Denis Atkinson

Denis Atkinson

Personal information
Batting style	Right-handed batsman (RHB)
Bowling style	Legbreak googly
International information
National side	West Indian
Career statistics
Competition	Tests	First-class
Matches	22	78
Runs scored	922	2812
Batting average	42.33	28.40
100s/50s	1/5	5/14
Top score	219	219
Balls bowled	5201	unknown
Wickets	47	200
Bowling average	35.04	26.45
5 wickets in innings	3	6
10 wickets in match	0	2
Best bowling	7/53	8/58
Catches/stumpings	11/0	39/0
Source: [1],

Denis St Eval Atkinson (9 August 1926, Rockley, Christ Church — 9 November 2001, Barbados) was a West Indian cricketer who played 22 Test matches as an all-rounder, hitting 922 runs and taking 47 wickets. He also played first-class cricket for Barbados and Trinidad. Atkinson holds the Test record for the highest seventh-wicket partnership - as captain, he made a stand of 347 with Clairmonte Depeiaza against Australia in 1954–55 to put up a total of 510 in the first innings of a drawn match. Atkinson also led West Indies to a series win in New Zealand the following year.

He also holds the record for bowling the highest number of wicketless overs in a Test innings. He recorded 72 overs, 29 maidens, no wicket for 137 runs for the West Indies against England at Edgbaston, Birmingham, in 1957.^[1]

References

1. ^ Frindall, Bill (2009). Ask Bearders. BBC Books. p. 131. ISBN 978-1-84607-880-4. 

External links

• Player profile: Denis Atkinson from ESPNcricinfo

Preceded by Jeffrey Stollmeyer

West Indies Test cricket captains 1954/5 - 1955/6

Succeeded by John Goddard

Persondata
Name	Atkinson, Denis
Alternative names
Short description
Date of birth	1926
Place of birth
Date of death	2001
Place of death