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{{short description|Jamaican cricketer}}
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{{Infobox cricketer
| name        = Courtney Walsh
| image       = 
Courtney Walsh.jpg
| caption     = Courtney Walsh in 2018
| country     = West Indies
| fullname    = Courtney Andrew Walsh
| birth_date  = {{Birth date and age|1962|10|30|df=yes}}
| birth_place = [[Kingston, Jamaica]]
| heightcm    = 198<ref name="6_6">{{cite web|url=http://www.espncricinfo.com/ci/content/story/75865.html|title=D Green: Walsh still scaling heights (27 Jul 1998)|publisher=[[ESPNcricinfo]]|date=27 July 1998|first=David|last=Green|access-date=22 July 2014}}</ref> 
| batting     = Right-handed
| bowling     = Right-arm fast
| role        = Bowler
| international = true
| internationalspan = 1984–2001
| testdebutdate = 9 November
| testdebutyear = 1984
| testdebutagainst = Australia
| testcap = 183
| lasttestdate = 19 April
| lasttestyear = 2001
| lasttestagainst = South Africa
| odidebutdate = 10 January
| odidebutyear = 1985
| odidebutagainst = Sri Lanka
| odicap = 45
| lastodidate = 11 January
| lastodiyear = 2000
| lastodiagainst = New Zealand
| odishirt = 12, 33
| club1 = [[Jamaica national cricket team|Jamaica]]
| year1 = {{nowrap|1981/82–2000/01}}
| clubnumber1 = 
| club2 = [[Gloucestershire County Cricket Club|Gloucestershire]]
| year2 = 1984–1998
| columns = 4
| column1 = [[Test cricket|Test]]
| matches1 = 132
| runs1 = 936
| bat avg1 = 7.54
| 100s/50s1 = 0/0
| top score1 = 30[[not out|*]]
| deliveries1 = 30,019
| wickets1 = 519
| bowl avg1 = 24.44
| fivefor1 = 22
| tenfor1 = 3
| best bowling1 = 7/37
| catches/stumpings1 = 29/–
| column2 = [[One Day International|ODI]]
| matches2 = 205
| runs2 = 321
| bat avg2 = 6.97
| 100s/50s2 = 0/0
| top score2 = 30
| deliveries2 = 10,822
| wickets2 = 227
| bowl avg2 = 30.47
| fivefor2 = 1
| tenfor2 = 0
| best bowling2 = 5/1
| catches/stumpings2 = 27/–
| column3 = [[First-class cricket|FC]]
| matches3 = 429
| runs3 = 4,530
| bat avg3 = 11.32
| 100s/50s3 = 0/8
| top score3 = 66
| deliveries3 = 85,443
| wickets3 = 1,807
| bowl avg3 = 21.71
| fivefor3 = 104
| tenfor3 = 20
| best bowling3 = 9/72
| catches/stumpings3 = 117/–
| column4 = [[List A cricket|LA]]
| matches4 = 440
| runs4 = 1,304
| bat avg4 = 8.75
| 100s/50s4 = 0/0
| top score4 = 38
| deliveries4 = 21,881
| wickets4 = 551
| bowl avg4 = 25.14
| fivefor4 = 5
| tenfor4 = 0
| best bowling4 = 6/21
| catches/stumpings4 = 68/–
| date = 21 August
| year = 2008
| source = https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/1/1764/1764.html CricketArchive
}}
'''Courtney Andrew Walsh''' [[Order of Jamaica|OJ]] (born 30 October 1962) is a Jamaican former [[cricket]]er who represented the [[West Indian cricket team|West Indies]] from 1984 to 2001, captaining the team in 22 [[Test cricket|Test match]]es.<ref name="Profile">{{cite web|url=http://www.espncricinfo.com/ci/content/player/53216.html |title=Courtney Walsh |publisher=[[ESPNcricinfo]] |access-date=22 August 2013}}</ref> He played as a [[Fast bowling|fast bowler]] and is considered one of the all-time greats, best known for his opening bowling partnership with fellow [[West Indian]] [[Curtly Ambrose]] for several years. Walsh played 132 Tests and 205 ODIs for the West Indies and took 519 and 227 [[wicket]]s respectively. He shared 421 Test wickets with Ambrose in 49 matches.<ref name="1st to 500">{{cite web |last=Cricinfo staff |first=Wisden |date=30 October 2003 |title=All Today's Yesterdays – Happy birthday, Courtney |url=https://www.espncricinfo.com/story/happy-birthday-courtney-133255 |access-date=22 July 2014 |publisher=ESPNcricinfo}}</ref> He held the record of most Test [[wicket (cricket)|wickets]] from 2000, after he broke the record of [[Kapil Dev]]. This record was later broken in 2004 by [[Shane Warne]]. He was the first bowler to reach 500 wickets in Test cricket.<ref name="profile">{{cite web|url=http://www.espncricinfo.com/westindies/content/player/53216.html|title=Courtney Walsh|publisher=[[ESPNcricinfo]]|date=22 July 2014|access-date=22 July 2014}}</ref> His autobiography is entitled "Heart of the Lion". Walsh was named one of the [[Wisden Cricketers of the Year]] in 1987. In October 2010, he was inducted into the [[ICC Cricket Hall of Fame]]. He was appointed as the Specialist Bowling Coach of [[Bangladesh Cricket Team]] in August 2016.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.thedailystar.net/sports/cricket/walsh-becomes-bangladesh-bowling-coach-1278934 | title=Cricket: Courtney Walsh becomes Bangladesh bowling coach | work=The Daily Star| date=1 September 2016 | access-date=31 August 2016}}</ref>

