{{short description|West Indian cricketer}} {{EngvarB|date=August 2013}} {{Use dmy dates|date=December 2021}} {{Infobox cricketer | name = Vasbert Drakes | image = | country = West Indies | fullname = Vasbert Conniel Drakes | birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1969|8|5|df=yes}} | birth_place = Springhead, [[Saint Andrew, Barbados]] | nickname = | heightft = | heightinch = | heightm = | batting = Right-handed | bowling = Right-arm fast | role = All rounder | family = [[Dominic Drakes]] (son) | international = true | internationalspan = 1995–2004 | testdebutdate = 8 December | testdebutyear = 2002 | testdebutagainst = Bangladesh | testcap = 246 | lasttestdate = 16 January | lasttestyear = 2004 | lasttestagainst = South Africa | odidebutdate = 8 March | odidebutyear = 1995 | odidebutagainst = Australia | odicap = 72 | lastodidate = 25 January | lastodiyear = 2004 | lastodiagainst = South Africa | club1 = [[Barbados national cricket team|Barbados]] | year1 = 1991–2004 | club2 = [[Sussex County Cricket Club|Sussex]] | year2 = 1996–1997 | club3 = [[Border cricket team|Border]] | year3 = 1996–2003 | club4 = [[Nottinghamshire County Cricket Club|Nottinghamshire]] | year4 = 1999 | club5 = [[Warwickshire County Cricket Club|Warwickshire]] | year5 = 2001 | club6 = [[Leicestershire County Cricket Club|Leicestershire]] | year6 = 2003 | columns = 4 | column1 = [[Test cricket|Test]] | matches1 = 12 | runs1 = 386 | bat avg1 = 21.44 | 100s/50s1 = 0/1 | top score1 = 67 | deliveries1 = 2,617 | wickets1 = 33 | bowl avg1 = 41.27 | fivefor1 = 1 | tenfor1 = 0 | best bowling1 = 5/93 | catches/stumpings1 = 2/– | column2 = [[One Day International|ODI]] | matches2 = 34 | runs2 = 94 | bat avg2 = 7.83 | 100s/50s2 = 0/0 | top score2 = 25 | deliveries2 = 1,640 | wickets2 = 51 | bowl avg2 = 25.35 | fivefor2 = 2 | tenfor2 = 0 | best bowling2 = 5/33 | catches/stumpings2 = 5/– | column3 = [[First-class cricket|FC]] | matches3 = 164 | runs3 = 4,774 | bat avg3 = 21.12 | 100s/50s3 = 4/17 | top score3 = 180* | deliveries3 = 31,528 | wickets3 = 614 | bowl avg3 = 26.16 | fivefor3 = 28 | tenfor3 = 3 | best bowling3 = 8/59 | catches/stumpings3 = 53/– | column4 = [[List A cricket|LA]] | matches4 = 217 | runs4 = 1,787 | bat avg4 = 15.40 | 100s/50s4 = 1/1 | top score4 = 104 | deliveries4 = 10,447 | wickets4 = 279 | bowl avg4 = 26.10 | fivefor4 = 4 | tenfor4 = 0 | best bowling4 = 5/19 | catches/stumpings4 = 36/– | date = 21 September | year = 2017 | source = https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/2/2193/2193.html Cricket Archive }}
'''Vasbert Conniel Drakes''' (born 5 August 1969) is a former [[West Indies|West Indian]] [[cricket]]er, who played Tests and ODIs. He was a right-arm fast bowler and handy right-hand lower order batsman.
Drakes featured for [[Sussex County Cricket Club|Sussex]], [[Nottinghamshire County Cricket Club|Nottinghamshire]], [[Warwickshire County Cricket Club|Warwickshire]], [[Leicestershire County Cricket Club|Leicestershire]] and [[Border cricket team|Border]] in his cricketing career. He also coached the [[United Arab Emirates national cricket team|UAE]], [[Barbados cricket team|Barbados]] and the [[West Indies women's cricket team]]. 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]].<ref>[http://www.thehindu.com/sport/cricket/world-cup/live-cricket-scores-world-t20-finals-west-indies-women-versus-australia-women/article8429070.ece Women World T20 finals: Australia wins toss, elects to bat]</ref><ref>[http://www.thehindu.com/sport/cricket/world-cup/favourite-australia-faces-a-determined-west-indies/article8427002.ece Favourite Australia faces a determined West Indies]</ref><ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.barbadostoday.bb/2016/04/05/champions-return/ |title=QUEENS OF TWENTY20 CRICKET GET ROYAL WELCOME |access-date=20 April 2016 |archive-date=11 May 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160511132642/http://www.barbadostoday.bb/2016/04/05/champions-return/ |url-status=dead }}</ref>
==International career== Drakes made his international debut in 1994–95, when he played 5 ODI games against [[Australia cricket team]], followed by a tour of [[England]]. He 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]].
He took the wicket of [[Jacques Kallis]] in his first international over for seven years. He went on to make his test debut, on 8 December 2002, against [[Bangladesh cricket team|Bangladesh]] at [[Dhaka]]'s [[Bangabandhu National Stadium]].<ref>[http://www.espncricinfo.com/magazine/content/story/995585.html The loneliness of the West Indian fast bowler]</ref><ref>[http://www.espncricinfo.com/magazine/content/story/134789.html The Friday Column April 30, 2004 Capitalising on chances, and Vaas the minnow-basher]</ref> Drakes then took 5 wickets against Australia in the first test of the 2003 Frank Worrel Trophy series played at [[Bourda]]. This was his first and only five wicket haul in test match cricket. With the bat he scored a notable unbeaten 27 which helped the Windies to chase down a world-record target of 418, set by [[Australia cricket team]] in the fourth test of the series played at the [[Antigua Recreation Ground]]. He later made 67 in a test match played in and against South Africa. This was his first and only half century in international cricket.
