| Courtney Walsh Profile |
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| Year |
Notes |
| 1962 |
Born October 30, Kingston, Jamaica. |
| 1979 |
Takes record 10-43 in Jamaican school cricket. |
| 1982 |
Makes first-class debut for Jamaica. |
| 1984 |
Debutes for English county Gloucestershire. |
| 1984 |
Makes test debut, against Australia in first test at Perth. |
| 1987 |
Named one of Wisden's five Cricketers of the Year for 1986. |
| 1988 |
Takes hat trick in first test of 1988-89 series against Australia in Brisbane with last ball |
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of first innings and first two balls of his first spell in second innings. |
| 1994 |
Appointed West Indies captain for tours of India and New Zealand after Richie |
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Richardson ordered to rest because of "acute fatigue syndrome." |
| 1995 |
Captures his test career best 7-37 in second test against New Zealand in Wellington. |
| 1995 |
Reaches 300 test wickets landmark during sixth and final test against England at The |
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Oval. |
| 1996 |
Named West Indies captain after Richie Richardson resigns at the end of World Cup |
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on the Indian sub-continent. |
| 1998 |
Sacked as West Indies captain after they lose all three tests on tour of Pakistan in late |
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1997. |
| 1998 |
Becomes West Indies' leading wicket-taker in tests when he passes Malcolm Marshall's |
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mark of 376 wickets in first test against South Africa in Johannesburg. |
| 1999 |
Becomes only third bowler in test history after Kapil Dev (434) and Sir Richard Hadlee |
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(431) to take 400 wickets, in first test against Australia at Port of Spain. |
| 2000 |
Breaks Kapil Dev's world record for most wickets in tests during second test against |
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Zimbabwe. |
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