Colin Ellsworth Laurie Stuart (born 28 September 1973) is a Guyanese
cricket
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er, who has played for the
West Indies
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.
In six
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, Stuart, who was a right-hand batsman, had a batting average of 3.42 average, and as a right-arm, medium-fast bowler, has taken 20 wickets with a 31.39 average.
Stuart took part in the only instance in
Test cricket
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history, when three bowlers were used in completing one over. In 2001, playing against the hosts,
Sri Lanka
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at the
Asgiriya Stadium
Asgiriya Stadium, ( si, අස්ගිරිය ක්රීඩාංගනය) is a cricket stadium situated in Kandy, Sri Lanka. Asgiriya Stadium is the private property of Trinity College, Kandy. It is around a 10-minute walk from the cen ...
in
Kandy
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,
Mervyn Dillon
Mervyn Dillon (born 5 June 1974), is a former West Indian cricketer. He has played 38 in Tests and taken 131 wickets. He has also played 108 One Day Internationals from 1997–2004.
He has the unwanted record of most ducks ever in a calendar y ...
contracted abdominal pains after bowling two balls of his third over. Stuart replaced him, only to be banned from bowling for the remainder of Sri Lanka's innings, by the
umpire
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,
John Hampshire
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, after delivering two high, fast full-tosses (called as
no-ball
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s) in his first three balls.
Chris Gayle
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then bowled the final three legitimate deliveries of the over.
References
1973 births
Living people
Guyanese cricketers
Cricketers from Georgetown, Guyana
West Indies One Day International cricketers
West Indies Test cricketers
Guyana cricketers
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