Sir Wesley Winfield Hall is a Barbadian former cricketer and politician. A tall,strong and powerfully built man,Hall was a genuine fast bowler and despite his very long run up,he was renowned for his ability to bowl long spells. Hall played 48 Test matches for the West Indies from 1958 to 1969. Hall's opening bowling partnership with fellow Barbadian Charlie Griffith was a feature of the strong West Indies teams throughout the 1960s. Hall was one of the most popular cricketers of his day and was especially popular in Australia,where he played two seasons in the Sheffield Shield with Queensland.
James Southerton was an English professional cricketer who played Test cricket for England in 1877,and first-class cricket between 1854 and 1879. His domestic career was spent largely with three counties:Hampshire,Surrey,and Sussex. He would sometimes play for multiple counties in a season,earning him the moniker the 'Man of Many Counties'. Having began his career as a batsman,it was not until later in his career that he developed into a formidable roundarm slow bowler,becoming the greatest slow bowler of the 1870s,alongside Alfred Shaw. He was the first man to take 200 first-class wickets in a season,a feat he achieved in 1870. In his first-class,he would take nearly 1,700 wickets from 286 matches,at an impressive bowling average of 14.43. Southerton toured toured Australia in 1876–77 with James Lillywhite's side,playing in the first-ever Test match to be played,at the Melbourne Cricket Ground against Australia. At 49 years and 119 days old when he made his Test debut,he remains as of 2024 the oldest Test debutant of all time;his Test career comprised the two Tests played on the 1876–77 tour,with Souterton taking 7 wickets.
Dwayne Romel Smith is a former Barbadian international cricketer who has represented the West Indies in all three formats of the game. An all-rounder,he is known as an aggressive and powerful right-handed batsman,bowls medium pace,and is also an athletic fielder. Smith was a part of the West Indies team that won the 2012 T20 World Cup.
James Cullum Tredwell is an English former international cricketer. A left-handed batsman and a right-arm off break bowler,he played his domestic cricket for Kent County Cricket Club and was appointed as County Captain for the 2013 season. He made his debut for Kent in the 2001 season,nine days before his first appearance for England Under-19s. He often fielded at slip. Tredwell was a member of the England team that won the 2010 ICC World Twenty20.
Timothy James Murtagh is a retired English-born Irish cricketer who played for Middlesex County Cricket Club.
Khizer Hayat is a Pakistani former cricketer and umpire. He played first-class cricket for ten years before taking up umpiring. He officiated in 34 Test matches and 55 One Day International matches.
Paul-Jan Bakker is a Dutch former international cricketer,who also played domestic cricket at first-class and List A level in England for Hampshire from 1986 to 1992,taking 269 wickets across both formats. He later played in the Netherlands inaugural One Day International match in the 1996 World Cup,before retiring shortly after the tournament. In 2007,he briefly succeeded Peter Cantrell as Netherlands coach.
Kemar Andre Jamal Roach is a Barbadian international cricketer who plays for the West Indies in Test and One Day Internationals. As a 5-foot-8-inch (1.73 m) pacer,Roach initially reached speeds of over 90 mph on regular occasions. After some time he adapted his bowling style,due to injuries and diminshed pace,to encourage augmented swing and movement of the ball. He triumphantly claimed the BBL02 title with the Brisbane Heat and was an essential part of the Surrey side which eventually won the 2022 County Championship title. During 2012 he became the first West Indies bowler to take 10 wickets in a Test since 2005. Roach has since picked up over 250 wickets in Tests and over 100 ODI wickets for the Windies. He has also featured for Barbados,Deccan Chargers,Worcestershire along with CPL teams Antigua Hawksbills,St Lucia Zouks and Jamaica Tallawahs in his cricketing career. Roach made history for the West Indies as he was the first West Indian bowler to take a hat-trick in a Cricket World Cup,which he did against the Netherlands during the 2011 tournament.
William Lloyd Budd was an English first-class cricketer and international cricket umpire. Budd initially played first-class cricket for Hampshire County Cricket Club between 1934 and 1938,and briefly following the Second World War. He later became an umpire,standing in four Test matches and twelve One Day Internationals from 1976 to 1979.
Kraigg Clairmonte Brathwaite is a Barbadian cricketer who captains the West Indies in Test cricket. He is a right-handed batsman and occasionally bowls off breaks. On 6 November 2011,he became only the second West Indian to score two Test fifties before his 19th birthday when he made 63 (212) against India in Delhi. He has also effectively stood as stand-in-captain in place of Jason Holder in seven test matches before becoming the permanent captain of the test team taking over from Holder. He idolises Shivnarine Chanderpaul and his batting style.
Elvis Leroy Reifer was a Barbadian cricketer.
Andrew Joseph Murtagh is an Irish former first-class cricketer. He played county cricket for Hampshire between 1973 and 1977,before becoming a schoolteacher. After retiring from teaching,he became a cricket historian and biographer.
Lawrence 'Larry' Roosevelt Worrell is a Barbadian-born English former first-class cricketer.
The Australian cricket team toured the West Indies in the 1977–78 season to play a five-match Test series against the West Indies. The tour also encompassed a pair of One Day Internationals,plus six tour matches against the West Indies' first class sides.
Christopher Mark Brown,commonly known as Chris Brown,is an Cook Islander-New Zealand cricket umpire and former cricketer who previously played representative cricket for Auckland at New Zealand domestic level. Born in Rarotonga,Brown played his early cricket for Auckland under-age teams,and went on to represent the New Zealand national under-19s in several matches as a right-arm fast bowler. Making his first-class debut during the 1993–94 season of the Shell Trophy,he took ten wickets in his debut match,and represented the New Zealand Cricket Academy twice later in the season.
Jason Omar Holder is a Barbadian cricketer and the former captain of the West Indies cricket team. He is a right arm medium-fast bowling all-rounder who features in all three cricketing formats. In January 2019,he was ranked as the number one all rounder in the world according to the official ICC Test rankings. In August 2019,Cricket West Indies named him as the Test Player of the Year and on 14 April 2021,Holder was named one of Wisden's Five Cricketers of the Year. Holder is the first West Indian male cricketer to take a hat-trick in a T20I,and the fifth,to achieve both 2000 runs and 100 wickets in one day internationals. He is also the second West Indian,after Sir Garfield Sobers,to attain both 2500 runs and 150 wickets in test match cricket. Holder was a member of the West Indies team that won the 2016 T20 World Cup.
Miguel Lamar Cummins is a Barbadian cricketer who has played in 14 Test matches and 11 One Day Internationals (ODI) for the West Indies.
Shai Diego Hope is a Barbadian cricketer,who plays as a wicketkeeper/batsman for the West Indies cricket team. He is also the current ODI captain of the Windies. In June 2018,he was named the Men's Cricketer of the Year,Test Cricketer of the Year and the ODI Cricketer of the Year at the annual Cricket West Indies' Awards. The following year,he was named the CWI ODI Player of the Year. He is generally regarded as one of the best ODI batsmen in the contemporary cricketing world. Hope has also twice been named,for both 2020 and 2022,in the ICC ODI Team of the Year.
Shane Omari Dowrich is a former Barbadian international cricketer who plays as a wicket-keeper. He has featured for the West Indies,Barbados along with CPL teams St Kitts and Nevis Patriots and Barbados Tridents in his cricketing career. Dowrich is also the current captain of the Barbados' first class side.
Roston Lamar Chase is a Barbadian cricketer who plays for the West Indies and Barbados. An all-rounder,he is a right-handed batsman and a right-arm off spin bowler. In July 2017,he was named Cricketer of the Year and Test Cricketer of the Year by the West Indies Players' Association.
