Roger Harper

West Indies

Personal Information
Born
Mar 17, 1963 (55 years)
Birth Place
Georgetown, Demerara, British Guiana
Height
6 ft 5 in
Role
Batsman
Batting Style
Right Handed Bat
Bowling Style
Right-arm offbreak
ICC Rankings
 
Test
ODI
T20
Batting
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Bowling
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Career Information
Teams
West Indies
Known more for his fielding skills than his batting or bowling, Roger Harper is a former West Indies cricket who later turned coach. Harper, an off spinner, made his debut in 1983 and played...
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Batting Career Summary
M Inn Runs BF HS Avg SR NO 4s 6s 50 100 200
Test 25 32 535 1252 74 18.45 42.74 3 52 9 3 0 0
ODI 105 73 855 1162 45 16.13 73.59 20 53 18 0 0 0
T20 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
IPL 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Bowling Career Summary
M Inn B Runs Wkts Avg Econ SR BBI BBM 5w 10w
Test 25 39 3615 1291 46 28.07 2.14 78.59 6/57 6/90 1 0
ODI 105 99 5175 3431 100 34.31 3.98 51.75 4/40 4/40 0 0
T20 0 0 0 0 0 0.0 0 0.0 -/- -/- 0 0
IPL 0 0 0 0 0 0.0 0 0.0 -/- -/- 0 0
Career Information
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Known more for his fielding skills than his batting or bowling, Roger Harper is a former West Indies cricket who later turned coach. Harper, an off spinner, made his debut in 1983 and played through the decade as West Indies' lead spinner and a useful batsman in the lower order. Harper could play only 25 Tests for the country but managed much more in the ODI version, and even had some useful contributions to his name, the most notable one being the 4/47 in the quarter-finals against South Africa in the 1996 World Cup.

After retirement in the same year, Harper went into coaching and was appointed coach of the West Indies national side in 2000, during a period of transition, and coached the side till 2003. He then took over as the team manager in 2005 and then went on to coach the Kenyan national team for
another two years.

By Karthik Lakshmanan
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