Pearson Best
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| Born | 20 December 1963 Barbados | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Bowling | Right arm medium-slow | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Pearson Best (born 20 December 1963) is a former Cayman Islands cricketer.[1] An all-rounder, he is a right-handed batsman and right-arm slow-medium bowler,[2] he played for the Cayman Islands national cricket team from 2000 to 2012.[3] His matches include two first-class[4] and four List A matches.[5]
Personal life[edit]
Best was born in Barbados and moved to the Caymans around 1998 to work for the Royal Cayman Islands Police Service. In 2005 he was stationed on Cayman Brac.[6]
Playing career[edit]
Best made his debut for the Cayman Islands in the Red Stripe Bowl, a domestic competition in the West Indies, in October 2000. He played four matches in the tournament, making up his only four List A matches to date.[5] He played in the ICC Americas Championship in 2002 and 2004 and in the repêchage tournament for the 2005 ICC Trophy in 2005.[7] In the latter tournament, he won man of the match awards for his performances against Kuwait and Zambia,[8] finishing the tournament with the best batting average (76.33) and the second highest score of 99 not out.[9]
In August 2005 he played his, to date, only first-class matches, 2005 ICC Intercontinental Cup matches against Bermuda and Canada.[4] In 2006, he played for the Cayman Islands in the inaugural Stanford 20/20 tournament. He top scored with 74 in the preliminary round against the Bahamas, winning $25,000 for the man of the match award,[10] but only scored three in the first round proper against Trinidad & Tobago as the Caymans were knocked out of the tournament.[11] Only three players made a higher individual score in the tournament.[12]
Later in 2006, he again played in the Americas Championship.[7] He was the second highest scorer in the tournament,[13] winning the man of the match award for his top score of 116 against Argentina.[14] He most recently represented the Cayman Islands at Division Three of the World Cricket League in Darwin, Australia in May/June 2007.[15]
References[edit]
- ^ Cricket Archive profile
- ^ Cricinfo profile
- ^ Teams played for by Pearson Best at CricketArchive
- ^ a b First-class matches played by Pearson Best at Cricket Archive
- ^ a b List A matches played by Pearson Best at Cricket Archive
- ^ "Man on fire". Cayman Compass. 27 May 2005. Retrieved 22 July 2023.
- ^ a b Other matches played by Pearson Best at Cricket Archive
- ^ Matches in which Pearson Best won an award at Cricket Archive
- ^ Batting and Fielding in ICC World Cup Qualifying Series 2005 (Ordered by Average) at Cricket Archive
- ^ Match report of Bahamas v Cayman Islands at the tournament's official site
- ^ Scorecard of Cayman Islands v Trinidad & Tobago, 25 July 2006 at Cricket Archive
- ^ Batting and Fielding in Stanford Twenty20 2006 (Ordered by Average) at Cricket Archive
- ^ Top run scorers in 2006 ICC Americas Championship Division One at CricketEurope
- ^ Scorecard of Argentina v Cayman Islands, 26 August 2006 at CricketEurope
- ^ Squads for 2007 ICC World Cricket League Division Three at CricketEurope