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Jason Holder reached a special milestone in his outstanding career today when he became the 14th West Indian bowler to take 150 Test wickets. Making his 61st Test appearance, Holder claimed the wicket of Keegan Pietersen with his first ball South Africa’s second innings to reach the landmark. It was the final ball of the second day’s play as West Indies worked their way back into the first Test match at SuperSports Park.
With this performance Holder joined an elite group of top-class cricketers to score over 2500 runs and capture over 150 wickets. He becomes only the second West Indian to reach this “double”. The other is the greatest allrounder of all time Sir Garfield Sobers, who scores 8,032 runs and took 235 wickets in his amazing career of 93 T
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Cricket West Indies (CWI) governs cricket across the West Indies, a confederation of Caribbean countries. Originally established as the West Indies Cricket Board of Control in the 1920s, it became the West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) in 1996 and was rebranded as Cricket West Indies in May 2017 as part of a restructuring effort.