==Early life and first-class career==
Courtney Andrew Walsh was born on 30 October 1962 in [[Kingston, Jamaica]]. He played his early cricket there with the same cricket club for which [[Michael Holding]] also played cricket—the Melbourne club. Walsh's first claim to fame came in 1979 when he took 10 wickets in an [[innings]] in school cricket, and three years later he made his [[first-class cricket]] debut.<ref name="wisden_crickeer_of_the_year">{{cite web |title=Wisden:Cricketer of the year 1987 – Courtney Walsh |url=https://www.espncricinfo.com/wisdenalmanack/content/story/154450.html |access-date=22 August 2013 |work=[[Wisden Cricketers' Almanack|Wisden]] |publisher=ESPNcricinfo}}</ref> He played 427 matches of this format between 1981 and 2001, and took 1,807 wickets at the [[bowling average|average]] of 21.71, including 104 [[five-wicket haul]]s and 20 ten-wicket hauls.<ref name="profile"/> Walsh played first-class cricket for [[Gloucestershire County Cricket Club]] (Gloucestershire CCC) from 1985 to 1998.<ref name="1st to 500"/>

Walsh played cricket for the [[West Indies cricket team|West Indies]] from 1984 to 2001, [[Gloucestershire County Cricket Club]] (Gloucestershire CCC) from 1984 to 1998, [[Jamaica cricket team]] from 1981–82 to 1999–00, Rest of the World XI in 1987 and West Indies A in 1991–92. He first played for Gloucestershire CCC in 1984 and was a mainstay of the side until 1998.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/1/1764/all_teams.html | title = Teams Courtney Walsh played for| access-date=22 August 2013 |publisher =CricketArchive}}</ref>

==International career==
Walsh made his Test debut against [[Australian cricket team|Australia]] in [[Perth]] in 1984, taking 2 wickets for 43 runs.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Scorecards/45/45339.html|title=West Indies in Australia 1984/85 (1st Test)|publisher=CricketArchive|access-date=7 September 2014}}</ref> He played six Test matches during the 1984–85 season, five against Australia in the [[West Indian cricket team in Australia in 1984–85|1984–85 series]] between the teams, and one Test against New Zealand in the home series.<ref name="test_matches">{{cite web|url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/1/1764/Test_Matches.html|title=Test Matches played by Courtney Walsh (132)|publisher=CricketArchive|access-date=7 September 2014}}</ref> He took 16 wickets in the season conceding 507 runs.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/1/1764/t_Bowling_by_Season.html|title=Test Bowling in Each Season by Courtney Walsh|publisher=CricketArchive|access-date=7 September 2014}}</ref> In the same season, Walsh also made his [[One Day International]] debut against [[Sri Lankan cricket team|Sri Lanka]] at [[Hobart]] during the [[World Series Cup]]. He took one wicket for 47 from 10 overs in the match.<ref name="seasons">{{cite web|url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Scorecards/45/45513.html|title=Benson and Hedges World Series Cup 1984/85|publisher=CricketArchive|access-date=7 September 2014}}</ref> In the next two seasons, Walsh played a match at home against England, three matches against Pakistan and three matches against New Zealand, both outside the West Indies.<ref name="test_matches"/> He took 29 wickets from seven matches in these seasons, including a five-wicket haul against New Zealand.<ref name="seasons"/> In 1987, Walsh was named as one of the [[Wisden Cricketers' Almanack|Wisden]] [[Wisden Cricketer of the Year|Cricketers of the Year]] for his performance the previous year.<ref name=wisden_crickeer_of_the_year/>

