Cayman Net News: Sandie Richards

SPORTS FACTS

The Hon. Courtney Walsh, O.J.

Wednesday, October 19, 2005

He is the former holder of the World Record for wickets taken in Test cricket: five hundred and nineteen (519) and he is the first man to have taken more than five hundred (500) Test wickets. He has played in 132 Test matches, more than any other West Indian player. He was the first fast bowler to captain the West Indies and he also captained Jamaica and Gloucestershire County in England. He is one of only three West Indian bowlers to take a �hat-trick� in Test cricket (three wickets in three consecutive balls).

He once took five for one run in a limited over international against Sri Lanka and he has taken more wickets in that type of game than any other West Indian bowler. He once took all ten wickets in an innings in a schoolboy cricket match. As a batsman, he has been not out more times and made more zeros than any other Test cricketer.

He won the Carrera Sports Foundation Sportsman of the Year Award three times in a row.

Extracted from Jamaican Athletes - Courage and Endurance

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