joel garner Profile - ICC Profile, Age, Career Info & Stats.
joel garner is a cricketer(sportsman) from West Indies. His ICC profile, age, career info & stats are given below.
Full Name
Joel Garner
Born
December 16, 1952, Enterprise, Christ Church, Barbados
Age
70 years old
Nicknames
Big Bird
Batting Style
Right hand Bat
Bowling Style
Right arm Fast
Playing Role
Bowler
Height
6ft 8in
Education
Boy's Foundation School, Christchurch, Barbados
Batting Stats
Test | ODI | T20I | IPL | |
---|---|---|---|---|
Mat | 58 | 98 | - | - |
Inn | 68 | 41 | - | - |
Runs | 672 | 239 | - | - |
Avg | 12.44 | 9.19 | - | - |
SR | 58.54 | 66.39 | - | - |
HS | 60 | 37 | - | - |
NO | 14 | 15 | - | - |
100s | 0 | 0 | - | - |
50s | 1 | 0 | - | - |
4s | 55 | 6 | - | - |
6s | 15 | 4 | - | - |
Bowling Stats
Test | ODI | T20I | IPL | |
---|---|---|---|---|
Mat | 58 | 98 | - | - |
Inn | 111 | 98 | - | - |
Balls | 13169 | 5330 | - | - |
Runs | 5433 | 2752 | - | - |
Wkt | 259 | 146 | - | - |
BBI | 56 / 6 | 31 / 5 | - | - |
BBM | 108 / 9 | 31 / 5 | - | - |
Eco | 2.48 | 3.1 | - | - |
Avg | 20.98 | 18.85 | - | - |
5W | 7 | 3 | - | - |
10W | 0 | 0 | - | - |
Teams he has played for:
- West Indies
- Barbados
- Somerset
- South Australia
Heres what CricBuzz says about him.
Garner played 58 Tests between 1977 and 87, and picked up 259 wickets at an average of just over 20. The fact that he took so many wickets while competing with his peers in the team speaks volumes about his ability. In ODIs, his toe-crushers made him un-hittable in the death overs. He picked up 146 wickets from 98 games, and is the only player with more than 100 wickets to average less than 20. His 5 for 29 in the World Cup final in 1979 against England, the best ever figures in a World Cup final, also included a spell of 5 for 4 which blasted the hosts out of the contest.
Garner retired in 1987, and another bowler with similar characteristics - Curtly Ambrose - took over. In 2010, Garner was named the interim manager of the West Indies team to tour Sri Lanka.
By Karthik Lakshmanan
Heres what ESPNcricinfo says about him.
Batters would say that the overriding feeling when first confronted by Joel "Big Bird" Garner was that he would trample on them, such was the foreshortening effect of his 6ft 8 inches. He possessed lively pace, which, when the mood took him, could be cranked up to the brisk side of rapid, and the ball would rear alarmingly from barely short of a length. He also had 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 20.97.
Garner made his Test debut against Pakistan at home early in 1977, taking 25 wickets in five Tests. He then took stacks of wickets against all comers, home and away. Against Australia in March 1984, he took 9 for 142 in a hard-fought draw in Georgetown when West Indies were missing Michael Holding and Malcolm Marshall from the attack. He followed that up with 6 for 60 in the first innings of the next match, in Port-of-Spain. Nine more came in a career-best effort three months later at Edgbaston during the blackwash series. And against England again, in Port-of-Spain in his second to last Test series, he ran rampant with seven wickets in a crushing win.
If Garner's 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. In a period when the overall bowling average was 29.6 and the economy was four an over, Garner averaged fewer than 19 runs per wicket and conceded just over three runs an over. 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.