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Full name Vasbert Conniel Drakes
Born August 5, 1969, Springhead, St Andrew, Barbados
Current age 39 years 32 days
Major teams Scotland,West Indies,Barbados,Border,Leicestershire,Nottinghamshire,Sussex,Warwickshire
Batting style Right-hand bat
Bowling style Right-arm fast
Other Coach
Batting and fielding averages
Mat
Inns
NO
Runs
HS
Ave
BF
SR
100
50
4s
6s
Ct
St
Tests
12
20
2
386
67
21.44
819
47.13
0
1
54
7
2
0
ODIs
34
17
5
94
25
7.83
174
54.02
0
0
6
0
5
0
First-class
164
257
31
4774
180*
21.12
4
17
53
0
List A
217
149
33
1787
104
15.40
1
1
36
0
Bowling averages
Mat
Inns
Balls
Runs
Wkts
BBI
BBM
Ave
Econ
SR
4w
5w
10
Tests
12
21
2617
1362
33
5/93
7/80
41.27
3.12
79.3
2
1
0
ODIs
34
34
1640
1293
51
5/33
5/33
25.35
4.73
32.1
3
2
0
First-class
164
31529
16066
614
8/59
26.16
3.05
51.3
28
3
List A
217
10447
7283
279
5/19
5/19
26.10
4.18
37.4
8
4
0
Career statistics
Test debut
Bangladesh v West Indies at Dhaka, Dec 8-10, 2002 scorecard
Last Test
South Africa v West Indies at Centurion, Jan 16-20, 2004 scorecard
Test statistics
ODI debut
West Indies v Australia at Bridgetown, Mar 8, 1995 scorecard
Last ODI
South Africa v West Indies at Cape Town, Jan 25, 2004 scorecard
ODI statistics
First-class span
1991/92 - 2003/04
List A span
1991/92 - 2005
Profile
When Vasbert Drakes was selected for West Indies' Champions Trophy squad at 33 in September 2002, he was offered a belated chance to build the sort of international career that seemed to have been his for the taking a few years earlier. Capable of genuine pace off a short run-up, and a very handy hard-hitting batsman with four first-class centuries to his name, Drakes's West Indies career had been limited to five one-day matches against Australia in 1994-95, and a place on the subsequent tour of England. But thereafter, Drakes chose to earn his living by playing county cricket in the English summer, and for Border in South Africa in the winter, which meant he was not eligible for national selection. It was only when the selectors realised how short-sighted this policy was that Drakes returned
to the fold. He celebrated with the wicket of Jacques Kallis in his first international over for more than seven years, and went on to enjoy personal success in an anticlimatic World Cup campaign. The highlight of his career, however, came with the bat, when his unbeaten 27 steered West Indies to a world-record target of 418, against Australia in Antigua. In 2008 he took over as coach of the UAE. Andrew Miller
