the Pakistan national cricket team in Tests and One Day Internationals from 1992 to 2003 as a right-handed wicket-keeper batsman. He also served as the captain of the Pakistan team in 2003, leading the country in 6 Tests and 25 one-day matches.

He took 5 dismissals against New Zealand in a World Cup match at Lahore. In those days, it was considered a rare performance to take five dismissals in an ODI inning.  He was a steady keeper and a handy lower-order batsman. Rashid Latif Took the catch of Craig Spearman off Aqib Bowling, Nathan Astle off Waqar’s Bowling, Chris Cairns off Aamir Sohail bowling, Shane Thomson of Waqar Younis Bowling, and Stephen Fleming Stumped off Salim Malik Bowling. Pakistan won the match by 46 runs. This was the last game of the league matches. Pakistan won 4 matches in five games.

New Zealand won the toss and elected to field first. Pakistan scored 281/5 in 50 overs, Aamir Sohail 50, Saeed Anwar 62, Ijaz Ahmad 26, Inzi 39, Salim Malik 55* and Wasim Akram 28*

In reply, New Zealand bowled out 235 runs in 47.3 overs, as Wasim Akram, Waqar Younis, Aaqib Javed, and Salim Malik took 2 wickets a piece, while Aamir Sohail took 1 wicket. Salim Malik was declared man of the match by his all-around performance of 55* runs and 2 for 41.

In education, Rashid Latif earned a BSc in computer systems engineering from the University of Engineering and Technology with Saeed Anwar.

Wasim Akram the King of Swing Bowling

In 1994, along with Waqar Younis, he bowled out to Sri Lanka for just 71 runs in the 3rd Test match at Kandy. He took 4 for 32 and 1 of 70 to deliver the series wins of 2-0. As that game illustrated, he could be more than a useful batsman.

Jimmy Maher Career, Profile, Stats, Info and Much More

  

Full Name: James Patrick Maher

Born: 27 February 1974 Innisfail Queensland,

Nickname – Mahbo

National Side: - 1998-2003 Australia

ODI Shirt No: - 46

Height – 6ft (182cm)

Batting – Left-Handed batsman

Bowling – Right-handed Medium Fast

ODI Debut – 14 Jan 1998 vs New Zealand

Last ODI – 9 November 2003 vs New Zealand

Queensland Pura Cup Captain: - 2002/03 and 2007/08

Former Australian cricketer Jimmy Maher is born on 27 February 1974 in Queensland. An attractive left-hander with a thumbing cover-drive, Jimmy Maher played two one-dayers for Australia in 1997-98.

After having played a couple of ODIs, it seemed like Maher's international career was done. However, relentless consistency in the domestic circuit saw him make a return in 2002. It was due to a sensational Pura Cup season in 2001-02, where he became the first ever batsman to aggregate over 1000 runs in a season, that Maher was able to storm his way back into the national side.

Apart from being a gifted left-handed batsman who oozed class in his strokeplay, he was a utility medium pacer and could also keep wickets when needed. Like most left-handers, Maher's signature stroke was the cover drive which he unfurled with absolute class.

Maher's bubbly personality made him a popular member of dressing rooms from the Gabba to the Gower. He took a while to get the hang of English pitches, but magnificent footwork and remarkable shot-selection won through in the end.

In the 2001/02 season, he continued that form back in Australia, slamming 174 against Victoria and 209 against South Australia on his way to becoming the first batsman to reach 1000 Pura Cup runs.

It was in the same year that Australia was determined to start the process of transition and had dropped the Waugh brothers from the ODI squad. Ricky Ponting was appointed captain and there were a plethora of changes in the squad.

As the selectors looked for youth, they also wanted experience, even if it was at the domestic circuit alone and that's where Maher came in. The tour to South Africa was his comeback series and although he played a couple of impact knocks, the consistency never really came. 

Jimmy Maher back into the one-day reckoning, when he announced his return with 95 in the second match against South Africa at Centurion in 2002 and followed that up with a vital 43 not out to secure a tie at Potchefstroom.

A series of handy one-day performances won him a place as the spare batsman (and the stand-in wicketkeeper) in the 2003 World Cup-winning squad, although he appeared in only two matches. Therefore, the tours to West Indies and India followed but his 26-match one-day journey ended when Brad Haddin assumed the backup gloveman’s role. 

Replacing Stuart Law as Queensland's captain, Jimmy Maher lost five domestic finals in a row before sealing his first win as a leader with the 2005-06 Pura Cup. He marked the occasion with a career-high 223 and then let his batsmen race to an unstoppable 6 declared for 900, dedicating the victory to victims of a fierce cyclone in north Queensland the previous week. Maher's Man-of-the-Match performance guided him to a personal haul of 906 runs at 53.29 in the competition and showed that at the age of 32 he had plenty of energy left. 

The run-scoring leader in the interstate one-day tournament, Maher's stand-out limited-overs moment came with a national-record 187 from 129 deliveries against Western Australia in 2003-04 as the Bulls charged to an unmatched 405 in 50 overs.

In February 2007, he also values highly his 108 runs in 133 balls in the limited-overs final of 2006-07, which set up Queensland's victory in the Ford Rangers Cup Final against the Victorian Bushrangers at the MCG. The Queensland Bulls went on to win the match by 21 runs. It was the third time that he had scored a century for Queensland in an Ondday domestic final.

On 11 February 2007 Maher was criticized by South Australian cricket captain Darren Lehmann for not declaring to make a game of their Pura Cup match at the Gabba. Lehmann said he thought he was playing Tasmania referring to Tasmania's reliance on the final day run chases.

Jimmy Maher caused controversy in 1995 following Queensland's Sheffield Shield win over South Australia, when he said during a television interview "I'm as full as a coon's Valiant". Indigenous Australians criticized Maher for his statement and its racial undertone. Maher later publicly apologized for the statement.

A year later, following a subdued season, he stood down with 9,933 first-class runs for the Bulls, second behind Martin Love, and headed for the Indian Cricket League.

 

Imran Khan, Wasim Akram and Saleem Jaffer in 1987 World Cup.

Great Imran Khan, with his bowling Army, Wasim Akram and Saleem Jaffer in World Cup 1987.