Tino Best

Personal information

Full name

Tino la Bertram Best

Born

26 August 1981 (age 35)
Saint Michael, Barbados

Nickname

Animal, Bobski

Height

5 ft 8 in (1.73 m)

Batting style

Right-handed

Bowling style

Right-arm fast

Role

Bowler

Relations

Carlisle Best (uncle)

International information

National side

West Indies (2003–2014)

Test debut (cap 251)

1 May 2003 v Australia

Last Test

19 December 2013 v New Zealand

ODI debut (cap 123)

15 May 2004 v Bangladesh

Last ODI

4 January 2014 v New Zealand

Domestic team information

Years

Team

2002–present

2010

2013–2014

2016–present

Career statistics

Competition	Test	ODI	FC	LA
Matches	25	26	121	68
Runs scored	401	76	1,593	195
Batting average	12.53	9.50	12.06	10.83
100s/50s	0/1	0/0	0/2	0/0
Top score	95	24	95	24
Balls bowled	3,716	1,300	15,609	2,902
Wickets	57	34	330	88
Bowling average	40.19	34.02	29.37	29.00
5 wickets in innings	2	0	13	1
10 wickets in match	0	n/a	2	n/a
Best bowling	6/40	4/35	7/33	5/24
Catches/stumpings	6/–	4/–	42/–	15/–

Source: CricketArchive, 26 May 2016

Tino la Bertram Best (born 26 August 1981) is a West Indian cricketer. Standing 5 feet 8 inches (1.73 m), Tino Best is a fast and aggressive right-arm bowler. Since 2002, he has played domestic cricket for his native Barbados, with a season at English club Yorkshire in 2010. Best made his Test debut in May 2003 and played his first One Day International a year later. A back strain incurred in May 2004 prevented Best from playing cricket until March the following year. In 2008 Best signed to play in the Indian Cricket League because he had not played international cricket since 2006. He returned to the side when the West Indies fielded a side weakened by contract disputes between leading players and the West Indies Cricket Board but was dropped shortly after. On his return to the Test side on 10 June 2012, he broke the record for highest score by a number 11 batsman, making 95 against England at Edgbaston. The 143-run partnership with Denesh Ramdin in the same match was also notable; it is the third-highest Test stand with one wicket remaining.

Tino Best made his debut in first-class cricket on 25 January 2002, playing for Barbados against Guyana in the Busta Cup. He opened the bowling with Ian Bradshaw and in the first innings took four wickets for 50 runs (4/50), and Barbados won the match by 162 runs. Best finished his debut season with 17 wickets from 5 matches at an average of 24.29 with a single five wicket haul.

At the time of his Test call up for the Test series against Australia, Best was Barbados' leading wicket-taker in the Carib Beer Cup for the 2002/03 season with 39 dismissals. Though Best was originally drafted in as cover for fast bowler Jermaine Lawson who had chicken pox, when Best made his debut in the third Test he opened the bowling with Lawson. The West Indies lost and Best bowled twenty overs without taking a wicket.

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