Patterson Thompson

Infobox Cricketer |

nationality = West Indian
country = West Indies
country abbrev = WI
name = Patterson Thompson
picture = cricket_no_pic.pngbatting style = Right-handed batsman (RHB)
bowling style = Right arm fast-medium (RFM)
tests = 2
test runs = 17
test bat avg = 8.50
test 100s/50s = 0/0
test top score = 10*
test overs = 38
test wickets = 5
test bowl avg = 43.00
test 5s = 0
test 10s = 0
test best bowling = 2-58
test catches/stumpings = 0/0
ODIs = 2
ODI runs = 2
ODI bat avg = 2.00
ODI 100s/50s = 0/0
ODI top score = 2
ODI overs = 19
ODI wickets = 2
ODI bowl avg = 55.00
ODI 5s = 0
ODI best bowling = 1-46
ODI catches/stumpings = 0/0
date = 27 September
year = 2005
source = http://content-uk.cricinfo.com/westindies/content/player/53130.html

Patterson Ian Chesterfield Thompson (born 26 September 1971 in Pine Garden, St Michael, Barbados) was a West Indies cricketer. He never recovered from a terrible start to his Test career and played only once more at that level, as well as in two One Day Internationals. An exceptionally poor batsman, his career first-class batting average was a feeble 4.21, and in 36 innings he reached double figures just four times with a highest score of a mere 15.

Thompson made his first-class debut for Barbados in the 1994-95 Red Stripe Cup, and performed well, taking six wickets in the game - his first being that of Jamaica's opening batsman and Test player Robert Samuels. He took ten wickets in all that season at 27.20, and in the following year's Red Stripe Cup he claimed 23 wickets, the fourth highest of any bowler that year, at 22.34. As a result, at the end of the West Indian season in April, Thompson was picked for the first Test against New Zealand at his home ground of Bridgetown.

Although West Indies won the match by ten wickets, in large part due to Jimmy Adams' career-best 5-17 and Sherwin Campbell's 208, Patterson himself had a torrid time. His first over in Test cricket went for 17 runs, and in all he bowled 13 no-balls (and a wide) in the first innings. He did pick up two wickets, but finished with a very poor analysis of 8-0-58-2. Patterson was a little more accurate in the second innings, in which his nine no-balls were eclipsed by Ian Bishop's 11, but 14-1-77-2 was not good enough to make up for his earlier disaster and he was dropped from the side at once.

In 1996-97 after having a poor time in the List A Shell/Sandals Trophy where he took only four wickets at 57.50, he was perhaps a little lucky to be chosen for the Australian tour, and he proved very expensive in the pre-Test first-class games, with aggregate figures of 4-291 in four matches. He also conceded 110 in 19 overs against Pakistan in two ODIs at Perth and Sydney. Nevertheless, he was picked against the Australians for the fourth Test at Adelaide.

West Indies were crushed by an innings and 183 runs, and again Patterson failed to deliver. Although he bowled only one wide and no no-balls at all, he was by far the least economical of his side's bowlers, his 16 overs being punished to the tune of 80 runs as Australia ran up 517. He did pick up the wicket of Ian Healy, but by then it was far too late, and this match brought a permanent end to Thompson's Test match career. In fact over the two games he had taken a wicket on average every 46 balls, but a wholly unacceptable economy rate of 5.65 had undermined him fatally.

He played on in domestic cricket for another couple of seasons, although without any outstanding success, before bowing out with a game against Trinidad and Tobago in the 1998-99 Busta Cup. Ironically, his first-innings bowling performance was one of his most economical: his 10 overs went for only 19. However, the second innings was a different story as his no-ball problem returned with a vengeance. He sent down 12 of them in the space of seven wicketless overs, and with that he left the first-class game for good.

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