About Patrick Patterson (cricketer)
Balfour Patrick Patterson is a former fast bowler for the West Indies cricket team in the mid-1980s to early 1990s. He is remarkable in that, in an era when the West Indies dominated world cricket through strength of fast bowling, and produced a galaxy of fast bowling stars, he is frequently acknowledged as the fastest of those that played. The West Indies wicket keeper Jeff Dujon, who kept wicket to all of them, stated that Patterson was the quickest he had kept wickets to. Patterson returned figures of 5/24 in the first Test of the 1987/8 series against India, bowling them out in 30.3 overs, or little over one session of play on the first day. He was dropped for disciplinary reasons after the 1992/93 tour of Australia, the last time the West Indies won a series in Australia.
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