lawrence rowe Profile - ICC Profile, Age, Career Info & Stats.
lawrence rowe is a cricketer(sportsman) from West Indies. His ICC profile, age, career info & stats are given below.
Full Name
Lawrence George Rowe
Born
January 08, 1949, Whitfield Town, Kingston, Jamaica
Age
74 years old
Batting Style
Right hand Bat
Bowling Style
Left arm Fast medium
Playing Role
Top order Batter
Batting Stats
Test | ODI | T20I | IPL | |
---|---|---|---|---|
Mat | 30 | 11 | - | - |
Inn | 49 | 8 | - | - |
Runs | 2047 | 136 | - | - |
Avg | 43.55 | 17.0 | - | - |
SR | 71.42 | 55.74 | - | - |
HS | 302 | 60 | - | - |
NO | 2 | 0 | - | - |
100s | 7 | 0 | - | - |
50s | 7 | 1 | - | - |
4s | 210 | 11 | - | - |
6s | 6 | 0 | - | - |
Bowling Stats
Test | ODI | T20I | IPL | |
---|---|---|---|---|
Mat | 30 | 11 | - | - |
Inn | 5 | - | - | - |
Balls | 84 | - | - | - |
Runs | 44 | - | - | - |
Wkt | 0 | - | - | - |
BBI | 1 / 0 | - | - | - |
BBM | 1 / 0 | - | - | - |
Eco | 3.14 | - | - | - |
Avg | 0.0 | - | - | - |
5W | 0 | - | - | - |
10W | 0 | - | - | - |
Teams he has played for:
- West Indies
- Derbyshire
- Jamaica
Heres what CricBuzz says about him.
Rowe had to wait two more years before he could reach lofty heights. It was again on a pacy deck at Kingston, Jamaica, against England that Rowe took his game to an elevated plane. Rowe showcased tremendous footwork and balance to essay a century.
In the next Test at Bridgetown, Barbados, he tore apart the English attack with a triple ton. Cricket lovers still reminisce the hook shot that he cracked off Bob Willis during that innings. Bob Willis bowled a vicious bumper, Rowe got into position very quickly and amazingly it travelled 'head high,' all the way into the stands!
Now, that was the time when Michael Holding heaped praise on Rowe by calling him the best batsman he has seen. No wonder, cricket pundits started comparing him to the likes of Don Bradman and George Headley.
Rowe gained a contract with Derbyshire and sadly, his career too went on a downhill path. He was diagnosed with hay fever and was said to be allergic to grass. His eyes also started to fail him.
Intriguingly, when the opticians checked his eyesight, they found that his vision was perfect. However, he was diagnosed with pterygium ( benign growth of the conjunctiva). He underwent surgery, but with contact lenses he struggled to get his touch back. It was a pity to see a batsman, known for his hand-eye co-ordination, searching for the ball.
Rowe showed glimpses of his old form with a century at the Gabba, Brisbane in the 'unofficial World Championship' against Australia in 1975-76. In the World Series Cricket, he notched up a mavellous 175 against the Australians. But, that turned out to be his last great knock.
In 1980, he quit cricket and went on a Rebel tour to South Africa. So he became a pariah in his hometown of Kingston. He eventually settled down in Florida, USA. In June 2011, a stand was named after him. Unfortunately, a few months later, the Jamaican board took back the honour after he said that he didn't do anything wrong by going on a Rebel tour to South Africa.
By Bharath Ramaraj
Heres what ESPNcricinfo says about him.
This was a West Indian batsman for the West Indies. More than that, Lawrence Rowe was a hometown boy: at Sabina Park, four Tests brought him three centuries, including a unique double and single hundred on debut, and an average of 113.40. In the rest of the Caribbean he averaged 43, and less than 30 abroad. He was an enigmatic, elegant, composed right-hander, opening or high in the order. He thrived on sunshine, and the back-foot shots that were the staple on hard pitches and less comfortable on slower seaming surfaces. His hooking and pulling was instinctive and deadly. But his career was punctuated by problems with his eyesight, a variety of injuries and, perversely, an allergy to grass. If Lawrence sneezed, they said, put the opposition in.
He might not have been one of the supreme batsmen, but he did manage one of the great innings. Against England at Bridgetown in 1974 he made 302 out of 596 for 8, in a little over ten hours of unruffled technical excellence.
Mike Selvey