Brandon Bess

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Brandon Bess
Personal information
Full name Brandon Jeremy Bess
Born (1987-12-13) 13 December 1987 (age 37)
Rosignol, Berbice, Guyana
Batting style Right-handed
Bowling style Right-arm fast-medium
International information
National side
Only Test (cap 286) 26 June 2010 v South Africa
Domestic team information
Years Team
2008– Guyana
Career statistics
Competition Test FC LA T20
Matches 1 26 3 1
Runs scored 11 155 0
Batting average 11.00 7.38
100s/50s 0/0 0/0 0/0 –/–
Top score 11* 20 0*
Balls bowled 78 2647 108 24
Wickets 1 45 2 1
Bowling average 92.00 43.08 51.00 24.00
5 wickets in innings 0 1 0 0
10 wickets in match 0 0 n/a n/a
Best bowling 1/65 5/28 1/20 1/24
Catches/stumpings 0/– 8/– 3/– 1/–
Source: CricketArchive, 10 July 2011

Brandon Jeremy Bess (born 13 December 1987) is an international cricketer who made his debut for the West Indies cricket team in June 2010 as a late replacement for Nelon Pascal, who was injured pre-match. A right-arm fast-medium bowler and lower order right-handed batsman, he plays first-class cricket for Guyana.

Cricket career

Early cricket

Bess made his debut for Guyana in January 2008, playing in a Carib Beer Cup match against Trinidad and Tobago. He played only one further match in the 2007–08 season.[1] He played more regularly in 2008–09, and appeared for West Indies A against the touring England XI, claiming a solitary wicket.[2] The season also saw him make his first appearances in List A cricket, playing two matches for Guyana in November 2008.[3]

His best bowling figures came early in the 2009–10 season, when he claimed four wickets in the first innings against Jamaica.[4] He completed 2009–10 with a bowling average of 33.69, his best season average.[5] His performances saw him appear for the West Indies A against the Zimbabweans in April 2010.[1]

Test call-up

During the 2010 home series against South Africa, Bess made a surprise debut. Nelon Pascal, himself in the team for the missing Ravi Rampaul,[6] suffered a neck injury during the pre-match warm-up exercises.[7] Bess, who was training at the High Performance Centre in Bridgetown was rushed to the ground,[8] not arriving until the second over of the match.[9] Bess, who came into the game with an first-class bowling average of 48.80, opened the bowling for the West Indies, but saw opposition captain Graeme Smith score three boundaries off his first over.[9] He was taken off after his second over as Chris Gayle turned to spinner Shane Shillingford.[10] He returned in the twentieth over, and claimed the wicket of nightwatchman Paul Harris. He continued to bowl expensively, with 65 runs coming off the 9 overs that he bowled in the first innings. Cricinfo's Siddhartha Talya was unimpressed with his performance:[11]

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...and Bess adding to the frustration with his indiscipline with the second new-ball. He bowled seven no-balls, provided width, strayed on the pads and dropped short to be dealt with each time by the batsmen who gradually had begun to loosen up.

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