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Full name Runako Shakur Morton
Born July 22, 1978, Nevis
Current age 29 years 300 days
Major teams West Indies, Leeward Islands, Nevis
Playing role Batsman
Batting style Right-hand bat
Bowling style Right-arm medium, Right-arm offbreak

Batting and fielding averages
	Mat	Inns	NO	Runs	HS	Ave	BF	SR	100	50	4s	6s	Ct
Tests	13	23	1	481	70*	21.86	980	49.08	0	3	65	5	17
ODIs	49	44	4	1330	110*	33.25	2017	65.93	2	9	110	13	17
T20Is	5	5	1	56	20	14.00	61	91.80	0	0	5	2	1
First-class	75	125	8	4402	201	37.62			10	27			88
List A	106	100	15	3307	126	38.90			5	22			44
Twenty20	8	8	1	102	36	14.57	104	98.07	0	0	8	3	1

Bowling averages
	Mat	Inns	Balls	Runs	Wkts	BBI	BBM	Ave	Econ	SR	4w	5w	10
Tests	13	5	66	50	0	-	-	-	4.54	-	0	0	0
ODIs	49	1	6	2	0	-	-	-	2.00	-	0	0	0
T20Is	5	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
First-class	75		467	289	8	3/17		36.12	3.71	58.3		0	0
List A	106		210	254	8	2/35	2/35	31.75	7.25	26.2	0	0	0
Twenty20	8	1	6	4	0	-	-	-	4.00	-	0	0	0

Career statistics
Test debut	Sri Lanka v West Indies at Colombo (SSC), Jul 13-16, 2005 scorecard
Last Test	South Africa v West Indies at Durban, Jan 10-12, 2008 scorecard
Test statistics
ODI debut	Pakistan v West Indies at Sharjah, Feb 15, 2002 scorecard
Last ODI	West Indies v Sri Lanka at Gros Islet, Apr 15, 2008 scorecard
ODI statistics
T20I debut	New Zealand v West Indies at Auckland, Feb 16, 2006 scorecard
Last T20I	South Africa v West Indies at Johannesburg, Jan 18, 2008 scorecard
T20I statistics
First-class debut	1996/97
Last First-class	Leeward Islands v Combined Campuses and Colleges at Charlestown, Mar 28-31, 2008 scorecard
List A debut	1997/98
Last List A	West Indies v Sri Lanka at Gros Islet, Apr 15, 2008 scorecard
Twenty20 debut	New Zealand v West Indies at Auckland, Feb 16, 2006 scorecard
Last Twenty20	Jamaica v Nevis at Coolidge, Feb 16, 2008 scorecard

Profile

Fiery on and off the pitch, Runako Morton's cricket career looked to be dead in the water when he was expelled from the West Indian Academy in July 2001, for a series of regulation breaches. He refused to be bowed, however, and continued to accumulate runs for Leeward Islands in the Busta Cup. In February 2002, his penance complete, he was called into an injury-plagued West Indian squad as a replacement for Marlon Samuels, and was tipped to become one of the few Test cricketers from tiny island of Nevis. But he threw away his opportunity when he pulled out of the ICC Champions Trophy in September 2002, after lying about the death of his grandmother. His career slipped further down the pan when he was arrested in January 2004, following a stabbing incident, but in May 2005, he was given a third chance at redemption when he was recalled to the one-day squad to face South Africa although he didn't get a game. He got his chance later that month against Pakistan at home, and was then picked for the 2005-06 tour to New Zealand, where he proved his worth with a fighting century - his maiden one-day hundred - in a losing cause. He followed it up with another ton, in the away series against Zimbabwe, but soon made it into the record books for his painstaking 31-ball duck in the final of the DLF Cup against Australia in Malaysia. It was the slowest ODI duck, beating Phil Simmons's earlier record that had consumed 23 balls. It certainly got his eye in, however, as Morton made an unbeaten 90 in his next meeting with the Australians, in the Champions Trophy. From that moment on, however, his form fell away, and he was omitted from the West Indian squad for the subsequent World Cup. He won a recall for the tour of England in 2007 and then beat up on Zimbabwe in a lopsided ODI series, but was left out of the Test side to take on Sri Lanka after a disappointing series in South Africa.
Andrew Miller May 2008

Apr 9, 2008

Runako Morton fires one in
© Brooks La Touche photography

Feb 9, 2008

Runako Morton goes for a big hit
© Stanford 20/20

Feb 9, 2008

Portrait of Runako Morton
© Stanford 20/20

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