Drakes also featured in the [[2003 ICC World Cup]] where he took a spectacular diving catch in a game against [[Canada cricket team|Canada]]. He eventually picked up a sum of 51 wickets at an average of 25.35 with two five wicket hauls in his ODI career.
==Domestic career== Drakes played county cricket for English sides [[Sussex County Cricket Club|Sussex]], [[Nottinghamshire County Cricket Club|Nottinghamshire]], [[Warwickshire County Cricket Club|Warwickshire]] and [[Leicestershire County Cricket Club|Leicestershire]]. He scored two centuries for Sussex and picked up 80 wickets in his first and only season with Nottinghamshire. He also featured for South African club [[Border cricket team|Border]], with Drakes twice being named, in 1999 and 2000, as one of the South African Cricketers of the Year.<ref name=Nottinghamshire /><ref>{{cite web|url=https://sportstar.thehindu.com/magazine/better-late-than-never/article29637816.ece|title=Better late than never|date=21 December 2002|author=[[Tony Cozier|Cozier, Tony]]|publisher=[[The Hindu]]|website=thehindu.com}}</ref><ref name=CricketCountry /><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.espn.com/cricket/story/_/id/23226170/hayward-named-cricketers-year|title=Hayward named among Cricketers of the Year|author=Robinson, Peter|date=4 October 2000|publisher=[[ESPN Cricinfo]]|website=espn.com}}</ref>
Drakes is also one of only six batsmen in the history of [[first-class cricket]] to be given out [[timed out]]. As he wasn't in the country at the time, his flight to South Africa, to attend a match played between Border and [[Free State cricket team|Free State]], had been delayed by several hours.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.cricinfo.com/magazine/content/story/255076.html|title=Strauss's rare feat, and Jayasuriya's unique one|work=[[CricInfo]]|publisher=[[ESPN]]|first=Steven|last=Lynch|date=31 July 2006|access-date=1 September 2011}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.espncricinfo.com/magazine/content/story/258594.html|title=Disappearing acts|author=Pittard, Steve|date=5 September 2006|publisher=[[Cricinfo]]|website=cricinfo.com}}</ref>
== Coaching career == After his cricketing career, Drakes was appointed coach of [[United Arab Emirates national cricket team]] for a three-month period that included the [[2008 Asia Cup]] and [[2008 ACC Trophy Elite]]. Then he took over coaching for [[Barbados cricket team]].<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.thenationalnews.com/sport/drakes-is-gone-not-forgotten-1.551356/ | title=Drakes is gone, not forgotten | work=[[The National (Abu Dhabi)|The National]]|location=Abu Dhabi | date=20 August 2008 | access-date=20 December 2019 | author=Radley, Paul }}</ref><ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.cricketworld.com/vasbert-drakes-appointed-coach-of-uae/15492.htm | title=Vasbert Drakes Appointed Coach of UAE | work=Cricket World | date=29 April 2008 | access-date=20 December 2019}}</ref> He was also briefly the coach of [[Queen's Park Cricket Club]].<ref>[http://www.espncricinfo.com/westindies/content/story/231493.html Drakes calls for better facilities]</ref>
In April 2015, Drakes was named head coach of [[West Indies women's cricket team]].<ref name=Nottinghamshire>{{cite web|url=https://www.trentbridge.co.uk/trentbridge/history/players/vasbert-drakes.html|title=Vasbert Drakes|publisher=[[Nottinghamshire County Cricket Club]]|website=trentbridge.co.uk}}</ref><ref name=CricketCountry>{{cite web|url=https://www.cricketcountry.com/articles/vasbert-drakes-11-facts-about-the-barbadian-all-rounder-who-made-a-stunning-comeback-at-33-506701|title=Vasbert Drakes: 11 facts about the Barbadian all-rounder who made a stunning comeback at 33|author=Mustafi, Suvajit|date=5 August 2017|publisher=Cricket Country|website=cricketcountry.com}}</ref> He led the [[West Indies women's cricket team]] to their first major title by winning the [[2016 ICC Women's World Twenty20]] in [[India]].<ref>[http://www.thehindu.com/sport/cricket/world-cup/live-cricket-scores-world-t20-finals-west-indies-women-versus-australia-women/article8429070.ece Women World T20 finals: Australia wins toss, elects to bat]</ref><ref>[http://www.thehindu.com/sport/cricket/world-cup/favourite-australia-faces-a-determined-west-indies/article8427002.ece Favourite Australia faces a determined West Indies]</ref><ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.barbadostoday.bb/2016/04/05/champions-return/ |title=QUEENS OF TWENTY20 CRICKET GET ROYAL WELCOME |access-date=20 April 2016 |archive-date=11 May 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160511132642/http://www.barbadostoday.bb/2016/04/05/champions-return/ |url-status=dead }}</ref>
==Personal life== Drakes's son, [[Dominic Drakes]] is also a [[cricketer]] who's a left arm [[Seam bowling|seamer]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://barbadostoday.bb/2021/09/15/drakes-the-hero/|title=Drakes the hero|date=15 September 2021|publisher=Barbados Today|website=barbadostoday.bb}}</ref>
==References== {{reflist}}
==External links == * [http://www.espncricinfo.com/westindies/content/player/51655.html Cricinfo]
{{West Indies Squad 2003 Cricket World Cup}} {{West Indies Squad 2016 ICC Women's World Twenty20}} {{Authority control}}
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