Tino Best
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| Personal information | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Tino la Bertram Best | |||
| Born | 26 August 1981 Saint Michael, Barbados |
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| Height | 5 ft 8 in (1.73 m) | |||
| Batting style | Right-handed | |||
| Bowling style | Right arm fast | |||
| International information | ||||
| National side | West Indies | |||
| Test debut (cap 251) | 1 May 2003 v Australia | |||
| Last Test | 17 July 2009 v Bangladesh | |||
| ODI debut (cap 123) | 15 May 2004 v Bangladesh | |||
| Last ODI | 23 September 2009 v Pakistan | |||
| Domestic team information | ||||
| Years | Team | |||
| 2010–present | Yorkshire | |||
| 2001–present | Barbados | |||
| Career statistics | ||||
| Competition | Test | ODI | FC | LA |
| Matches | 14 | 12 | 76 | 42 |
| Runs scored | 196 | 52 | 1,041 | 136 |
| Batting average | 9.80 | 10.40 | 12.69 | 11.33 |
| 100s/50s | 0/0 | 0/0 | 0/1 | 0/0 |
| Top score | 27 | 24 | 51 | 24 |
| Balls bowled | 2,187 | 545 | 10,209 | 1,735 |
| Wickets | 28 | 13 | 229 | 51 |
| Bowling average | 48.67 | 36.69 | 27.48 | 28.90 |
| 5 wickets in innings | 0 | 0 | 10 | 0 |
| 10 wickets in match | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
| Best bowling | 4/46 | 4/35 | 7/33 | 4/35 |
| Catches/stumpings | 1/– | 3/– | 19/– | 12/– |
| Source: CricketArchive, 26 May 2010 | ||||
Tino la Bertram Best (born 26 August 1981) is a West Indian cricketer.
Short in stature, Tino Best is a fast and aggressive bowler with a bowling average of 48.67 in Test cricket.
He made six appearances for a small cricket club in Shropshire (Madeley Salop Cricket Club) where his express pace was extremely successful. His stay was cut short by his call up to West Indies A for their tour of England in the summer of 2002.
In the West Indies 2004 tour of England, Best played in the Lord's Test and was stumped off Ashley Giles' bowling after some banter from Andrew Flintoff wound him up sufficiently to try to slog the ball into the windows at Lord's.
In the Second Test against Pakistan in 2005, after a wicketless first innings - where he had Kamran Akmal caught off a no ball - and a second innings spell of 5-0-30-0, Best took four wickets in 11 balls, as Pakistan faltered from 223 for 4 to 309 all out. However, it was not enough to give West Indies the win.
Best was dropped from the Test side after the July 2005 tour of Sri Lanka, with his only ODI appearance since that tour being a May 2006 match against Zimbabwe.
In 2007, Best agreed to play for a small village side playing in the T. Rippon Mid Essex Cricket Premier League called High Roding. However at an EGM called by fellow club Springfield it was voted that Best could not play in the league. The official ruling was that "no player that has played first class cricket in the previous 24 months can play in the league."1
Tino appeared in the cricket movie Hit for Six playing a Barbados cricket player.
Despite successful performances for Barbados in domestic cricket he has not been part of the West Indies side since 2005 and, in February 2008, signed with the rebel Indian Cricket League for three years, putting his future international career in doubt. Tino played Twenty20 cricket for Mumbai Champs during his spell at ICL, he also played Twenty20 that season for Barbados.
In April 2010, Yorkshire County Cricket Club signed Best, who said "Signing for Yorkshire starts a new chapter in my career, I think I can take some wickets...but I am a little scared of the cold weather". Tim Bresnan has indicated that Tino is settling into County cricket life well, "He (Tino) already feels like part of the furniture, heck, he can almost eat as many yorkshire puddings as me!". Best was dismissed by Yorkshire in July 2010.
