Personal Information

Full Name Joel Garner
Born December 16, 1952 Enterprise, Christ Church
Age 71 Years, 9 Months, 23 Days
National Side West Indies
Batting Style Right Handed
Bowling Right-arm fast
Sport Cricket

Ranking

Test ODI T20
Batting - - -
Bowling - - -

Man of the Match

Test ODI T20 World Cup CL
0 5 - 0 -

Career Information

Teams Played West Indies
Career Span

Joel Garner Overall Stats

Batting & Fielding Performance

M I N/O R HS 100s 50s 4s 6s AVG S/R CT ST Ducks R/O
Test
58 68 14 672 60 v AUS 0 1 55 15 12.44 - 42 0
ODI
98 41 15 239 37 v IND 0 0 6 4 9.19 66.38 30 0
World Cup
8 5 3 52 37 v IND 0 0 0 1 26.00 65.82 4 0

Bowling Performance

I O M R W Best 3s 5s AVG E/R S/R Mtc
Test
111 2194.5 576 5433 259 6/56 v NZ 19 7 20.97 2.47 50.84
ODI
98 888.2 141 2752 146 5/31 v AUS 17 3 18.84 3.09 36.50
World Cup
8 90 12 289 13 5/38 v ENG 0 1 22.23 3.21 41.53

Joel Garner Profile

Standing at 6 ft 8 in, and delivering yorkers from a height of more than ten feet meant that the batsmen did not have too much respite playing ‘Big Bird’ Joel Garner. With pacemen like Holding, Marshall and Croft at the other end, the opposition had an unenviable task of doing what they would have been expected to do normally; scoring! Garner helped West Indies a world record of not having lost a series – ODIs or Tests – for fifteen years.

If Joel Garner’s 259 Test wickets came at an average of less than 21, then his statistics are worth looking at in the ODI variety. Not only was his economy rate only 3 per over, but his average was a shockingly low 18.84. This included his best bowling analysis of 5/39 that he achieved in the 1979 World Cup final against England, blasting them out from 183/2 to 194 all out. As an overseas player alongside Viv Richards, he along with Richards and Botham ensured a very successful couple of seasons for Somerset.

Surprisingly, Joel Garner’s average was a shoddy 40 plus in Tests and 32 in ODIs against India, traditionally not a team that plays top quality pace too well.