"difficult situation, and in the third match, he scored his only half-century in Tests. He also took 20 first-class wickets for Leeward Islands. West Indies' next matches were in England. The Test series was drawn 2–2 and Ambrose was the team's leading wicket-taker with 28 (averaging 20.00); he also came top of the bowling averages. He had a particular impact on Graeme Hick, who was appearing in Test cricket for the first time, dismissing him six times in seven innings with short-pitched bowling. Accurate bowling was important in the series, played on a series of slow-paced pitches; according to Scyld"
"Courtney Walsh Courtney Andrew Walsh OJ (born 30 October 1962) is a former Jamaican cricketer who represented the West Indies from 1984 to 2001, captaining the West Indies in 22 Test matches. He is a fast bowler, and best known for a remarkable opening bowling partnership along with fellow West Indian Curtly Ambrose for several years. Walsh played 132 Tests and 205 ODIs for the West Indies and took 519 and 227 wickets respectively. He shared 421 Test wickets with Ambrose in 49 matches. He held the record of most Test wickets from 2000, after he broke the record of"
"players. Courtney Walsh Courtney Andrew Walsh OJ (born 30 October 1962) is a former Jamaican cricketer who represented the West Indies from 1984 to 2001, captaining the West Indies in 22 Test matches. He is a fast bowler, and best known for a remarkable opening bowling partnership along with fellow West Indian Curtly Ambrose for several years. Walsh played 132 Tests and 205 ODIs for the West Indies and took 519 and 227 wickets respectively. He shared 421 Test wickets with Ambrose in 49 matches. He held the record of most Test wickets from 2000, after he broke the record"
"live during Pakistan vs England on 14 July 2016. Curtly Ambrose also joined him during the ODI series. He has also made appearances as a guest commentator for the 2016–17 Australian Big Bash T20 Tournament including matches at the Gabba and WACA. Wife - Laura Children - Chloe (born 2012), Billy (born 2014) Andrew Symonds Andrew Symonds (born 9 June 1975) is a former Australian international cricketer, who played all three formats as a batting all-rounder. He was an important member of two-time World Cup winning squads. Symonds is a right-handed, middle order batsman and alternates between medium pace and"
"against Durham, which improved upon Hanif Mohammad's thirty-five-year-old record as the highest score in first-class cricket. The West Indian bowling attack was spearheaded by Curtly Ambrose and Courtney Walsh, the latter setting a then world record of 519 wickets. However, these two had both retired by 2001, and their successors failed to maintain the high standards that Ambrose and Walsh had set. Despite the emergence of some good batsmen like Shivnarine Chanderpaul and Ramnaresh Sarwan, Brian Lara remained the crucial figure of the side. After a 2–0 defeat by New Zealand in 1999–00, Lara was replaced as captain by Jimmy"
"the ground for Test and ODI games during 1985 and 1986, faring poorly. The decade ended with tours by Pakistan and India, mixed with matches from the now entitled Red Stripe Cup, the new name for the West Indian domestic first-class competition. Following a return by Pakistan in 1992, England toured the West Indies over the winter of 1993–94. The teams met March 25 at the Queen's Park Oval and England were reduced to 46 all-out by Curtly Ambrose. It remains the lowest total made in a Test match at the ground, and with 66 wickets Ambrose remains the most"
"Curtly Ambrose) and once in a One Day International. In 1989–90, Wells joined the rebel tour of South Africa. During the winter of 1994–95, Wells led England 'A' to a long and highly successful tour of the Indian Subcontinent. They convincingly won the three unofficial tests against their Indian counterparts. The three-match One-Day series was much closer, but still England 'A' emerged victorious (2–1). Wells produced his best in the 2nd 'Test' at the Eden Gardens, Calcutta. There, he scored 93 & 65. The Indian leg was followed by a short tour of Bangladesh in mid-February. England 'A' won the"
"defeat in the Ashes series in Australia was considered a real disappointment, and ultimately led to the dismissal of Team Manager Keith Fletcher. Long-serving former captains Graham Gooch and Mike Gatting retired from International cricket after the tour, having had disappointing campaigns. The West Indians' home defeat by the Australians was a more closely fought affair, with Brian Lara (308 runs at 44) Curtly Ambrose (20 wickets at 21.55) and Courtney Walsh (13 at 19.84) all performing strongly against a touring team shorn of the injured Craig McDermott, but with strong back-up in the form of Glenn McGrath and Paul"
