Tino Best
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| Tino Best | ||||
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 West Indies |
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| Batting style | Right hand bat | |||
| Bowling style | Right arm fast | |||
| Career statistics | ||||
| Tests | ODIs | |||
| Matches | 12 | 10 | ||
| Runs scored | 174 | 44 | ||
| Batting average | 10.23 | 11.00 | ||
| 100s/50s | -/- | -/- | ||
| Top score | 27 | 24 | ||
| Balls bowled | 1851 | 446 | ||
| Wickets | 26 | 12 | ||
| Bowling average | 45.03 | 29.75 | ||
| 5 wickets in innings | - | - | ||
| 10 wickets in match | - | n/a | ||
| Best bowling | 4/46 | 4/35 | ||
| Catches/stumpings | 1/- | 3/- | ||
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As of 25 January 2006 |
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Tino la Bertram Best (born August 26, 1981 in Barbados) is a West Indian cricketer.
Short in stature, Tino Best is a fast and aggressive bowler in the spirit that took the West Indies to the top of world cricket throughout the 1970s and 1980s. However, the statistics of his career are not yet impressive, with a bowling average of 45 in Test cricket.
A little known fact about Best is that he made six appearances for a small cricket club in Shropshire (Madeley Salop Cricket Club) where his express pace was extremely successful. His stay was unfortunately cut short by his call up to West Indies A for their tour of England in the summer of 2002.
In the West Indies 2004 tour of England, Best played in the Lord's Test and was famously stumped off Ashley Giles' bowling after some jovial banter from Andrew Flintoff wound him up sufficiently to try to slog the ball into the windows at Lord's.
The world was shown a glimpse of what he can achieve in the Second Test against Pakistan in 2005. After a wicketless first innings - where he had Kamran Akmal caught off a no ball - and a second innings spell of 5-0-30-0, Best took four wickets in 11 balls, as Pakistan faltered from 223 for 4 to 309 all out. However, it was not enough to give West Indies the win.
Best has not yet matched his early promise, and was dropped from the Test side after the July 2005 tour of Sri Lanka, with his only ODI appearance since that tour being a May 2006 match against Zimbabwe.
Best has recently agreed to play for a small village side playing in the T. Rippon Mid Essex Cricket Premier League called High Roding. However at an EGM called by fellow club Springfield it was voted that Best could not play in the league. The official ruling was that "no player that has played first class cricket in the previous 24 months can play in the league."
Best has agreed to play for Leek Cricket Club in the North Staffordshire & South Cheshire Premier League for the 2008 English season. Despite successful performances for Barbados in domestic cricket he has not been part of the West Indies side since 2005 and, in February 2008, signed with the rebel Indian Cricket League for three years, putting his future international career in doubt.
