Ridley Jacobs

Ridley Detamore Jacobs (26 November 1967, Swetes, 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, playing in 65 Tests in six years. 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.

Jacobs jointly holds the world record for taking seven catches in a test innings, which he achieved against Australia in Melbourne in 2000. He also featured in an outstanding partnership in the record breaking innings of Brian Lara against England in which Jacobs made a hundred and Lara made 400 not out.

Preceded by
Carl Hooper		 West Indies Test cricket captains
2002/3		 Succeeded by
Brian Lara
West Indies Test cricket captains
  • 1928; 1929/30: Nunes
  • 1929/30: Hoad
  • 1929/30: Betancourt
  • 1929/30: Fernandes
  • 1930/31–1934/35: J. Grant
  • 1939: R. Grant
  • 1947/48: Headley
  • 1947/48: Gomez
  • 1947/48–1957: Goddard
  • 1951/52; 1952/53–1953/54; 1954/55: Stollmeyer
  • 1954/55–1955/56: Atkinson
  • 1957/58–1959/60: Alexander
  • 1960/61–1963: Worrell
  • 1964/65–1971/72: Sobers
  • 1972/73–1973/74: Kanhai
  • 1974/75–1976/77; 1977/78; 1979/80–1984/85: Lloyd
  • 1977/78–1978/79: Kallicharran
  • 1979/80: Murray
  • 1980; 1983/84–1991: Richards
  • 1987/88: Greenidge
  • 1989/90; 1990/91: Haynes
  • 1991/92–1995: Richardson
  • 1993/94; 1994/95–1997/98: Walsh
  • 1996/97; 1997/98–2006/07: Lara
  • 1999/00–2000/01: Adams
  • 2000/01–2002/03: Hooper
  • 2002/03: Jacbos
  • 2004/05–2005/06: Chanderpaul
  • 2007–2008: Sarwan
  • 2007: Ganga
  • 2007/08; 2008; 2008/09–2010: Gayle
  • 2007/08: Bravo
  • 2009: Reifer
  • 2010/11–: Sammy
West Indies ODI cricket captains
  • 1973: Kanhai
  • 1975–1984/85: Lloyd
  • 1977/78–1979/80: Murray
  • 1977/78: Kallicharran
  • 1980–1991: Richards
  • 1983/84: Holding
  • 1987/88–1988/89: Greenidge
  • 1989/90–1993/94: Haynes
  • 1989/90: Dujon
  • 1991/92–1995/96: Richardson
  • 1994/95–1997/98: Walsh
  • 1994/95–2006/07: Lara
  • 1996/97–2002/03: Hooper
  • 1998/99–2000/01: Adams
  • 2000/01: Campbell
  • 2002/03: Jacobs
  • 2003/04–2004: Sarwan
  • 2004/05–2005/06: Chanderpaul
  • 2005: Joseph
  • 2006/07–2010/11: Gayle
  • 2007/08: Bravo
  • 2009: Reifer
  • 2010–: Sammy
  • 2011/12: Ramdin
West Indies squad – 1999 Cricket World Cup
  • Lara (c)
  • Chanderpaul
  • Powell
  • Williams
  • Campbell
  • Arthurton
  • Jacobs (wk)
  • Simmons
  • Ambrose
  • Walsh
  • Adams
  • Bryan
  • Dillon
  • Perry
  • King
West Indies squad – 2003 Cricket World Cup
  • Hooper(c)
  • Jacobs
  • Chanderpaul
  • Collins
  • Collymore
  • Dillon
  • Drakes
  • Gayle
  • Hinds
  • Lara
  • Lawson
  • McLean
  • Powell
  • Samuels
  • Sarwan
  • Harper
Persondata
Name Jacobs, Ridley
Alternative names
Short description West Indian cricketer
Date of birth 26 November 1967
Place of birth Swetes Village
Date of death
Place of death

Famous quotes containing the words ridley and/or jacobs:

    “They don’t advertise for killers in the newspaper. That was my profession. Ex-cop. Ex- blade runner. Ex-killer.”
    —David Webb Peoples, U.S. screenwriter, and Ridley Scott. Rick Deckard, Blade Runner, reading the newspaper—his opening lines (1982)

    “Artists, whatever their medium, make selections from the abounding materials of life, and organize these selections into works that are under the control of the artist.... In relation to the inclusiveness and literally endless intricacy of life, art is arbitrary, symbolic and abstracted. That is its value and the source of its own kind of order and coherence.”
    —Jane Jacobs (b. 1916)