Desmond Haynes
INTL CAREER: 1978 - 1994
Full Name
Desmond Leo Haynes
Born
February 15, 1956, Holders Hill, St James, Barbados
Age
68y 79d
Batting Style
Right hand Bat
Playing Role
Opening Batter
Other
Coach
Think of Desmond Haynes and you see Kensington Oval, sun-drenched, and a broad smile as he beat out another century.
Haynes' batting possessed a solid muscularity and all-round nature to it, and while he was capable of destructive innings, he tended - in opening partnerships anyway - towards acting as a counterpoint to Gordon Greenidge's belligerent strokeplay.
He started his Test career with three half-centuries, at home against Australia in 1977-78. Next season he made hundreds in back-to-back Tests on a challenging tour of New Zealand. He made his highest Test score, 184, in his tenth Test, at Lord's, in the course of a double-century stand with Viv Richards.
At his best against pace, like most West Indians, he had the technique and diligence to score 75 and 143 in a game, the latter innings in a total of 256 in a rare West Indies defeat for that era, on a dustbowl in Sydney in 1989.
Though happiness pervaded Haynes' cricket, it was underpinned by a ruthless streak best illustrated by the cynical way in which, on his captaincy debut in 1990, he used delaying tactics to deny England a win in Trinidad.
He held the one-day record for most hundreds (17) till Sachin Tendulkar passed him in 1998.
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