Desmond Haynes

Desmond Haynes
Personal information
Full name
Desmond Leo Haynes
Born (1956-02-15) 15 February 1956 (age 68)
Saint James, Barbados
BattingRight-handed
BowlingRight arm leg break
Right-arm medium
International information
National side
Test debut (cap 163)3 March 1978 v Australia
Last Test13 April 1994 v England
ODI debut (cap 25)22 February 1978 v Australia
Last ODI5 March 1994 v England
Domestic team information
YearsTeam
1976–1995Barbados
1983Scotland
1989–1994Middlesex
1994–1997Western Province
Career statistics
Competition Test ODI FC LA
Matches 116 238 376 419
Runs scored 7,487 8,648 26,030 15,651
Batting average 42.29 41.27 45.90 42.07
100s/50s 18/39 17/57 61/138 28/110
Top score 184 152* 255* 152*
Balls bowled 18 30 536 780
Wickets 1 0 8 9
Bowling average 8.00 34.87 65.77
5 wickets in innings 0 0 0
10 wickets in match 0 0 0
Best bowling 1/2 1/2 1/9
Catches/stumpings 65/– 59/– 202/1 117/–
Medal record
Men's Cricket
Representing  West Indies
ICC Cricket World Cup
Winner 1979 England
Runner-up 1983 England and Wales
Source: Cricinfo, 4 February 2010

Desmond Leo Haynes (born 15 February 1956) is a former Barbadian cricketer and cricket coach who played for the West Indies cricket team between 1978 and 1994. He was a member of the squads which won the 1979 Cricket World Cup as well as finishing as runners-up at the 1983 Cricket World Cup.

Haynes favoured a more measured approach to batting and scored 7,487 runs in 116 Test matches at an average of 42.29, his highest Test innings of 184 coming against England in 1980. He is one of the few Test batsman to have been dismissed handled the ball, falling in this fashion against India on 24 November 1983. He is also one of the few players to have scored a century on an ODI debut.

He was rated by Trinidad and Tobago Guardian as "one of the greatest of all time",[1] while the BBC described him as "one of the greatest opening partnerships in history with fellow Barbadian Gordon Greenidge."[2] The cricket almanac Wisden noted his "combination of timing and barely evident power", and named him one of their Cricketers of the Year in 1991.[3] In June 2021, he was inducted into the ICC Cricket Hall of Fame as one of the special inductees to mark the inaugural edition of the ICC World Test Championship final.[4][5]

  1. ^ "WI top six please Desmond Haynes". Trinidad and Tobago Guardian. 3 November 2005. Retrieved 25 November 2011.
  2. ^ "Haynes enters India coaching race". BBC Sport. 3 November 2005. Retrieved 13 May 2005.
  3. ^ "Wisden – Cricketer of the year 1991 – Desmond Haynes". Wisden. ESPNcricinfo. Retrieved 6 August 2012.
  4. ^ "ICC Hall of Fame special inductions announced to mark the inaugural ICC World Test Championship Final". icc-cricket.com. Retrieved 13 June 2021.
  5. ^ "Andy Flower and Kumar Sangakkara among 10 players inducted into ICC Hall of Fame". ESPNcricinfo. Retrieved 13 June 2021.