LONDON: Jason Holder has become the primary West Indian since cricket great Garfield Sobers to be named as the arena's leading all-rounder following his superb display towards England in Barbados.
West Indies captain Holder struck a commanding 202 now not out and likewise took two helpful first-innings wickets on his Kensington Oval house flooring in Bridgetown, Barbados to help his facet whole a crushing 381-run win over England in the first Test.
Victory, secured with greater than a day to spare, put the West Indies 1-0 up in a three-Test sequence.
The towering Holder's man-of-the-match display noticed him pass forward of Bangladesh's Shakib-al-Hasan and India's Ravindra Jadeja in the International Cricket Council's all-rounder ratings, with England's Ben Stokes nonetheless in fourth place.
Although the ratings, which purpose to bear in mind the standard of the opposition in addition to a participant's uncooked figures, did not exist when Sobers was nonetheless enjoying, they've since been applied retrospectively to generations of former cricketers.
Under that device Sobers -- broadly thought to be to be the most productive participant cricket has identified -- closing crowned the ratings in 1974, the 12 months of his retirement.
Sobers made a cap presentation just prior to the primary Test started, with the 82-year-old witnessing the spectacular display of Holder, a fellow Bajan.
Meanwhile West Indies chief executive Johnny Grave criticised what he mentioned was a lack of recognize proven to his facet via former England captains Geoffrey Boycott and Andrew Flintoff.
Boycott, in a pre-series newspaper column, labelled the West Indies as "very ordinary, very average cricketers" whilst Flintoff, like Holder a pace-bowling all-rounder, tweeted his disbelief at the Caribbean skipper's double century.
Grave, an Englishman who made his recognition in cricket administration with Surrey and the Professional Cricketers' Association, was decidedly unimpressed.
"Former players have said some stuff I think is unwarranted and borderline disrespectful," Grave told BBC Radio's Test Match Special.
"I noticed Andrew Flintoff say he cannot consider Jason Holder got a double hundred, yet I think Jason Holder is an unbelievable cricketer and has been appearing so superbly over the last 18 months -- an excellent captain.
"Criticism of our players and suggestions that they're now not world-class is unfair. It doesn't seem to occur when England play different opposition. I think it is unwarranted and now not true.
"I'm hoping everyone gets to see that in the next few weeks of this series."
West Indies captain Holder struck a commanding 202 now not out and likewise took two helpful first-innings wickets on his Kensington Oval house flooring in Bridgetown, Barbados to help his facet whole a crushing 381-run win over England in the first Test.
Victory, secured with greater than a day to spare, put the West Indies 1-0 up in a three-Test sequence.
The towering Holder's man-of-the-match display noticed him pass forward of Bangladesh's Shakib-al-Hasan and India's Ravindra Jadeja in the International Cricket Council's all-rounder ratings, with England's Ben Stokes nonetheless in fourth place.
Although the ratings, which purpose to bear in mind the standard of the opposition in addition to a participant's uncooked figures, did not exist when Sobers was nonetheless enjoying, they've since been applied retrospectively to generations of former cricketers.
Under that device Sobers -- broadly thought to be to be the most productive participant cricket has identified -- closing crowned the ratings in 1974, the 12 months of his retirement.
Sobers made a cap presentation just prior to the primary Test started, with the 82-year-old witnessing the spectacular display of Holder, a fellow Bajan.
Meanwhile West Indies chief executive Johnny Grave criticised what he mentioned was a lack of recognize proven to his facet via former England captains Geoffrey Boycott and Andrew Flintoff.
Boycott, in a pre-series newspaper column, labelled the West Indies as "very ordinary, very average cricketers" whilst Flintoff, like Holder a pace-bowling all-rounder, tweeted his disbelief at the Caribbean skipper's double century.
Grave, an Englishman who made his recognition in cricket administration with Surrey and the Professional Cricketers' Association, was decidedly unimpressed.
"Former players have said some stuff I think is unwarranted and borderline disrespectful," Grave told BBC Radio's Test Match Special.
"I noticed Andrew Flintoff say he cannot consider Jason Holder got a double hundred, yet I think Jason Holder is an unbelievable cricketer and has been appearing so superbly over the last 18 months -- an excellent captain.
"Criticism of our players and suggestions that they're now not world-class is unfair. It doesn't seem to occur when England play different opposition. I think it is unwarranted and now not true.
"I'm hoping everyone gets to see that in the next few weeks of this series."
Holder first WI all-rounder since Sobers to top ICC rankings
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