In the 1987–88 season, Walsh toured India and played four Test matches against them, taking 26 wickets at an average of 16.80.<ref name="test_matches"/><ref name="seasons"/> In the first Test of the series at [[Feroz Shah Kotla Ground]], he took six wickets for 67 runs, including five wickets for 54 runs in India's second innings.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Scorecards/49/49380.html|title=West Indies in India 1987/88 (1st Test)|publisher=CricketArchive|access-date=7 September 2014}}</ref> In the first innings of the second Test at [[Wankhede Stadium]], he repeated the same performance of five for 54.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Scorecards/49/49380.html|title=West Indies in India 1987/88 (2nd Test)|publisher=CricketArchive|access-date=7 September 2014}}</ref> In that season, Pakistan cricket team visited the West Indies and played three Tests there. In the [[1987 Cricket World Cup]] Walsh backed out to ball and run out [[Saleem Jaffar]] as he was backing up as Pakistan required two off the last ball to qualify for the semi-finals, [[Abdul Qadir (cricketer)|Abdul Qadir]] eventually scored the winning runs and West Indies lost but Walsh was deservedly feted for his sportsmanship, he even received a hand-woven carpet from a local fan. Walsh underperformed in the series, taking only four wickets from three matches. He played four matches against England in 1988, and took 12 wickets at an average of 34.33. During the West Indies tour of Australia in 1988–89, Walsh played five Tests and took 17 wickets at 29.41. His best bowling in the series came the first innings of the first match, taking four wickets for 62 runs, including a [[Hat-trick (cricket)|hat-trick]].<ref name="seasons"/> He took an unusual hat-trick that covered two innings at the [[Brisbane Cricket Ground]], dismissing Australia's [[Tony Dodemaide]] with the last ball of the first innings and [[Mike Veletta]] and [[Graeme Wood (cricketer)|Graeme Wood]] with his first two deliveries in the second.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Scorecards/50/50648.html|title=West Indies in Australia 1988/89 (1st Test)|publisher=CricketArchive|access-date=7 September 2014}}</ref> During that winter he also took 10 wickets in a Test match for the first time against [[Indian cricket team|India]] in Kingston.

In 1994, he was appointed captain of the West Indies for the tours of India and [[New Zealand cricket team|New Zealand]] after [[Richie Richardson]] was ordered to rest because of "acute fatigue syndrome". In 1995, he took 62 Test wickets at an average of 21.75 runs per wicket, a performance which he bettered in 2000 when he took 66 Test wickets at an average of 18.69, including 34 wickets in the Test series against [[English cricket team|England]] at an average of 12.82 runs per wicket. Coming close to the record for a West Indian bowler of 35 wickets in a Test series (set by [[Malcolm Marshall]] in 1988). In the 1990s, his partnership with [[Curtly Ambrose]] was one of the most feared bowling attacks in world cricket.

During the first part of his career, Walsh served as the "stock" bowler in an attack featuring Marshall, [[Joel Garner]] and later Ambrose, but after the retirement of Marshall and Garner took the role as opening bowler. His action lacked the elegance of those bowlers, but its economy and his natural athleticism ensured he was accurate and durable, even over very long spells and he used his height (about 198&nbsp;cm, or six-foot-six) to extract vicious bounce. Even as he lost pace in the later stage of his career he continued to take wickets at an undiminished rate; teams tended to defend against him and Ambrose and attack the weaker third and fourth bowlers.

Walsh played his last ODI against [[New Zealand cricket team|New Zealand]] in 2000 and his last Test match against [[South African cricket team|South Africa]] in his homeland, Jamaica, in 2001.

[[Image:CWalshBowling.png|thumb|left|300px|A graph showing Walsh's test career bowling statistics and how they have varied over time.]]

Walsh is one of only seven bowlers to have bowled over 5000 [[over (cricket)|overs]] in Test cricket, the others being [[Muttiah Muralitharan]] of Sri Lanka, [[Shane Warne]] and [[Nathan Lyon]] of Australia, [[Anil Kumble]] of India and [[James Anderson (cricketer)|James Anderson]] and [[Stuart Broad]] of England.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Bowling records {{!}} Test matches {{!}} Cricinfo Statsguru {{!}} ESPNcricinfo.com |url=https://stats.espncricinfo.com/ci/engine/stats/index.html?class=1;filter=advanced;orderby=balls;qualmin1=30000;qualval1=balls;template=results;type=bowling |access-date=2023-08-03 |website=Cricinfo}}</ref> He is also one of only seven bowlers to have taken 500 or more Test wickets.  In ODIs, Walsh was not as successful although he will be remembered for his best performance, 5 wickets for just 1 run against Sri Lanka in 1986. In first-class cricket, he took [[5 wickets in an innings]] more than 100 times and [[10 wickets in a match]] 20 times.

