Roland Holder

{{short description|West Indian cricketer}} {{Infobox cricketer | name = Roland Holder | image = | country = West Indies | fullname = Roland Irwin Christopher Holder | birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1967|12|22|df=yes}} | birth_place = [[Port of Spain]], [[Trinidad and Tobago]] | nickname = | heightft = | heightinch = | heightm = | batting = Right-handed | bowling = Right-arm medium pace | role = | family = | international = true | testdebutdate = 6 March | testdebutyear = 1997 | testdebutagainst = India | testcap = 214 | lasttestdate = 5 March | lasttestyear = 1999 | lasttestagainst = Australia | testshirt = | odidebutdate = 3 November | odidebutyear = 1993 | odidebutagainst = Sri Lanka | odicap = 65 | lastodidate = 19 December | lastodiyear = 1997 | lastodiagainst = England | club1 = [[Barbados national cricket team|Barbados]] | year1 = 1985–2001 | columns = 4 | column1 = [[Test cricket|Tests]] | matches1 = 11 | runs1 = 380 | bat avg1 = 25.33 | 100s/50s1 = 0/2 | top score1 = 91 | deliveries1 = 0 | wickets1 = – | bowl avg1 = – | fivefor1 = – | tenfor1 = – | best bowling1 = – | catches/stumpings1 = 9/– | column2 = [[One Day International|ODIs]] | matches2 = 37 | runs2 = 599 | bat avg2 = 23.96 | 100s/50s2 = 0/2 | top score2 = 65 | deliveries2 = 0 | wickets2 = – | bowl avg2 = – | fivefor2 = – | tenfor2 = – | best bowling2 = – | catches/stumpings2 = 8/– | column3 = [[First-class cricket|FC]] | matches3 = 105 | runs3 = 5,945 | bat avg3 = 37.86 | 100s/50s3 = 17/25 | top score3 = 183 | deliveries3 = 0 | wickets3 = – | bowl avg3 = – | fivefor3 = – | tenfor3 = – | best bowling3 = – | catches/stumpings3 = 66/– | column4 = [[List A cricket|LA]] | matches4 = 101 | runs4 = 2,074 | bat avg4 = 28.02 | 100s/50s4 = 1/10 | top score4 = 111 | deliveries4 = 13 | wickets4 = 0 | bowl avg4 = – | fivefor4 = 0 | tenfor4 = 0 | best bowling4 = 0/0 | catches/stumpings4 = 27/– | date = 21 October | year = 2010 | source = https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/2/2130/2130.html Cricket Archive }}

'''Roland Irwin Christopher Holder''' (born 22 December 1967) is a cricketer, born in [[Port of Spain]], [[Trinidad]] who played the majority of his first class cricket for [[Barbados national cricket team|Barbados]]. He made his debut for Barbados in 1986 while still a schoolboy at [[Combermere School]],<ref name="content-uk.cricinfo.com">[http://content-uk.cricinfo.com/ci/content/story/115599.html] "Holder to lead Windies B", 17 January 2002. Accessed from ''Cricinfo'' on 21 March 2007.</ref> and played through to the 2000/01 season. He also played 11 [[Test cricket|Tests]] and 37 [[One Day International]]s for the [[West Indies cricket team|West Indies]], between 1993 and 1999, making his Test debut against [[Indian cricket team|India]] at [[Sabina Park]], [[Jamaica]] in 1997.

He captained Barbados from 1992 to 94 and in 1999, leading them to victory in the [[Busta Cup]] in the latter season, but was left out of the 38-man training squad for the 2001/02 season.<ref>[http://content-uk.cricinfo.com/ci/content/story/95899.html] "End of the road for Holder?", Haydn Gill, 4 August 2001. Accessed from ''Cricinfo'' on 21 March 2007.</ref> Instead, he was selected to lead the 'West Indies B' squad in the Busta Cup.<ref name="content-uk.cricinfo.com" />

In 2004, Holder was appointed manager to the Barbados cricket team, having spent a number of years as a senior member of the [[West Indies Players' Association]].<ref>[http://content-uk.cricinfo.com/ci/content/story/136005.html] Roland Holder steps down as secretary of WIPA, 18 December 2004. Accessed from Cricinfo.com on 21 March 2007.</ref>

==First Class career== In a 16-year career spanning from 1986 to 2002, he compiled 5945 runs in 105 games at an average of 37.86.

==International career== Holder made his Test debut against India at Sabina Park in 1997, scoring 21 and 17 [[not out]] in a drawn game. He followed that with 91 in the next Test in Trinidad, helping West Indies recover from 169 for six to 296 all out in the first innings. Despite his promising start, he would cross 50 just once more in his next 14 innings before being dropped in 1999.

In ODIs, his best performance was a 48-ball 65 in a losing cause against New Zealand in Trinidad in 1996.

== Notes and references == <references />

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