Patrick Patterson (cricketer)

Patrick Patterson
Personal information
Full name Balfour Patrick Patterson
Born (1961-09-15) 15 September 1961
Williamsfield, Jamaica
Bowling style Right-arm fast
Role Fast bowler
International information
National side
Test debut 21 February 1986 v England
Last Test 27 November 1993 v Australia
ODI debut 18 February 1986 v England
Last ODI 25 February 1993 v Pakistan
Domestic team information
YearsTeam
1982–1998 Jamaica
1984–1990 Lancashire
1984–1985 Tasmania
Career statistics
Competition Tests ODIs FC LA
Matches 28 59 161 100
Runs scored 145 44 618 106
Batting average 6.59 8.80 5.83 10.60
100s/50s 0/0 0/0 0/0 0/0
Top score 21* 13* 29 16
Balls bowled 4,829 3,050 24,346 5,115
Wickets 93 90 493 144
Bowling average 30.90 24.51 27.51 24.27
5 wickets in innings 5 1 25 1
10 wickets in match 0 0 2 0
Best bowling 5/24 6/29 7/24 6/29
Catches/stumpings 5/– 9/– 32/– 15/–
Source: Cricket Archive, 19 October 2010

Balfour Patrick Patterson (born 15 September 1961) is a former fast bowler for the West Indian cricket team in the late 1980s and early 1990s.[1]

Early life

Born in Portland, Jamaica to Maurice and Emelda, Patterson attended Happy Grove High School and Wolmer's School, receiving his Jamaica School Certificate.[2]

Patterson's father and grandfather played parish level cricket in Jamaica[2] and Patterson showed ability from an early age and made his debut for Jamaica in 1983. He also played for Lancashire in the English County Championship, between 1984 and 1990, and Tasmania in the Sheffield Shield 1984–85.

Career

Patterson arrived on the international scene in the absence of Michael Holding for the 1986 Sabina Park Test against England, and was labeled as one of the fastest bowlers in the international game. Broadly built, aggressive and quick, Patterson took seven wickets on debut. He kept his place and became a regular new ball bowler for the West Indies.[1] Graham Gooch, seasoned England opener, remarked that Patterson frightened him with his fast bowling.[1]

Patterson returned figures of 5/24 in the first Test of the 1987/8 series against India, bowling them out in 30.3 overs, or little over one session of play on the first day.[3] In a Test Match in Melbourne, 1988–89, during Christmas, just before second last days play, Steve Waugh decided to bounce Patterson. At the end of the day's play, Patterson stormed into the Australian dressing room and threatened to kill all the opposition batsmen on the pitch on the fifth and final day of play. Australia were then dismissed for 114 chasing 400. Patterson finished with five wickets in the innings and nine wickets for the match.[4]

He was dropped for disciplinary reasons after the 1992/3 tour to Australia, the last time the West Indies won a series in Australia. Patterson's career strike rate of 51.9 is amongst the best of all time, although his 93 Test wickets came at a slightly high average of 30.9 owing to his excessively attacking nature and subsequent field settings, which always provided opportunity for runs as well as wickets.

Post-retirement

In 2016, Andrew Miller wrote of Patterson, "[T]he utter anonymity of his post-cricket life merely adds to the legend. No one seems entirely sure what has become of him, lost back to the streets from whence he came."[5]

See also

Notes

  1. 1 2 3 "Player Profile: Patrick Patterson". Cricinfo. Retrieved 15 May 2009.
  2. 1 2 Sproat, I. (1988) The Cricketers' Who's Who 1988 , Willow Books, London.
  3. ↑ 1st TEST: India v West Indies at Delhi, 25–29 Nov 1987
  4. ↑ "Australia v West Indies, Third Test, 1988/89 – Scorecard". Cricinfo. Retrieved 5 August 2009.
  5. ↑ Miller, Andrew. "They came, they conquered, they vanished". The Cricket Monthly. Retrieved 14 November 2016.
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