"confirm the West Indies superiority. As a result the West Indies had won ten consecutive Tests against England, and were the second team after Australia to achieve multiple home whitewashes in five Test series. This tour saw the beginning of a bowling partnership between Courtney Walsh and Curtly Ambrose that would trouble batsmen across the world for the next 12 years. England, on the other hand, had entered the series with low expectations and confidence. This was reflected in their team selections, with 23 players being used during the series. England had four captains in Gatting, John Emburey, Chris Cowdrey"
"Indian innings, and with the Windies having recovered a good deal of confidence with their late-order tail-wagging having set England a more challenging target than they could have expected a couple of hours previously. Curtly Ambrose (6–24) was at his most devastating, removing Atherton with his first delivery and Smith not long afterwards: in between, Ramprakash was somewhat needlessly run out, putting England in dire straits. Only Stewart managed to get into double figures, and only he and Thorpe survived more than half an hour at the crease facing the menace of Walsh and Ambrose, and by the close on"
"hostile West Indies pace attack, only Lamb and Smith in the first innings and Gooch in the second offering much resistance. The side fell to a relatively facile defeat against a West Indies team whose own batsmen failed to dominate; they had no need. Curtly Ambrose secured his first man-of-the-match award for taking seven wickets at a cost of 98 runs - despite being hampered early on in the match, when a blocked drain resulted in the bowler's run-up area being waterlogged and in some places flooded with overflow rainwater, Ambrose being hapless bowler who was forced to bring the"
"as Curtly Ambrose, Courtney Walsh, Patrick Patterson, Desmond Haynes and Brian Lara. South Africa, under Wessels' leadership, controlled most of the match but fell for 148 chasing 201 for victory in the final innings. This was blamed on remarkable bowling from the West Indian pacemen, with one reporter commenting; 'They [Walsh and Ambrose] pitched everything on off stump and let a pitch stricken by multiple-personality disorder do the rest. Each perfect delivery was followed by another perfect delivery. It was as if Richie Richardson had found a loophole in the laws that allowed him to unleash the same unplayable bowler"
"managed a safe 22 runs from 59 balls in the 1st innings, before staying in for over two hours in the 2nd innings, hitting just 19 runs from 80 deliveries. Tim Ambrose Timothy Raymond Ambrose (born 1 December 1982) is an Australian born former English cricketer who played all three formats. He is a right-handed batsman and wicket-keeper. He commenced his domestic career with Sussex in 2000, although he now plays for Warwickshire. He has represented England but lost his place to Matt Prior in 2009. Ambrose has also represented the New South Wales U17's team. Ambrose is also renowned"
"runs at an average of 16.50, with a high score of 27. Stuart Ambrose Stuart Rigby Ambrose (born 11 January 1943) is a former English first-class cricketer. Ambrose was a left-handed batsman. He was born in Watford, Hertfordshire. Ambrose made his debut for Hertfordshire in the 1969 Minor Counties Championship against Cambridgeshire. Ambrose played Minor counties cricket for Hertfordshire from 1969 to 1981, which included 48 Minor Counties Championship matches. He made his List A debut against Durham in the 1974 Gillette Cup. He made 3 further List A appearances for the county, the last coming against Northamptonshire in the"
"each game was dismissed for a duck by West Indies international players – Curtly Ambrose and Franklyn Rose. Wallace also represented the U.S. in the 2000–01 Red Stripe Bowl, appearing against Jamaica and Canada. Against Jamaica, he was his team's leading run-scorer, making 44 runs (including two sixes) before being bowled by Laurie Williams. Wallace's final international appearances came in the 2001 ICC Trophy in Canada, which was the qualification tournament for the 2003 World Cup. He played in all nine of his team's matches, and finished with 195 runs, which was behind only Rohan Alexander and Faoud Bacchus among"
"Cameron Cuffy Cameron Eustace Cuffy (born February 8, 1970) is a former West Indian cricketer, who, due to his height (6-foot 8 inches) was often likened to his predecessors in the West Indies side, Joel Garner and Curtly Ambrose. He made his Test debut against India in 1994. He dismissed Sachin Tendulkar three times in his Test career. He was in and out of both the Test and one-day teams in the 1990s and after 2000, his international career was over. As a batsman, he was a tailender, averaging 4.14 in Test cricket. Cuffy has the distinction of winning a"