His highest score, coincidentally, was 30 in both forms of the game. By the end of his career, he had such a reputation for poor batting that the crowd would cheer every ball he faced.<ref name="Profile"/> Whether this was in appreciation of his batting or an attempt to wind up the bowling side is open to interpretation. His most significant (if scoreless) innings came when he kept [[Brian Lara]] company during a last-wicket stand to ensure victory in the match (and thus a draw in the series) against Australia in the Third Test in 1999 (Walsh also took seven wickets in the match).<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.espncricinfo.com/series/australia-tour-of-west-indies-1998-99-61383/west-indies-vs-australia-3rd-test-63839/full-scorecard|title=Full Scorecard of Australia vs West Indies, Third test, 1998-9|publisher=ESPNcricinfo|access-date=22 July 2014}}</ref> A trademark of his batting was an elaborate windmilling leave-alone. Walsh is a much loved and respected cricketer and the West Indies have yet to find a fast bowler with anything approaching his talents.

Walsh is also famous for his sportsmanlike gesture of not [[Run out|mankading]] last man [[Saleem Jaffar]] of [[Pakistan cricket team|Pakistan]] in a [[Cricket World Cup|World Cup]] match in 1987, which cost the West Indies the match and a place in the semi-finals.

He is currently a regular feature of the [[Lashings World XI]] alongside other cricket legends including Sachin Tendulkar and fellow West Indian [[Richie Richardson]]. In May 2004, Walsh was chosen one of the Jamaica's five greatest cricketers of all time.<ref>{{cite web |last=Cricinfo staff |first=Wisden |date=13 May 2004 |title=Jamaica's top five cricketers of all time – Walsh and Holding named among Jamaica's best |url=https://www.espncricinfo.com/story/walsh-and-holding-named-among-jamaica-s-best-140899 |access-date=22 July 2014 |publisher=ESPNcricinfo}}</ref>

He has a dubious distinction of being one of three players to play more than 100 test matches and not make a half-century, the others being [[Nathan Lyon]] and [[Makhaya Ntini]].

==Records==

Walsh took 5 wickets in an ODI match conceding only one run against Sri Lanka in December 1986, a match which the West Indies won at the [[Sharjah Cricket Stadium|Sharjah Cricket Association Stadium]], [[Sharjah]] by 193 runs. This was his solitary five-wicket haul in the format.<ref name="SoleODIfifer">{{cite web |url=http://www.espncricinfo.com/ci/engine/match/65839.html |title=Champions Trophy, 1986/87 – 5th Match |work=Cricinfo |publisher=ESPNcricinfo |access-date=22 August 2013}}</ref> In February 1998, he played his 100th Test, against England in [[Georgetown, Guyana]]. In 2000, Walsh became the highest wicket-taker in Test cricket, breaking a six-year-old record of Kapil Dev's 434 wickets. He achieved the feat in his 114th match, which are 17 matches less than Kapil Dev.<ref>{{cite web |last=Nasim |first=Col (retd) Rafi |date=2 April 2000 |title=News and Views |url=https://www.espncricinfo.com/story/news-and-views-84127 |access-date=22 August 2013 |publisher=ESPNcricinfo}}</ref> Walsh became the first bowler to reach 500 wickets in the history of Test cricket. He achieved the feat against South Africa in 2001, getting [[Jacques Kallis]] [[leg before wicket]] in [[Port-of-Spain, Trinidad]].<ref>{{cite web |author=CricInfo |date=19 March 2001 |title=Walsh becomes the first man to 500 Test wickets |url=https://www.espncricinfo.com/story/walsh-becomes-the-first-man-to-500-test-wickets-105279 |access-date=22 August 2013 |publisher=ESPNcricinfo}}</ref> Throughout his Test career, Walsh produced one of the greatest opening partnership with [[Curtly Ambrose]] as a bowler, and shared 421 wickets from 49 matches with the latter.<ref name="Profile"/> Walsh's 519 wickets in Test cricket was a record at that time, which was surpassed by Australian [[Shane Warne]] in 2004

Walsh's feats with the bat are rather less flattering, as indicated by an average of seven in both Test cricket and ODIs. He also holds the record for the most Test ducks (43), and also held the record for the most "not outs" – 61 times – until passed by [[James Anderson (cricketer)|James Anderson]] in 2017.<ref name="Profile"/>

