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Full name Pedro Tyrone Collins
Born August 12, 1976, Boscobelle, St Peter, Barbados
Current age 31 years 279 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	NO	Runs	HS	Ave	BF	SR	50	4s	6s	Ct
Tests	32	47	7	235	24	5.87	701	33.52	0	30	0	7
ODIs	30	12	5	30	10*	4.28	50	60.00	0	1	0	8
First-class	106	131	34	628	25	6.47			0			26
List A	71	30	10	139	55*	6.95			1			12
Twenty20	3	1	0	1	1	1.00	2	50.00	0	0	0	0

Bowling averages
	Mat	Inns	Balls	Runs	Wkts	BBI	BBM	Ave	Econ	SR	4w	5w
Tests	32	61	6964	3671	106	6/53	9/117	34.63	3.16	65.6	7	3
ODIs	30	30	1577	1212	39	5/43	5/43	31.07	4.61	40.4	0	1
First-class	106		18406	9290	361	6/24		25.73	3.02	50.9		9
List A	71		3734	2652	114	7/11	7/11	23.26	4.26	32.7	2	2
Twenty20	3	3	58	45	4	3/13	3/13	11.25	4.65	14.5	0	0

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	Sussex v Surrey at Hove, Apr 30-May 3, 2008 scorecard
List A debut	1997/98
Last List A	Surrey v Essex at The Oval, May 11, 2008 scorecard
Twenty20 debut	Anguilla v Barbados at Coolidge, Jul 18, 2006 scorecard
Last Twenty20	Barbados v Trinidad & Tobago at Coolidge, Jul 29, 2006 scorecard

Profile

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

May 1, 2008

Carl Hopkinson does well to dig out a yorker from Pedro Collins
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Mar 9, 2008

Pedro Collins celebrates another wicket with Kevin Stoute
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Dec 14, 2007

Pedro Collins unwinds in the tour opener
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