Roger Harper
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Full name | Roger Andrew Harper | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born | Georgetown, Guyana | 17 March 1963|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Height | 6 ft 4 in (1.93 m) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Batting | Right-handed | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bowling | Right-arm off break | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Relations | Mark Harper (brother) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Test debut | 10 December 1983 v India | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Last Test | 8 December 1993 v Sri Lanka | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
ODI debut | 13 October 1983 v India | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Last ODI | 13 April 1996 v Sri Lanka | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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1979–1990 | Demerara | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
1979–1997 | Guyana | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
1985–1987 | Northamptonshire | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Source: CricketArchive, 18 October 2010 |
Roger Andrew Harper (born 17 March 1963) is a Guyanese former cricketer turned coach, who played both Test and One Day International cricket for the West Indies cricket team. His international career lasted 13 years, from 1983 to 1996, and he was later described as a "fabulous" fielder.[1]
His Test bowling average of 28.06 is superior to that of Lance Gibbs, giving him the leading average among all West Indian spinners with at least 25 Test wickets. One of his most notable performances was against South Africa in the Quarter Finals of the 1996 Cricket World Cup when he took 4/47 to allow the West Indies to seize control of the match.
Harper was an all-rounder who batted right-handed and bowled right-arm off breaks. As a player, he recorded 535 runs and 46 wickets in his 25 Tests, and he played 200 first class matches. After his playing career, he became a coach, taking over the West Indies team between 2000 and 2003, and then team manager of the West Indies Under-19 cricket team in 2005. However, he was approached by Cricket Kenya in late December 2005 with an offer of taking over the Kenyan national team after interim coach Mudassar Nazar, and the appointment was made official in January 2006. Harper said it "was great to be back" coaching players "at a relatively high level."[2]
References[]
- ^ Roger Harper at ESPNcricinfo
- ^ Murgatroyd, Brian (10 January 2006). "Roger Harper confirmed as Kenya coach". ESPNcricinfo. Retrieved 11 November 2021.
- 1963 births
- Living people
- Sportspeople from Georgetown, Guyana
- Guyanese cricketers
- Demerara cricketers
- Northamptonshire cricketers
- West Indies One Day International cricketers
- West Indies Test cricketers
- West Indian cricket captains
- Guyanese cricket coaches
- Guyana cricketers
- Afro-Guyanese people
- Coaches of the Kenya national cricket team
- Cricketers at the 1987 Cricket World Cup
- Cricketers at the 1992 Cricket World Cup
- Cricketers at the 1996 Cricket World Cup
- Caribbean Premier League coaches
- Coaches of the United States national cricket team
- M Parkinson's World XI cricketers
- Scarborough Festival President's XI cricketers
- D. B. Close's XI cricketers