Mohammad Javed Omar Belim,known in the early days of his career by the nickname Gullu is a former Bangladeshi cricketer who has played Tests and ODI cricket since 1995,and a former captain in both formats. Jawed bid bye after a friendly domestic match on January 3,2014.
Sir Cuthbert Gordon Greenidge is a retired Barbadian cricketer,who represented the West Indies in Test and One-day Cricket for 17 years,as well as Barbados and Hampshire in first-class cricket. Greenidge is regarded worldwide as one of the greatest and most destructive opening batsmen in cricket history. In 2009,Greenidge was inducted into the ICC Cricket Hall of Fame.
Mohinder Amarnath Bhardwaj is a former Indian cricketer,cricket analyst and actor. He is the son of Lala Amarnath,the first post-independence captain of India. Mohinder was a member of the Indian team that won the 1983 Cricket World Cup.
Barry Anderson Richards is a former South African first-class cricketer. A right-handed "talent of such enormous stature",Richards is considered one of South Africa's most successful batsmen. He was able to play only four Test matches –all against Australia –before South Africa's exclusion from the international scene in 1970. In that brief career,against a competitive Australian attack,Richards scored 508 runs at the high average of 72.57. Richards' contribution in that series was instrumental in the 4–0 win that South Africa inflicted on the side,captained by Bill Lawry. His first century,140,was scored in conjunction with Graeme Pollock's 274 in a famous 103-run partnership. Mike Procter,whose South African and English career roughly paralleled that of Richards,was prominent in that series as a bowler.
Sir Anderson Montgomery Everton Roberts,KCN is a former Antiguan first-class cricketer who is considered the father of modern West Indian fast bowling. Roberts played Test cricket for the West Indies,twice taking seven wickets in a Test innings,and was a member of the team that won both the 1975 Cricket World Cup and the 1979 Cricket World Cup respectively. Arriving in England in 1972,he played first-class cricket for Hampshire County Cricket Club and then later for Leicestershire County Cricket Club.
Sandeep Patil is an Indian former cricketer,India national age-group cricket manager and former Kenya national team coach,who guided the underdogs to the semi-finals of the 2003 World Cup. He was a hard-hitting middle order batsman and an occasional medium pace bowler. Patil was a member of the Indian team that won the 1983 Cricket World Cup. He was the coach of Mumbai Champs in the Indian Cricket League,but returned to the mainstream when he cut ties with the unofficial league in 2009. He has been appointed as the director of National Cricket Academy (NCA) by the BCCI,replacing Dav Whatmore. He was appointed as the new chief of the BCCI Selection Committee on 27 September 2012.
Carl Llewelyn Hooper is a former Guyanese cricketer who captained the West Indies in Tests and ODIs. An all-rounder,he was a right-handed batsman and off-spin bowler,who came to prominence in the late 1980s in a side that included such players as Gordon Greenidge,Desmond Haynes,Malcolm Marshall and Courtney Walsh and represented the West Indies over a 16-year international career.
Balwinder Singh Sandhu is an Indian former Test cricketer. He represented India in eight Test matches as a medium pace bowler who could swing the ball and was a useful batsman. Sandhu was a member of the Indian team that won the 1983 Cricket World Cup.
Stuart Clayton Williams is a former West Indian cricketer. One of the opening batsmen tried after the retirement of Gordon Greenidge and Desmond Haynes,Williams was a batsman who may have not demonstrated his true potential as an opening batsman,may have been better suited to lower down the order.
Trevor Edward Jesty is an English former cricketer and cricket umpire. As a player he was an all rounder who played 490 first-class matches,scoring 21,916 runs and taking 585 wickets,between 1966 and 1991.
Mudassar Nazar is a Pakistani cricket coach and former cricketer with a career in Test cricket for Pakistan and in league cricket in Pakistan and England. He was an opening batsman who played 76 test and 122 one-day matches for Pakistan. After retiring from professional cricket,he has had a number of administrative positions in the cricketing world,including two stints as coach for Pakistan in 1993 and 2001,for Kenya and for several other teams. He was born in Lahore,Punjab.
John Henry Childs is a former cricketer who played in two Test matches for England in 1988. At the age of 36 years 320 days,Childs became the oldest player since Dick Howorth in 1947 to make his England debut. He was a left-arm spin bowler,and played his domestic cricket for Gloucestershire and Essex.
Leonard Baichan is a former West Indian international cricketer who played as a batsman. Baichan featured in three Test matches from 1975 to 1976,scoring a century on his debut. He also scored over 4,000 runs at an average of 51.18 with 13 centuries and 23 half centuries in his first class career.
Alvin Ethelbert Greenidge is a former West Indian cricketer who played in six Tests and one ODI from 1978 to 1979. Born in Barbados,he was an opening batsman who shares his name with,but is unrelated to,fellow opener Gordon Greenidge. He was selected to play for West Indies when the side was depleted by the defection of players to the breakaway World Series Cricket. Their return after WSC ended,as well as his participation in the tour of South Africa in 1982–83 signified the end for Alvin's international career. His best score of 69 in Tests came against Australia in 1977–78.
Ian Ronald Watson is an English former first-class cricketer.
The 1976 English cricket season was the 77th in which the County Championship had been an official competition. Clive Lloyd adopted a new approach to Test cricket as a battery of pace bowlers was used to intimidate the England batsmen. Lloyd adopted the tactic after his own team's experiences against Jeff Thomson and Dennis Lillee the previous year. England's batsmen were no match for Andy Roberts and Michael Holding,but even more worrying was a dearth of effective England bowlers and it was West Indian batsmen like Viv Richards and Gordon Greenidge who were the real stars of a long,hot,dry summer. Middlesex won the County Championship.
This is a list of the final 15-man squads named for the 1999 Cricket World Cup in England which took place from 14 May 1999 to 20 June 1999,in accordance to the jersey number worn. Each team had to number the players from 1 to 15 and usually captains wore the no.1 jersey. The oldest player at the 1999 Cricket World Cup was Ian Philip (40/41) of Scotland while the youngest player was Mohammad Sheikh (18) of Kenya.
Mark Lavine was a West Indian cricketer. He was a right-handed batsman and right-arm fast bowler and a cousin of Gordon Greenidge. He played first-class and List A cricket for Barbados in the West Indies and for North West in South Africa. He also represented Barbados in the cricket tournament at the 1998 Commonwealth Games. He died aged 28 of a heart attack while playing league cricket in Coventry,England.
The India national cricket team toured the West Indies during the 1982–83 cricket season. They played five Test matches against the West Indian cricket team,with the West Indies winning the series 2–0.
In cricket,a batsman may retire from an innings at any time when the ball is dead;they must then be replaced by a teammate who has not been dismissed. The most common reason for retirement is if the batsman becomes injured or unwell,in which case they can resume their innings.
