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Full name Runako Shakur Morton
Born July 22, 1978, Nevis
Current age 30 years 136 days
Major teams West Indies,Leeward Islands,Nevis
Playing role Batsman
Batting style Right-hand bat
Bowling style Right-arm medium, Right-arm offbreak
Batting and fielding averages
Mat
Inns
NO
Runs
HS
Ave
BF
SR
100
50
4s
6s
Ct
St
Tests
15
27
1
573
70*
22.03
1192
48.07
0
4
79
7
20
0
ODIs
49
44
4
1330
110*
33.25
2017
65.93
2
9
110
13
17
0
T20Is
5
5
1
56
20
14.00
61
91.80
0
0
5
2
1
0
First-class
77
129
8
4494
201
37.14
10
28
91
0
List A
111
105
15
3446
126
38.28
5
23
45
0
Twenty20
8
8
1
102
36
14.57
104
98.07
0
0
8
3
1
0
Bowling averages
Mat
Inns
Balls
Runs
Wkts
BBI
BBM
Ave
Econ
SR
4w
5w
10
Tests
15
5
66
50
0
-
-
-
4.54
-
0
0
0
ODIs
49
1
6
2
0
-
-
-
2.00
-
0
0
0
T20Is
5
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
First-class
77
467
289
8
3/17
36.12
3.71
58.3
0
0
List A
111
210
254
8
2/35
2/35
31.75
7.25
26.2
0
0
0
Twenty20
8
1
6
4
0
-
-
-
4.00
-
0
0
0
Career statistics
Test debut
Sri Lanka v West Indies at Colombo (SSC), Jul 13-16, 2005 scorecard
Last Test
West Indies v Australia at North Sound, May 30-Jun 3, 2008 scorecard
Test statistics
ODI debut
Pakistan v West Indies at Sharjah, Feb 15, 2002 scorecard
Last ODI
West Indies v Sri Lanka at Gros Islet, Apr 15, 2008 scorecard
ODI statistics
T20I debut
New Zealand v West Indies at Auckland, Feb 16, 2006 scorecard
Last T20I
South Africa v West Indies at Johannesburg, Jan 18, 2008 scorecard
T20I statistics
First-class debut
1996/97
Last First-class
West Indies v Australia at North Sound, May 30-Jun 3, 2008 scorecard
List A debut
1997/98
Last List A
Barbados v Leeward Islands at Providence, Nov 22, 2008 scorecard
Twenty20 debut
New Zealand v West Indies at Auckland, Feb 16, 2006 scorecard
Last Twenty20
Jamaica v Nevis at Coolidge, Feb 16, 2008 scorecard
Profile
Fiery on and off the pitch, Runako Morton's cricket career looked to be dead in the water when he was expelled from the West Indian Academy in July 2001, for a series of regulation breaches. He refused to be bowed, however, and continued to accumulate runs for Leeward Islands in the Busta Cup. In February 2002, his penance complete, he was called into an injury-plagued West Indian squad as a replacement for Marlon Samuels, and was tipped to become one of the few Test cricketers from tiny island of Nevis. But he threw away his opportunity when he pulled out of the ICC Champions Trophy in September 2002, after lying about the death of his grandmother. His career slipped further down the pan when he was arrested in January 2004, following a stabbing incident, but in May 2005, he was given a third chance at redemption when he was recalled to the one-day squad to face South Africa although he didn't get a game. He got his chance later that month against Pakistan at home, and was then picked for the 2005-06 tour to New Zealand, where he proved his worth with a fighting century - his maiden one-day hundred - in a losing cause. He followed it up with another ton, in the away series against Zimbabwe, but soon made it into the record books for his painstaking 31-ball duck in the final of the DLF Cup against Australia in Malaysia. It was the slowest ODI duck, beating Phil Simmons's earlier record that had consumed 23 balls. It certainly got his eye in, however, as Morton made an unbeaten 90 in his next meeting with the Australians, in the Champions Trophy. From that moment on, however, his form fell away, and he was omitted from the West Indian squad for the subsequent World Cup. He won a recall for the tour of England in 2007 and then beat up on Zimbabwe in a lopsided ODI series, but was left out of the Test side to take on Sri Lanka after a disappointing series in South Africa. Andrew Miller May 2008
