West Indian cricketer
Wayne Wendell Daniel
(born 16 January 1956) is a former
cricketer
, who played as a right arm fast bowler. Daniel featured for the
West Indies
,
Middlesex
,
Barbados
and
Western Australia
in his cricketing career. He was the first person to hit a six and take a wicket on the last ball of his test career. He was a part of the West Indian squad which finished as
runners-up
at the
1983 Cricket World Cup
.
Cricket career
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Born in
St Phillip
,
Barbados
, Daniel picked up cricket at a young age. Evolving into a hostile and muscular fast bowler, Daniel first toured England with the West Indies schoolboys team in 1974 and
Middlesex
's Second XI in 1975. After such he made his
first-class
debut for
Barbados
in 1975/76. Daniel, in partnership with fellow fast bowlers
Michael Holding
and
Andy Roberts
, contributed greatly to the defeat of
England
in
1976
.
[1]
Nicknamed "Diamond" or "Black Diamond",
[2]
in 1977, Daniel accepted an offer to play in
World Series Cricket
, which kept him out of Test cricket for two years. Although Holding and Roberts resumed their Test careers after World Series Cricket, Daniel was less fortunate, as
Malcolm Marshall
,
Colin Croft
,
Joel Garner
and later
Courtney Walsh
came to the fore in his place. Daniel found himself left out of the national team and forced to carve out a successful
first-class
career with
Middlesex
between 1977 and 1988, gaining his county cap in 1977 and awarded a benefit in 1985.
[2]
[3]
He took 867 wickets at an average of just 22.47 with a best of 9 for 61 against
Glamorgan
in 1982.
[4]
He also took another 362 wickets at an average of 18.16 in 241
one day games
, including a then English domestic one day bowling record of seven wickets for twelve runs, for Middlesex against
Minor Counties
East at Ipswich.
[5]
He helped Middlesex to win the
County Championship
outright in
1980
,
1982
and
1985
, and to share it with
Kent
in
1977
, and to win the
Gillette Cup
in
1977
and
1980
, the
Benson & Hedges Cup
in
1983
and
1986
, and the
1984 NatWest Trophy
.
[3]
[6]
Daniel also played for
Western Australia
in the
Sheffield Shield
1981?82 season and for his native Barbados between 1976 and 1985.
Style of play
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Daniel's run up was idiosyncratic but he bowled with a strong action, bending his back and then following through halfway down the pitch to deliver 'heavy' balls which hit the batsman's splice or ribs. His long run up also meant that during
John Player League
matches, which limited bowlers' run-ups, Daniel ran on the spot for a while to simulate his full run-up.
[7]
[2]
Later life
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When his playing days came to a close, Daniel became involved in coaching along with cricket commentary.
[8]
References
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- Notes
- Sources
- Sproat, I. (1988)
The Cricketers' Who's Who 1988
, Willow Books: London.
ISBN
0 00 218285 8
.
- Symons, J.
The Cricket Society News Bulletin
, July 2016, The Cricket Society: London.
External links
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