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Full name Corey Dalanelo Collymore
Born December 21, 1977, Boscobelle, St Peter, Barbados
Current age 30 years 296 days
Major teams West Indies,Barbados,Sussex,Warwickshire
Playing role Bowler
Batting style Right-hand bat
Bowling style Right-arm fast-medium
Batting and fielding averages
Mat
Inns
NO
Runs
HS
Ave
BF
SR
100
50
4s
6s
Ct
St
Tests
30
52
27
197
16*
7.88
642
30.68
0
0
19
0
6
0
ODIs
84
35
17
104
13*
5.77
261
39.84
0
0
5
2
12
0
First-class
97
141
65
594
20
7.81
0
0
34
0
List A
125
46
22
146
13*
6.08
0
0
17
0
Twenty20
6
2
1
5
4
5.00
11
45.45
0
0
0
0
4
0
Bowling averages
Mat
Inns
Balls
Runs
Wkts
BBI
BBM
Ave
Econ
SR
4w
5w
10
Tests
30
53
6337
3004
93
7/57
11/134
32.30
2.84
68.1
3
4
1
ODIs
84
80
4074
2924
83
5/51
5/51
35.22
4.30
49.0
1
1
0
First-class
97
16703
7851
290
7/57
27.07
2.82
57.5
10
2
List A
125
5884
4223
134
5/27
5/27
31.51
4.30
43.9
1
2
0
Twenty20
6
5
95
133
3
1/21
1/21
44.33
8.40
31.6
0
0
0
Career statistics
Test debut
West Indies v Australia at St John's, Apr 3-7, 1999 scorecard
Last Test
England v West Indies at Chester-le-Street, Jun 15-19, 2007 scorecard
Test statistics
ODI debut
India v West Indies at Toronto, Sep 11, 1999 scorecard
Last ODI
West Indies v England at Bridgetown, Apr 21, 2007 scorecard
ODI statistics
First-class debut
1998/99
Last First-class
Yorkshire v Sussex at Scarborough, Sep 3-6, 2008 scorecard
List A debut
1999/00
Last List A
Kent v Sussex at Canterbury, May 11, 2008 scorecard
Twenty20 debut
Anguilla v Barbados at Coolidge, Jul 18, 2006 scorecard
Last Twenty20
Surrey v Sussex at The Oval, Jun 15, 2008 scorecard
Profile
Barely fast-medium, averaging in the mid to high 70s, he is fairly accurate and aggressive, although he remains one of the worst fielders in the game. Corey Collymore's sprint to the crease is reminiscent of Malcolm Marshall's, but, unlike Marshall, his open-chested deliveries seem to limit his ability to move the ball away from the right-hander. His misfortune has been the plague of modern fast bowlers: stress fractures. Yet he is a determined man, who recovered from back injuries when critics had written him off at the end of West Indies' tour of England in 2000, and thus fulfilled his promise to be back in the game. He took four wickets on his return to the one-day side in Zimbabwe in 2001, as West Indies beat India in the final of the Coca-Cola Cup, and after a moderately successful World Cup in 2003, he was recalled to the Test team for the home series against Sri Lanka. He responded with five wickets in the drawn first Test, and a second-innings haul of 7 for 57 in the second, as West Indies sealed a seven-wicket victory. From there on, he was shunted in and out of the squad, before being included half-way through the Test series for his experience. He shared the new ball with younger speed merchants, and though he put the ball in the right place, his inability to put fear in the hearts of batsmen meant that he was expensive and ineffective on the tour to England. Against India at home in 2006, however, Collymore pegged away all through the series, providing a valuable tourniquet at one end. He was way ahead of the other fast bowlers in terms of his economy-rate (2.33) and always appeared capable of taking a wicket. His spell on the first morning at Antigua floored India and, despite not looking fully fit, maintained his accuracy throughout. He played only eight international games in the 2006-07 season and averaged over 30 but just ahead of the selection for World Cup he rocked Jamaica with a six-for in the Carib series. He failed to carry that form into the tournament itself but still found himself briefly in the top 10 of the ICC Test rankings. In 2008, he replaced Ryan Harris at Sussex, joining the club as a Kolpak.
Vaneisa Baksh May 2008
