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Full name Joel Garner
Born December 16, 1952, Enterprise, Christ Church, Barbados
Current age 55 years 338 days
Major teams West Indies,Barbados,Somerset,South Australia
Nickname Big Bird
Batting style Right-hand bat
Bowling style Right-arm fast
Height
6 ft 8 in
Education Boy's Foundation School, Christchurch, Barbados
Batting and fielding averages
Mat
Inns
NO
Runs
HS
Ave
BF
SR
100
50
6s
Ct
St
Tests
58
68
14
672
60
12.44
0
1
15
42
0
ODIs
98
41
15
239
37
9.19
360
66.38
0
0
30
0
First-class
214
231
54
2964
104
16.74
1
8
129
0
List A
256
133
46
1023
59*
11.75
0
1
71
0
Bowling averages
Mat
Inns
Balls
Runs
Wkts
BBI
BBM
Ave
Econ
SR
4w
5w
10
Tests
58
111
13169
5433
259
6/56
9/108
20.97
2.47
50.8
18
7
0
ODIs
98
98
5330
2752
146
5/31
5/31
18.84
3.09
36.5
2
3
0
First-class
214
39829
16333
881
8/31
18.53
2.46
45.2
48
7
List A
256
13359
6598
397
6/29
6/29
16.61
2.96
33.6
13
10
0
Career statistics
Test debut
West Indies v Pakistan at Bridgetown, Feb 18-23, 1977 scorecard
Last Test
New Zealand v West Indies at Christchurch, Mar 12-15, 1987 scorecard
Test statistics
ODI debut
West Indies v Pakistan at Albion, Mar 16, 1977 scorecard
Last ODI
New Zealand v West Indies at Christchurch, Mar 28, 1987 scorecard
ODI statistics
First-class span
1975/76 - 1987/88
List A span
1976/77 - 1992
Profile
Batsmen would say that the overriding feeling when first confronted by the Big Bird was that he would trample on them such was the foreshortening effect of his 6ft 8 inches. Delivered from the clouds it seemed, and at a lively pace that when the mood took could be cranked up to the brisk side of rapid, the ball would rear alarmingly from barely short of a length. Allied to that was the most devastating toe crunching yorker the game had seen since that of Charlie Griffith. Of the top wicket-takers, few have a lower average than his parsimonious 20.98. If his value in Test cricket was as an integral part of the most formidable pace attacks ever - they spread the load so that he took five wickets in an innings on just seven occasions - then in one-day cricket, particularly in the overs at the end of an innings, when the unhittable yorker speared in relentlessly, he was priceless. At Lord's in 1979 he simply blew England's slim hopes away with 5 for 38, the best figures ever in a World Cup final. Mike Selvey
