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Full name Roger Andrew Harper
Born March 17, 1963, Georgetown, Demerara, British Guiana
Current age 45 years 249 days
Major teams West Indies,Guyana,Northamptonshire
Nickname Juice
Batting style Right-hand bat
Bowling style Right-arm offbreak
Other Coach
Height
6 ft 5 in
Education Queen's College High School, Georgetown
Relations Brother - MA Harper
Batting and fielding averages
Mat
Inns
NO
Runs
HS
Ave
BF
SR
100
50
4s
6s
Ct
St
Tests
25
32
3
535
74
18.44
0
3
52
9
36
0
ODIs
105
73
20
855
45*
16.13
1162
73.58
0
0
53
18
55
0
First-class
200
263
43
7480
234
34.00
10
36
262
0
List A
214
165
44
2650
69*
21.90
0
6
120
0
Bowling averages
Mat
Inns
Balls
Runs
Wkts
BBI
BBM
Ave
Econ
SR
4w
5w
10
Tests
25
39
3615
1291
46
6/57
6/90
28.06
2.14
78.5
2
1
0
ODIs
105
99
5175
3431
100
4/40
4/40
34.31
3.97
51.7
3
0
0
First-class
200
37825
14726
567
6/24
25.97
2.33
66.7
28
3
List A
214
10403
6466
210
5/37
5/37
30.79
3.72
49.5
7
1
0
Career statistics
Test debut
India v West Indies at Kolkata, Dec 10-14, 1983 scorecard
Last Test
Sri Lanka v West Indies at Moratuwa, Dec 8-13, 1993 scorecard
Test statistics
ODI debut
India v West Indies at Srinagar, Oct 13, 1983 scorecard
Last ODI
West Indies v Sri Lanka at Port of Spain, Apr 13, 1996 scorecard
ODI statistics
First-class span
1979/80 - 1996/97
List A span
1979/80 - 1996/97
Profile
The outfield at the Demerara Cricket Club is rough and bumpy. Hardly the place to nurture great fielders, you might think. But in the pavilion there hangs a portrait of Roger Harper, who learned his trade there as one of the game's finest. Graham Gooch remembers him all too well. Batting for MCC against the World XI in the festival MCC Bicentenary match at Lord's in 1987, Gooch had passed 100 when he drilled Harper's offspin just to the on side of straight and took some anticipatory paces down the pitch. It was not a clever move. Harper took one stride to his right, his right arm telescoped and plucked the ball cleanly from the turf. In the same flowing movement he threw down Gooch's middle stump with the batsman upended on all fours. Harper was not a great offspinner - he suffered in later years from the yips - and little more than an adequate hard-hitting batsman. But his fielding was fabulous. After retirement he went into coaching, taking charge of West Indies between 2000 and 2003 during a period of transition. He was appointed as the U-19 coach in December 2005, but quit after a month to take charge of the Kenyan national side where he rebuilt a squad that was close to a shambles when he arrived. He stood down from that role in September 2007 as the job took him away from his home in Guyana for too long.
Martin Williamson
