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Happy Birthday Desmond Haynes
105 Tests, 7487 runs, 18 💯s
238 Odis, 8648 runs, 17 💯s (16 came in a winning cause)
With Gordon Greenidge formed one of the greatest opening partnerships of all time, 16 century stands in Tests.
His Highest Odi Score 152* vs 🇮🇳 atGeorgetown 1989.
Birth of Desmond Haynes, who with Gordon Greenidge formed one of the greatest opening partnerships of all time. They put together 16 century stands in Tests, with Haynes usually playing the sedate straight man to Greenidge's slayer. Haynes was also a superb one-day batter, a master at pacing an innings (11 of his 17 ODI centuries were unbeaten, and 16 of them came in a winning cause), and no West Indian had scored more than his 8648 ODI runs till Brian Lara overtook the mark. Haynes made three fifties in his first three Test innings, and also three hundreds in a row against England and Pakistan in 1990. He was a generally happy and popular character, but in his first Test as captain, covering for the injured Viv Richards, in Trinidad in 1990, he had a shouting match with Alec Stewart and denied England victory with blatant time-wasting tactics.