Ridley Jacobs
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| Batting style | Left hand bat | |
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| Bowling type | N/A (wicket keeper) | |
| Tests | ODIs | |
| Matches | 65 | 147 |
| Runs scored | 2577 | 1865 |
| Batting average | 28.31 | 23.31 |
| 100s/50s | 3/14 | 0/19 |
| Top score | 118 | 80* |
| Overs bowled | 0 | 0 |
| Wickets | 0 | 0 |
| Bowling average | n/a | 0 |
| 5 wickets in innings | 0 | 0 |
| 10 wickets in match | 0 | n/a |
| Best bowling | n/a | 0 |
| Catches/stumpings | 207/12 | 160/0 |
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Ridley Detamore Jacobs (26 November 1967, Swetes Village, Antigua), is a left-handed batsman who was a regular fixture in the West Indian cricket team in the 1990s and 2000s. He made his Test match debut on his 31st birthday, yet played a total of 65 Tests in six years, becoming a regular wicket-keeper. In this time he took over 200 catches behind the stumps, making him only the second West Indies keeper to achieve the feat (after Jeff Dujon). This is the 9th highest number of Test dismissals by a wicket keeper. He also played 147 ODIs. However, he was gradually pushed out of the team during 2004 and 2005, with Courtney Browne and Carlton Baugh, Jr. challenging for his position.
He also featured in an outstanding partneship in the record breaking innings of Brian Lara against England in which Jacobs made a century, and Lara made 400 not out.
| Preceded by Carl Hooper |
West Indies Test cricket captains 2002/3 |
Succeeded by Brian Lara |
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West Indies squad - 2003 Cricket World Cup | |
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1 Hooper | 2 Jacobs | 3 Chanderpaul | 4 Collins | 5 Collymore | 6 Dillon | 7 Drakes | 8 Gayle | 9 Hinds | 10 Lara | 11 Lawson | 12 McLean | 13 Powell | 14 Samuels | 15 Sarwan | Coach: Harper |
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