Pearson Best
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| Batting style | Right-handed batsman | |
| Bowling type | Right arm medium-slow | |
| Career | First-class | List A |
| Matches | 2 | 4 |
| Runs scored | 121 | 66 |
| Batting average | 30.25 | 16.50 |
| 100s/50s | 0/1 | 0/0 |
| Top score | 53 | 34 |
| Balls bowled | 81 | 0 |
| Wickets | 0 | - |
| Bowling average | - | - |
| 5 wickets in innings | - | - |
| 10 wickets in match | - | n/a |
| Best Bowling | 0/13 | - |
| Catches/Stumpings | 2/0 | 1/0 |
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First-class debut: 27 August 2005 |
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Pearson Best (born 20 December 1963 in Barbados) is a Cayman Islands cricketer.[1] An all-rounder, he is a right-handed batsman and right-arm slow-medium bowler,[2] he has played for the Cayman Islands national cricket team since the year 2000.[3] His matches include two first-class[4] and four List A matches.[5]
[edit] Playing career
Best made his debut for the Cayman Islands in the Red Stripe Bowl, a domestic competition in the West Indies, in October 2000. He played four matches in the tournament, making up his only four List A matches to date.[5] He played in the ICC Americas Championship in 2002 and 2004 and in the repêchage tournament for the 2005 ICC Trophy in 2005.[6] In the latter tournament, he won man of the match awards for his performances against Kuwait and Zambia,[7] finishing the tournament with the best batting average (76.33) and the second highest score of 99 not out.[8]
In August 2005 he played his, to date, only first-class matches, 2005 ICC Intercontinental Cup matches against Bermuda and Canada.[4] In 2006, he played for the Cayman Islands in the inaugural Stanford 20/20 tournament. He top scored with 74 in the preliminary round against the Bahamas, winning $25,000 for the man of the match award,[9] but only scored three in the first round proper against Trinidad & Tobago as the Caymans were knocked out of the tournament.[10] Only three players made a higher individual score in the tournament.[11]
Later in 2006, he again played in the Americas Championship.[6] He was the second highest scorer in the tournament,[12] winning the man of the match award for his top score of 116 against Argentina.[13] He most recently represented the Cayman Islands at Division Three of the World Cricket League in Darwin, Australia in May/June 2007.[14]
[edit] References
- ^ Cricket Archive profile
- ^ Cricinfo profile
- ^ Teams played for by Pearson Best at Cricket Archive
- ^ a b First-class matches played by Pearson Best at Cricket Archive
- ^ a b List A matches played by Pearson Best at Cricket Archive
- ^ a b Other matches played by Pearson Best at Cricket Archive
- ^ Matches in which Pearson Best won an award at Cricket Archive
- ^ Batting and Fielding in ICC World Cup Qualifying Series 2005 (Ordered by Average) at Cricket Archive
- ^ Match report of Bahamas v Cayman Islands at the tournament's official site
- ^ Scorecard of Cayman Islands v Trinidad & Tobago, 25 July 2006 at Cricket Archive
- ^ Batting and Fielding in Stanford Twenty20 2006 (Ordered by Average) at Cricket Archive
- ^ Top run scorers in 2006 ICC Americas Championship Division One at CricketEurope
- ^ Scorecard of Argentina v Cayman Islands, 26 August 2006 at CricketEurope
- ^ Squads for 2007 ICC World Cricket League Division Three at CricketEurope
