Full Name Carlisle Alonza Best Born ( 1959-05-14 ) 14 May 1959 (age 64)
Birth Place Richmond Gap, Saint Michael, Barbados Role Batsman Name Carlisle Best Relations Tino Best (nephew)[1] | National team
West Indies
Batting style Right-handed Bowling style Right-arm off break
Right-arm medium pace |
Richie Richardson and Carlisle Best get Tested by Wasim Akram and Waqar Younis 1990
Competition | Tests | ODIs | FC | LA |
Matches | 8 | 24 | 90 | 79 |
Runs scored | 342 | 473 | 5,439 | 1,942 |
Batting average | 28.50 | 24.89 | 38.85 | 29.87 |
100s/50s | 1/1 | 1/2 | 13/24 | 2/12 |
Top score | 164 | 100 | 179 | 137* |
Balls bowled | 30 | 19 | 1,642 | 682 |
Wickets | 0 | 0 | 24 | 14 |
Bowling average | – | – | 32.16 | 40.78 |
5 wickets in innings | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
10 wickets in match | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Best bowling | 0/2 | 0/4 | 3/29 | 2/22 |
Catches/stumpings | 8/– | 5/– | 107/– | 21/– |
Carlisle Alonza Best (born 14 May 1959) played eight Tests and 24 One Day Internationals for the West Indies. He is the uncle of fast bowler Tino Best.
Best hooked his third ball in Test cricket for six off the bowling of Ian Botham at Kingston, Jamaica, in February 1986.
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