Desmond Haynes

Desmond Leo Haynes (* February 15, 1956 in Saint James, Barbados ) is a former cricketer from Barbados who played team for the team of West Indies Cricket and then also worked as a cricket coach. He was Wisden Cricketer of 1991 elected the year. Haynes and Gordon Greenidge made ​​in the 80s one of the most dominant Test partnerships in the West Indies Cricket team. They arrived together 16 times Century Partnerships and four times they exceeded even the 200 - mark it. Together they made a total of 6482 runs in Test partnerships, the second highest value for a batting partnership in the history of Test cricket. Haynes preferred a more calculated access to batting. In 116 tests, it reached a total of 7487 runs at an average of 42.29. His best test innings were 184 runs ( from 395 balls ) against England in 1984. He is one of very few Test batsman who retired by the rare rare cases also generally handled the ball. This happened in the match against India on 24 November 1983.

In his first ODI in Antigua, he scored with a score of 148 a Century against Australia. Haynes held a series of ODI records, such as " Most Runs" and " Most Centuries". He was part of the West Indian team that won the 1979 Cricket World Cup. Also at the World Cup in 1983, 1987 and 1992, he was on the team. In his 25 World Cup matches, Haynes scored 854 runs (including three fifties and a Century ).

After the end of his active Karrier 1997 Haynes worked among others as Chairman of Selectors of the Barbados Cricket Association, as President of the Carlton Cricket Club and as secretary of the West Indies Players Association. He is currently the Director of the West Indies Cricket Board.

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• Cricketer ( Barbados)
• Cricketer (West Indies )
• Cricket in Scotland
• Barbadians
• Born in 1956
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