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Full name Mervyn Dillon
Born June 5, 1974, Mission Village, Toco, Trinidad
Current age 34 years 129 days
Major teams West Indies,Trinidad,Trinidad & Tobago
Playing role Bowler
Batting style Right-hand bat
Bowling style Right-arm fast-medium
Batting and fielding averages
Mat
Inns
NO
Runs
HS
Ave
BF
SR
100
50
4s
6s
Ct
St
Tests
38
68
3
549
43
8.44
1381
39.75
0
0
76
7
16
0
ODIs
108
51
20
227
21*
7.32
411
55.23
0
0
11
3
20
0
First-class
91
143
16
1052
52
8.28
0
1
35
0
List A
161
83
29
459
41
8.50
0
0
35
0
Twenty20
8
2
1
9
8*
9.00
9
100.00
0
0
1
0
3
0
Bowling averages
Mat
Inns
Balls
Runs
Wkts
BBI
BBM
Ave
Econ
SR
4w
5w
10
Tests
38
66
8704
4398
131
5/71
8/123
33.57
3.03
66.4
7
2
0
ODIs
108
107
5480
4218
130
5/29
5/29
32.44
4.61
42.1
3
3
0
First-class
91
17001
8500
291
6/40
29.20
2.99
58.4
7
0
List A
161
7918
5713
188
5/29
5/29
30.38
4.32
42.1
6
3
0
Twenty20
8
7
126
136
6
3/30
3/30
22.66
6.47
21.0
0
0
0
Career statistics
Test debut
West Indies v India at Port of Spain, Mar 14-18, 1997 scorecard
Last Test
South Africa v West Indies at Centurion, Jan 16-20, 2004 scorecard
Test statistics
ODI debut
South Africa v West Indies at Lahore, Nov 3, 1997 scorecard
Last ODI
Australia v West Indies at Adelaide, Jan 26, 2005 scorecard
ODI statistics
First-class debut
1996/97
Last First-class
Jamaica v Trinidad & Tobago at Kingston, Apr 24-26, 2008 scorecard
List A debut
1996/97
Last List A
Jamaica v Trinidad & Tobago at Bridgetown, Oct 28, 2007 scorecard
Twenty20 debut
Cayman Islands v Trinidad & Tobago at Coolidge, Jul 25, 2006 scorecard
Last Twenty20
Barbados v Trinidad & Tobago at Coolidge, Feb 22, 2008 scorecard
Profile
Mervyn Dillon has long been labelled as the natural successor to Courtney Walsh. His action has a hint of the same well-oiled efficiency, and he takes a high percentage of wickets with the ball that angles in then just holds its own. But Dillon has neither the deceptive pace of the young Walsh nor the matchless craft of the later model. He remains an adequate stock bowler who, in another era, would hardly qualify for the new ball. Nevertheless, he did everything that was asked of him during West Indies' series victory over India in 2001-02, leading the attack with a rarely-witnessed passion, and bowling his side to victory at Bridgetown and Kingston. His bowling fell away after that, and the emergence of a number of younger, quicker bowlers meant that Dillon's place was no longer secure. He was left out after the series in South Africa in 2003-04, but made it into the Champions Trophy squad, and took a career-best 5 for 29 against Bangladesh at the Rose Bowl, although injury ruled him out of the rest of the tournament. Simon Briggs (September 2004)
