Floyd Reifer
It takes balls to announce – eight years after your last Test and with a five-day batting average of 7.88 to boot – that you’re willing to be picked to represent your country. Bajan batsman Floyd ‘no shrinking wallflower’ Reifer (pictured above) did exactly that back in 2007, and when the entire Windies side went on strike the day before the 2009 Test against Bangladesh at Kingstown he was seen as the right man to instil some steel in the motley crew of cricketers the WICB cobbled together in their place. Two resounding defeats and a Test average boosted to the heady heights of 9.25 suggest he probably wasn’t.
It takes balls to announce – eight years after your last Test and with a five-day batting average of 7.88 to boot – that you’re willing to be picked to represent your country. Bajan batsman Floyd ‘no shrinking wallflower’ Reifer (pictured above) did exactly that back in 2007, and when the entire Windies side went on strike the day before the 2009 Test against Bangladesh at Kingstown he was seen as the right man to instil some steel in the motley crew of cricketers the WICB cobbled together in their place. Two resounding defeats and a Test average boosted to the heady heights of 9.25 suggest he probably wasn’t.