Pearson Best

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Pearson Best
Personal information
Born (1963-12-20) 20 December 1963 (age 60)
Barbados
BattingRight-handed
BowlingRight arm medium-slow
International information
National side
Career statistics
Competition First-class List A
Matches24
Runs scored12166
Batting average 30.2516.50
100s/50s0/10/0
Top score5334
Balls bowled810
Wickets 0–
Bowling average ––
5 wickets in innings ––
10 wickets in match––
Best bowling––
Catches/stumpings 2/–1/–
Source: CricketArchive, 16 November 2022

Pearson Best (born 20 December 1963) is a former Cayman Islands cricketer. [1] An all-rounder, he is a right-handed batsman and right-arm slow-medium bowler, [2] he played for the Cayman Islands national cricket team from 2000 to 2012. [3] His matches include two first-class [4] and four List A matches. [5]

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Personal life

Best was born in Barbados and moved to the Caymans around 1998 to work for the Royal Cayman Islands Police Service. In 2005 he was stationed on Cayman Brac. [6]

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. [7] In the latter tournament, he won man of the match awards for his performances against Kuwait and Zambia, [8] finishing the tournament with the best batting average (76.33) and the second highest score of 99 not out. [9]

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, [10] but only scored three in the first round proper against Trinidad & Tobago as the Caymans were knocked out of the tournament. [11] Only three players made a higher individual score in the tournament. [12]

Later in 2006, he again played in the Americas Championship. [7] He was the second highest scorer in the tournament, [13] winning the man of the match award for his top score of 116 against Argentina. [14] He most recently represented the Cayman Islands at Division Three of the World Cricket League in Darwin, Australia in May/June 2007. [15]

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References

  1. ↑ Cricket Archive profile
  2. ↑ Cricinfo profile
  3. ↑ Teams played for by Pearson Best at CricketArchive
  4. 1 2 First-class matches played by Pearson Best at Cricket Archive
  5. 1 2 List A matches played by Pearson Best at Cricket Archive
  6. ↑ "Man on fire". Cayman Compass. 27 May 2005. Retrieved 22 July 2023.
  7. 1 2 Other matches played by Pearson Best at Cricket Archive
  8. ↑ Matches in which Pearson Best won an award at Cricket Archive
  9. ↑ Batting and Fielding in ICC World Cup Qualifying Series 2005 (Ordered by Average) at Cricket Archive
  10. ↑ Match report of Bahamas v Cayman Islands at the tournament's official site
  11. ↑ Scorecard of Cayman Islands v Trinidad & Tobago, 25 July 2006 at Cricket Archive
  12. ↑ Batting and Fielding in Stanford Twenty20 2006 (Ordered by Average) at Cricket Archive
  13. ↑ Top run scorers in 2006 ICC Americas Championship Division One at CricketEurope
  14. ↑ Scorecard of Argentina v Cayman Islands, 26 August 2006 at CricketEurope
  15. ↑ Squads for 2007 ICC World Cricket League Division Three at CricketEurope
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