Famous Cricketers No 94 - Alfred Lewis Valentine

13 8 8 6 West Indians Leicestershire Leicester 1957 38 6 117 5 West Indians Queensland Brisbane 1960/61 13.4 1 33 5 West Indians Tasmania Launceston 1960/61 14.2 5 72 5 The Rest West Indies Kingston 1963/64 21 4 92 5 Jamaica Cavaliers Kingston 1963/64 28.5 7 69 5 Jamaica British Guiana Georgetown 1963/64 Ten Wickets in a Match (6) 47.2 19 67 13 West Indians Lancashire Old Trafford 1950 106 36 204 11 West Indies England Old Trafford 1950 90.3 31 160 10 West Indies England Kennington Oval 1950 57.7 13 164 13 Jamaica British Guiana Kingston 1950/51 55.5 8 164 12 West Indians South Australia Adelaide 1951/52 59.5 15 150 10 West Indians Sussex Hove 1957 West Indian Records Still Standing 1. Best bowling in an innings against Lancashire: 8/26 in June 1950 2. Best bowling in a match against Lancashire: 13/67 in June 1950 3. Best bowling by a West Indian in first Test innings: 8/104 in June 1950 4. Best bowling by a West Indian in first Test match: 11/104 in June 1950 5. Best bowling for Jamaica in a match against Guyana: 13/164 in March 1951 6. Best bowling in an innings against South Australia 7/52 in December 1951 7. Best bowling in a match against South Australia 12/164 in December 1951 8. Most wickets in an Australian season by a West Indian on tour: 53 in 1951/52 9. Best bowling in an innings against Leicestershire: 6/8 in August 1957 Note: Valentine is still the only bowler to take the first eight wickets to fall on his Test debut. Select Bibliography BELL, C. Jamaican First Class Cricket: A Complete Statistical Record 1895-2001 (Kingston, 2001). COZIER, T. The West Indies: Fifty Years of Test Cricket (Newton Abbot, 1978). DOBSON, D. Records of West Indies First Class Cricket (Victoria, 1994). EASTMOND, H. The Handbook of Test Cricket Records (Bridgetown, 1995). GOODWIN, C. Caribbean Cricketers: From the Pioneers to Packer (London, 1980). KUMAR, V. Cricket Lovely Cricket (Leicester, 2000). LAWRENCE, B. & GOBLE, R. The Complete Records of West Indian Test Cricketers (Leicester, 1991). LAWRENCE, B. & SCARLETT R. 100 Great Westindian Test Cricketers (London, 1988). MANLEY, N. A History of West Indies Cricket (London, 1988). NICOLE, C. West Indian Cricket (London, 1957). RICHARDS, J. & WONG, M. Statistics of West Indies Cricket 1865-1989 (Kingston, 1990). Playfair Cricket Annual 1950-66. Wisden Cricketers’ Almanack 1951-66. 40