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Factfile on WI fast bowler Courtney Walsh |
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March 30, 2000
1962: Born October 30, Kingston , Jamaica.
1979: Takes record 10-43 in Jamaican school cricket.
1982: Makes debut for Jamaica.
1984: English county debut with Leicestershire.
1984: Makes Test debut, against Australia in first Test at Perth.
1987: One of Wisden's five Cricketers of the year for 1986.
1988: Takes hat-trick in first Test of 1988-89 series against Australia in Brisbane with last ball of first innings and first two balls of his first spell in second innings.
1994: Appointed West Indies captain for tours of India and New Zealand after Richie Richardson ordered to rest because of "acute fatigue syndrome."
1995: Captures his Test career best 7-37 in second Test against New Zealand in Wellington. 1995: Reaches 300 Test wickets landmark during sixth and final Test against England at the Oval.
1996: Named West Indies captain after Richie Richardson resigns at the end of World Cup on Indian sub-continent.
1998: Sacked as West Indies captain after they lose all three Tests on tour of Pakistan in late 1997.
1998: Becomes West Indies leading wicket-taker in Tests when he passes Malcolm Marshall's mark of 376 wickets in first Test against South Africa in Johannesburg.
1999: Becomes only third bowler in Test Crick history after Kapil Dev (434) and Sir Richard Hedlee (431) to take 400 wickets, in first Test against Australia at Port-of-Spain.
2000: Breaks Kapil Dev's world record for most wickets in Tests during second Test against Zimbabwe.
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