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Born | Barbados | 20 December 1963|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Bowling | Right arm medium-slow | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Pearson Best (born 20 December 1963) is a former Cayman Islands cricketer. [1] An all-rounder, he is a right-handed batsman and right-arm slow-medium bowler, [2] he played for the Cayman Islands national cricket team from 2000 to 2012. [3] His matches include two first-class [4] and four List A matches. [5]
Best was born in Barbados and moved to the Caymans around 1998 to work for the Royal Cayman Islands Police Service. In 2005 he was stationed on Cayman Brac. [6]
Best made his debut for the Cayman Islands in the Red Stripe Bowl, a domestic competition in the West Indies, in October 2000. He played four matches in the tournament, making up his only four List A matches to date. [5] He played in the ICC Americas Championship in 2002 and 2004 and in the repêchage tournament for the 2005 ICC Trophy in 2005. [7] In the latter tournament, he won man of the match awards for his performances against Kuwait and Zambia, [8] finishing the tournament with the best batting average (76.33) and the second highest score of 99 not out. [9]
In August 2005 he played his, to date, only first-class matches, 2005 ICC Intercontinental Cup matches against Bermuda and Canada. [4] In 2006, he played for the Cayman Islands in the inaugural Stanford 20/20 tournament. He top scored with 74 in the preliminary round against the Bahamas, winning $25,000 for the man of the match award, [10] but only scored three in the first round proper against Trinidad & Tobago as the Caymans were knocked out of the tournament. [11] Only three players made a higher individual score in the tournament. [12]
Later in 2006, he again played in the Americas Championship. [7] He was the second highest scorer in the tournament, [13] winning the man of the match award for his top score of 116 against Argentina. [14] He most recently represented the Cayman Islands at Division Three of the World Cricket League in Darwin, Australia in May/June 2007. [15]