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Winston Davis

Winston Davis
Personal information
Full name Winston Walter Davis
Born (1958-09-18) 18 September 1958 (age 58)
Sion Hill, Kingstown, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
Nickname Davo
Height 6 ft 2 in (1.88 m)
Batting style Right-handed
Bowling style Right-arm fast
Role Bowler
International information
National side
Test debut 28 April 1983 v India
Last Test 11 January 1988 v India
ODI debut 29 March 1983 v India
Last ODI 25 January 1988 v India
Domestic team information
Years Team
1979–1992 Windward Islands
1979–1981 Combined Islands
1982–1984 Glamorgan
1985–1986 Tasmania
1987–1990 Northamptonshire
1990–1991 Wellington
Career statistics
Competition Tests ODIs FC LA
Matches 15 35 181 140
Runs scored 202 28 2,346 429
Batting average 15.53 14.00 14.13 10.46
100s/50s 0/1 0/0 0/5 0/0
Top score 77 10 77 34
Balls bowled 2,773 1,923 33,051 7,095
Wickets 45 39 608 157
Bowling average 32.71 33.38 28.48 30.27
5 wickets in innings 0 1 28 2
10 wickets in match 0 0 7 0
Best bowling 4/19 7/51 7/52 7/51
Catches/stumpings 10/– 1/– 56/– 25/–
Source: Cricket Archive, 18 October 2010

Winston Walter Davis (born 18 September 1958) is a former West Indian cricketer.

Davis played his first representative match for West Indies Young Cricketers against their English counterparts at Port-of-Spain in August 1976, making an immediate impact by taking 4-35 in his first innings, including the wickets of future Test cricketers David Gower, Mike Gatting and Paul Downton. In 1978 he went to England for the return matches, but it was not until 1979/80 that he made his first-class debut, for Windward Islands against Leeward Islands at St John's.

Davis gradually established himself as a bowler, taking 5-42 against Trinidad and Tobago in the 1981/82 Shell Shield, and he was signed by Glamorgan for the 1982 English season to replace the injured Ezra Moseley. Despite sending down rather too many no balls at times, Davis finished the season with 42 first-class wickets and was retained for the following season. In the meantime he had made his Test and One Day International debuts for in the 1982/83 series against India, his first wicket in Test cricket being that of Mohinder Amarnath.

In 1983 Davis was selected for West Indies' World Cup squad, and when brought into the side for the second group match against Australia at Leeds, immediately hit the headlines by taking 7-51, at the time a world record return in ODIs. He was retained for the other four group matches, but took only one more wicket in total and was not selected for the semi-final or final - perhaps unsurprising when one considers that players of the calibre of Marshall, Garner, Holding and Roberts were all in West Indies' squad for the tournament.


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