17 Facts About Vasbert Drakes

Vasbert Conniel Drakes was born on 5 August 1969 and is a former West Indian cricketer, who played Tests and ODIs.

Vasbert Drakes was a right-arm medium-fast bowler and handy right-hand lower order batsman.

Vasbert Drakes coached the UAE, Barbados and the West Indies women's cricket team.

Vasbert Drakes did not return to the side until the age of 33, when in September 2002 he was named in the West Indies cricket team' squad for the 2002 ICC Champions Trophy.

Vasbert Drakes took the wicket of Jacques Kallis in his first international over for seven years.

Vasbert Drakes went on to make his test debut, on 8 December 2002, against Bangladesh at Dhaka's Bangabandhu National Stadium.

Vasbert Drakes then took 5 wickets against Australia in the first test of the 2003 Frank Worrel Trophy series played at Bourda.

Vasbert Drakes later made 67 in a test match played in and against South Africa.

Vasbert Drakes featured in the 2003 ICC World Cup where he took a spectacular diving catch in a game against Canada.

Vasbert Drakes eventually picked up a sum of 51 wickets at an average of 25.35 with two five wicket hauls in his ODI career.

Vasbert Drakes played county cricket for English sides Sussex, Nottinghamshire, Warwickshire and Leicestershire.

Vasbert Drakes scored two centuries for Sussex and picked up 80 wickets in his first and only season with Nottinghamshire.

Vasbert Drakes featured for South African club Border, with Drakes twice being named, in 1999 and 2000, as one of the South African Cricketers of the Year.

Vasbert Drakes is one of only six batsmen in the history of first-class cricket to be given out timed out.

Vasbert Drakes was briefly the coach of Queen's Park Cricket Club.

Vasbert Drakes led the West Indies women's cricket team to their first major title by winning the 2016 ICC Women's World Twenty20 in India.

Vasbert Drakes's son, Dominic Vasbert Drakes is a cricketer who's a left arm seamer.