"Stuart Ambrose Stuart Rigby Ambrose (born 11 January 1943) is a former English first-class cricketer. Ambrose was a left-handed batsman. He was born in Watford, Hertfordshire. Ambrose made his debut for Hertfordshire in the 1969 Minor Counties Championship against Cambridgeshire. Ambrose played Minor counties cricket for Hertfordshire from 1969 to 1981, which included 48 Minor Counties Championship matches. He made his List A debut against Durham in the 1974 Gillette Cup. He made 3 further List A appearances for the county, the last coming against Northamptonshire in the 1976 Gillette Cup. In his 4 List A matches, he scored 66"
"Tim Ambrose Timothy Raymond Ambrose (born 1 December 1982) is an Australian born former English cricketer who played all three formats. He is a right-handed batsman and wicket-keeper. He commenced his domestic career with Sussex in 2000, although he now plays for Warwickshire. He has represented England but lost his place to Matt Prior in 2009. Ambrose has also represented the New South Wales U17's team. Ambrose is also renowned and criticised for how far back he stands behind the wicket. His first notable cricketing performance was in the Second XI Championship in 2000, when he played two games in"
"James Kirtley Robert James Kirtley is a former English Test cricketer, who also played 11 One Day Internationals and single Twenty20 International in 2007 World Twenty20 competition. He was born on 10 January 1975 in Eastbourne in the county of Sussex. He is a right arm fast to medium bowler and a right hand batsman. After prep school at St.Andrews School, Eastbourne, he was educated at Clifton College. Kirtley is perhaps best known for taking a spectacular catch in a One Day International against India at Lord's. Simon Hughes rated it as the fifth greatest catch of all time. His"
"Test wicket. Having retired from cricket, Ambrose has concentrated on music, playing with several bands. He played bass guitar with the reggae band Big Bad Dread and the Baldhead; one fellow band member was his former team-mate Richie Richardson. Ambrose was appointed a Knight Commander of the Order of the Nation (KCN) by the Antiguan Barbudan government on 28 February 2014, alongside Richardson and Andy Roberts. Mike Selvey wrote in ""The Guardian"" in 1991 that Ambrose had ""the sort of easy, repetitive, no-sweat action which is the key to unyielding accuracy. There is no respite and all his other qualities"
"performance was ""dominant"", although few had heard of him previously. Identifying his yorker as his most effective delivery, it noted that he ""never lost his pace, his accuracy, or his thirst for wickets"". When Pakistan toured the West Indies in 1988, Ambrose played in the One Day International (ODI) series, taking the place of the recently retired Joel Garner. He made his debut during the first match, on 12 March 1988 in Kingston, Jamaica, taking wickets with his third and ninth deliveries; he ended the innings with four for 39 from 10 overs. In the second match, he took four"
"a mid-pitch confrontation with Curtly Ambrose. After Waugh had evaded a bouncer from Ambrose, the pair exchanged glares. Waugh swore and told Ambrose to return to his bowling mark. An angry Ambrose had to be physically dragged away by his captain: a photograph of this moment has become one of the iconic images of cricket in the 1990s. It symbolised the point when Australia was no longer intimidated by the West Indies. Waugh ""showed he was prepared to put it all on the line"", said Justin Langer, ""in the toughest conditions [...] against probably the best fast bowler of our"
"Courtney Browne Courtney Oswald Browne (born 7 December 1970 in Lambeth, England) is a Barbadian cricketer. He is a right-handed wicketkeeping batsman. He is the only West Indian Test cricketer to have been born in England. Browne was captaining Barbados when he got his first call up to the West Indies side in April 1995. He struggled to hold his place in the side and after 13 Tests he was dropped and didn't return until 3 years later for the ICC Knockout tournament in Kenya. He was soon dropped again, replaced by Ridley Jacobs. His career seemed over but he"
"beginning of a dream run for India under their captain Ganguly, winning Test matches in Zimbabwe, Sri Lanka, West Indies and England. The England series is also known for India's highest ODI run-chase of 325 runs at Lord's which came in the Natwest ODI Series final against England. In the same year, India were joint-winners of the ICC Champions Trophy with Sri Lanka and then went to the 2003 Cricket World Cup in South Africa where they reached the final, only to be beaten by Australia. The 2003–04 season also saw India play out a Test series in Australia where"
