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Full name Pedro Tyrone Collins
Born August 12, 1976, Boscobelle, St Peter, Barbados
Current age 33 years 102 days
Major teams West Indies, Barbados, Surrey
Playing role Bowler
Batting style Right-hand bat
Bowling style Left-arm fast-medium
Relation Half-brother - FH Edwards
Batting | Bowling | Career statistics | Profile | Notes | Latest Articles | Latest Photos
| 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 | 125 | 158 | 43 | 767 | 25 | 6.66 | 0 | 0 | 29 | 0 | ||||
| List A | 91 | 36 | 10 | 153 | 55* | 5.88 | 0 | 1 | 14 | 0 | ||||
| Twenty20 | 13 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 1* | 2.00 | 4 | 50.00 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 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 | 125 | 21435 | 11069 | 416 | 6/24 | 26.60 | 3.09 | 51.5 | 11 | 0 | |||
| List A | 91 | 4443 | 3200 | 136 | 7/11 | 7/11 | 23.52 | 4.32 | 32.6 | 2 | 2 | 0 | |
| Twenty20 | 13 | 13 | 274 | 355 | 10 | 3/13 | 3/13 | 35.50 | 7.77 | 27.4 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 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 | Kent v Surrey at Canterbury, Aug 28-31, 2009 scorecard |
| List A debut | 1997/98 |
| Last List A | Northamptonshire v Surrey at Northampton, Sep 13, 2009 scorecard |
| Twenty20 debut | Anguilla v Barbados at Coolidge, Jul 18, 2006 scorecard |
| Last Twenty20 | Kent v Surrey at Beckenham, Jun 28, 2009 scorecard |
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
First-class debut: 1997 v Guyana at Bridgetown
- Collins and Tudor released by Surrey (Oct 29, 2009)
- Broad bursts through Worcestershire (Apr 22, 2009)
- Stuck on Powell (Jan 25, 2009)
- Collins, Best rattle Leewards (Jan 25, 2009)
- Boards must be careful over dropping Kolpak players (Jan 9, 2009)
Sep 12, 2008
Pedro Collins and Usman Afzaal trudge off after Surrey's innings defeat
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Jun 15, 2008
Pedro Collins just fails in his attempt to catch Chris Nash
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May 1, 2008
Carl Hopkinson does well to dig out a yorker from Pedro Collins
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