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Full name Pedro Tyrone Collins
Born August 12, 1976, Boscobelle, St Peter, Barbados
Current age 31 years 329 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
100
50
4s
6s
Ct
St
Tests
32
47
7
235
24
5.87
701
33.52
0
0
30
0
7
0
ODIs
30
12
5
30
10*
4.28
50
60.00
0
0
1
0
8
0
First-class
110
136
34
636
25
6.23
0
0
28
0
List A
72
30
10
139
55*
6.95
0
1
12
0
Twenty20
10
2
1
2
1*
2.00
3
66.66
0
0
0
0
1
0
Bowling averages
Mat
Inns
Balls
Runs
Wkts
BBI
BBM
Ave
Econ
SR
4w
5w
10
Tests
32
61
6964
3671
106
6/53
9/117
34.63
3.16
65.6
7
3
0
ODIs
30
30
1577
1212
39
5/43
5/43
31.07
4.61
40.4
0
1
0
First-class
110
19045
9711
372
6/24
26.10
3.05
51.1
9
0
List A
72
3734
2652
114
7/11
7/11
23.26
4.26
32.7
2
2
0
Twenty20
10
10
202
247
7
3/13
3/13
35.28
7.33
28.8
0
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
Surrey v Kent at The Oval, Jun 29-Jul 2, 2008 scorecard
List A debut
1997/98
Last List A
Surrey v Sussex at Croydon, May 28, 2008 scorecard
Twenty20 debut
Anguilla v Barbados at Coolidge, Jul 18, 2006 scorecard
Last Twenty20
Hampshire v Surrey at Southampton, Jun 23, 2008 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