"September 1963, the fourth of seven children. His father was a carpenter from the village. The family had no background in cricket, but his mother was a fan, and Ambrose played in his youth, primarily as a batsman. At school, he performed well academically, particularly in mathematics and French, and became an apprentice carpenter upon leaving at the age of 17. He briefly considered emigrating to America. At the time, his favourite sport was basketball, although he occasionally umpired cricket matches. Ambrose was not particularly tall until he reached his late teens, when he grew several inches to reach a"
"of 2-131 look distinctly presentable. In their reply, England were dismissed for 148. Despite this batting failure by the team, Kirtley hit 12, his best ever score in a Test, off 25 deliveries, including a six, before being bowled by Muttiah Muralitharan. He bowled the first ever t20 ball, against Hampshire at the Rose Bowl. Kirtley was a surprising selection in the England squad for the 2007 World Twenty20 in South Africa, he was named alongside other specialists Darren Maddy, leg spinner Chris Schofield and veteran off spinner and former spin coach Jeremy Snape. Kirtley played one (wicketless) match against"
"of resistance against the pace attack of Curtly Ambrose (2/24) and Anderson Cummins (4/33) as India were bowled all out for 197. The West Indies comfortably reached their target of 195 (with the score and number of overs being reduced by rain again) with 6 overs to spare. India crashed out of the tournament with this loss, with their last two matches against co-hosts New Zealand at Dunedin and World Cup debutants South Africa back in Australia at Adelaide reduced to dead rubbers. India lost both the one-sided matches. Only Tendulkar (84 from 107 balls, 6 fours) and Azharuddin (55"
"of a 2–0 Test series defeat against an away series to South Africa. India won the toss and elected to bat first on a bouncy wicket. Despite having scored a hundred in a warm-up game at the same venue on 24 April, Sourav Ganguly was not included in the side and Navjot Singh Sidhu replaced him. Sachin Tendulkar started strongly for India hitting four fours off Ian Bishop's second over. India lost Sidhu after Curtly Ambrose caught him lbw for 5. Tendulkar also fell to Ambrose after making 44 off 43 balls with the score at 65/2. Rahul Dravid and"
"and remained in the team until his retirement in 2000. On many occasions, his bowling was responsible for the West Indies winning matches which seemed lost, particularly in association with Courtney Walsh. Against Australia in 1993, he took seven wickets while conceding a single run; in 1994 he was largely responsible for bowling England out for 46 runs, taking six for 24 (six wickets for 24 runs). Ambrose's bowling method relied on accuracy and conceding few runs; several of his best performances came when he took wickets in quick succession to devastate the opposition. He was particularly successful against leading"
"South Africa began the final day of the match requiring 79 runs to win with just two batsmen out, but Ambrose and Courtney Walsh took the last eight wickets for 26 runs to bowl West Indies to a 52-run win. On a difficult pitch for batting, the ball bounced unevenly, and both bowlers concentrated on accuracy. Ambrose took six for 34 in the second innings, and was named joint man of the match; in just over 60 overs, he took eight for 81 in the match. Returning to play for Northamptonshire, he was less effective. Hampered by a knee injury,"
"this match, Ambrose returned to the West Indies having been rested from an ODI tournament involving England and Zimbabwe. He took four wickets in the first innings of both the third and fourth Tests, passing 400 wickets in the latter match. After he took three wickets in his final Test match, the crowd gave him a standing ovation and the England players formed a guard-of-honour when he came out to bat. In 98 Test matches, he took 405 wickets at an average of 20.99; according to Mike Selvey, in Swetes, his mother rang a bell each time he took a"
"first One Day International was in 2001, as England beat Zimbabwe by 5 wickets. Whilst not batting, he did take 2-33 off 9.1 overs with the ball. This was his first 'international' encounter, although he bowled Mashonaland to victory ""against"" England on their tour of Zimbabwe in 1996/1997. Later in 2001, he received the NBC Denis Compton Award. Kirtley has played eleven One Day Internationals. He has needed to bat on just two occasions, each time scoring 1. He has taken nine wickets, notably nabbing Virender Sehwag of India and Matthew Hayden of Australia. His best bowling figures in this"
"so giving him a season's average of 78.00 despite a top score of just 35*. He continued to play for Lancashire until his retirement from cricket in 2004. In 1995, he was called up to the England squad for their ODI series against West Indies, and he claimed figures of 4/44 on his debut. His success in that series earned him a place on the Test team to play the West Indies that year. He was named in the touring party for the England tour to South Africa later that year, and was also part of the England squad for"