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Full name Lawrence George Rowe
Born January 8, 1949, Whitfield Town, Kingston, Jamaica
Current age 59 years 244 days
Major teams West Indies,Derbyshire,Jamaica
Batting style Right-hand bat
Bowling style Left-arm fast-medium
Batting and fielding averages
Mat
Inns
NO
Runs
HS
Ave
BF
SR
100
50
6s
Ct
St
Tests
30
49
2
2047
302
43.55
7
7
6
17
0
ODIs
11
8
0
136
60
17.00
244
55.73
0
1
0
2
0
First-class
149
245
12
8755
302
37.57
18
38
118
0
List A
52
48
2
1400
87
30.43
0
10
18
0
Bowling averages
Mat
Inns
Balls
Runs
Wkts
BBI
BBM
Ave
Econ
SR
4w
5w
10
Tests
30
5
86
44
0
-
-
-
3.06
-
0
0
0
ODIs
11
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
First-class
149
430
224
2
1/19
112.00
3.12
215.0
0
0
List A
52
34
30
2
1/0
1/0
15.00
5.29
17.0
0
0
0
Career statistics
Test debut
West Indies v New Zealand at Kingston, Feb 16-21, 1972 scorecard
Last Test
New Zealand v West Indies at Auckland, Feb 29-Mar 5, 1980 scorecard
Test statistics
ODI debut
Australia v West Indies at Adelaide, Dec 20, 1975 scorecard
Last ODI
New Zealand v West Indies at Christchurch, Feb 6, 1980 scorecard
ODI statistics
First-class span
1968/69 - 1981/82
List A span
1974 - 1983/84
Profile
This was a West Indian batsman for the West Indies. More than that, Lawrence Rowe was a hometown boy: at Sabina Park, four Tests brought him three centuries, including a unique double and single hundred on debut, and an average of 113.40. In the rest of the Caribbean he averaged 43, and less than 30 abroad. He was an enigmatic, elegant, composed right-hander, opening or high in the order. He thrived on sunshine, and the back-foot shots that were the staple on hard pitches and less comfortable on slower seaming surfaces. His hooking and pulling was instinctive and deadly. But his career was punctuated by problems with his eyesight, a variety of injuries and, perversely, an allergy to grass. If Lawrence sneezed, they said, put the opposition in.
He might not have been one of the supreme batsmen, but he did manage one of the great innings. Against England at Bridgetown in 1974 he made 302 out of 596 for 8, in a little over ten hours of unruffled technical excellence.
Mike Selvey
