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Full name Pedro Tyrone Collins
Born August 12, 1976, Boscobelle, St Peter, Barbados
Current age 32 years 10 days
Major teams West Indies, Barbados, Surrey
Playing role Bowler
Batting style Right-hand bat
Bowling style Left-arm fast-medium
Relations Half-brother - FH Edwards

Batting and fielding averages

Mat

Inns

Runs

Ave

100

Tests

235

5.87

701

33.52

ODIs

10*

4.28

60.00

First-class

113

139

665

6.39

List A

141

55*

6.71

Twenty20

2.00

66.66

Bowling averages

Mat

Inns

Balls

Runs

Wkts

BBI

BBM

Ave

Econ

Tests

6964

3671

106

6/53

9/117

34.63

3.16

65.6

ODIs

1577

1212

5/43

31.07

4.61

40.4

First-class

113

19423

9969

377

6/24

26.44

3.07

51.5

List A

3867

2746

118

7/11

23.27

4.26

32.7

Twenty20

202

247

3/13

35.28

7.33

28.8

Career statistics

Test debut

West Indies v Australia at Port of Spain, Mar 5-8, 1999 scorecard

Last Test

West Indies v India at Kingston, Jun 30-Jul 2, 2006 scorecard

Test statistics

ODI debut

Pakistan v West Indies at Sharjah, Oct 19, 1999 scorecard

Last ODI

West Indies v Pakistan at Gros Islet, May 22, 2005 scorecard

ODI statistics

First-class debut

1996/97

Last First-class

Somerset v Surrey at Taunton, Aug 12-15, 2008 scorecard

List A debut

1997/98

Last List A

Essex v Surrey at Chelmsford, Aug 5, 2008 scorecard

Twenty20 debut

Anguilla v Barbados at Coolidge, Jul 18, 2006 scorecard

Last Twenty20

Hampshire v Surrey at Southampton, Jun 23, 2008 scorecard

As a fast-medium bowler, Pedro Collins has bowled alongside genuine pacemen like Curtly Ambrose, Courtney Walsh and Ian Bishop, but without the kind of stamina required to sustain long spells. Collins was a keen footballer before he fell into cricket, and his left-arm bowling follows the lineage of Bernard Julien and Garry Sobers, and he finds enough swing into the right-hander to cause the best batsmen difficulty. In November 1998 he took three wickets in 11 balls for West Indies A against India, a spell which led to his Test debut against Australia the following March. For a long time after that, he was best remembered for an injury of the cruellest kind, when a Jason Gillespie delivery trapped a testicle outside his box. He worked on his fitness, though, and he returned to the side in 2001-02, with a higher arm action and an extra yard of pace. He took just nine wickets in West Indies' series victory over India, but claimed the prize scalp of Sachin Tendulkar on three occasions. He struggled on India's flat pitches, though, before terrorising Bangladesh in 2002-03. What followed was a less-than-enchanting outing against Australia, and Collins didn't play for close to a year. But he returned to take on England in March 2004, and within six balls, removed Michael Vaughan, before taking three more wickets, to herald a successful return to the side. After a spell out of the side which saw him miss the World Cup and the 2007 tour of England, he was recalled to the West Indies squad for the Twenty20 World Championship and soon after he signed a two-year deal with Surrey as a Kolpak player. His international career was further thrown into doubt when he pulled out of the subsequent series against Sri Lanka in order to fulfil his county contract.
Vaneisa Baksh March 2008

Jun 15, 2008

Pedro Collins just fails in his attempt to catch Chris Nash © Getty Images

May 1, 2008

Carl Hopkinson does well to dig out a yorker from Pedro Collins © Getty Images

Mar 9, 2008

Pedro Collins celebrates another wicket with Kevin Stoute © The Nation

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