Walsh played 132 Tests and 205 ODI matches, and took 519 and 227 wickets respectively.<ref name="Profile"/> He took 22 five wicket hauls in Tests—of which five fifers came in the first 63 appearances and 17 in the later 69 appearances—and one in ODIs.<ref name="1st to 500"/><ref name=overall1>{{Cite web | url = http://stats.espncricinfo.com/ci/content/records/283354.html |title =Records / Test matches / Bowling records – Most five-wickets-in-an-innings in a career |publisher=ESPNcricinfo |access-date=22 August 2013}}</ref>

Walsh holds the record for the best bowling figures (13 for 55) for a captain in a Test match.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://stats.espncricinfo.com/ci/content/records/283246.html|title=Best figures in a match by a captain
|work=cricinfo}}</ref>

==Retirement==
During his Test career, spanned over seventeen years, Walsh bowled 5004.1 overs, captured 519 wickets at an average of 24.45 runs and at a strike rate of 57.55 in 132 Test matches. Cricket critics considered him that he was "one of the most admired cricketers of recent times and will long be remembered as one of the game's most revered players."<ref>{{cite web |last=Arshad |first=Chughtai |date=25 April 2001 |title=Thank you Courtney Walsh |url=https://www.espncricinfo.com/story/thank-you-courtney-walsh-95536 |access-date=22 August 2013 |publisher=ESPNcricinfo}}</ref> He played last time in Test cricket against South Africa in April 2001, a match 
West Indies won by 130 runs at [[Sabina Park]], [[Kingston, Jamaica]]. He took six wickets for 103 runs in the match.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.espncricinfo.com/ci/engine/match/63929.html |title=South Africa tour of West Indies, 2000/01: Sir Vivian Richards Trophy – 5th Test (19 April 2001)|publisher=ESPNcricinfo |access-date=22 August 2013}}</ref> In ODIs, he took 227 wickets from 205 matches at an average of 30.47.<ref name="Profile"/> His last ODI came in January 2000, against New Zealand at [[Jade Stadium]], [[Christchurch]] in which he took one wicket for 70 runs.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.espncricinfo.com/ci/engine/match/64644.html |title=West Indies tour of New Zealand, 1999/00: West Indies in New Zealand ODI Series – 5th ODI (11 January 2000)|work=Cricinfo |publisher=ESPNcricinfo |access-date=22 August 2013}}</ref>

Former West Indian captain [[Clive Lloyd]] attributed Walsh: "I don't think you'll find another Courtney Walsh around and if I was a young fast bowlers, I'd want to emulate him."<ref name="Lloyd_Sobers">{{cite web |date=25 April 2001 |title=Let's Not Lose Walsh |url=https://www.espncricinfo.com/story/let-s-not-lose-walsh-95590 |access-date=22 August 2013 |publisher=ESPNcricinfo}}</ref> Former West Indian all-rounder [[Garry Sobers]] said about him that the "young crop of fast bowlers can take from him his dedication to West Indies and his ability to be always there, trying and giving 100 per cent in difficult conditions."<ref name="Lloyd_Sobers"/>

==Post-retirement==
After his career as a selector for the West Indies national cricket team, Walsh signed as bowling coach of Bangladesh in August, 2016. His contract expired after the 2019 Cricket World Cup and he left his position as Bangladesh bowling coach along with then Bangladesh head coach [[Steve Rhodes]].<ref>{{cite web |date=31 August 2016 |title=Walsh signs on as Bangladesh bowling coach |url=https://www.espncricinfo.com/story/courtney-walsh-signs-on-as-bangladesh-bowling-coach-1052569 |access-date=31 August 2016 |publisher=ESPNcricinfo}}</ref>

Courtney Walsh is the son of Joan Wollaston and also owns a restaurant in Jamaica called Cuddyz.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.cuddyzsportsbar.com/|title=Cuddyz restaurant|access-date=29 March 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170330001325/http://www.cuddyzsportsbar.com/|archive-date=30 March 2017|url-status=usurped}}</ref> In November 2019, he was appointed as the assistant coach to the head coach [[Gus Logie]] for the [[West Indies women's cricket team]].<ref>{{Cite web |date=2019-11-01 |title=Walsh the new assistant coach for West Indies women |url=https://www.espncricinfo.com/story/courtney-walsh-the-new-assistant-coach-for-west-indies-women-1205377 |access-date=2019-11-01 |website=ESPNcricinfo |language=en}}</ref>

==Coaching career==
Walsh was appointed bowling coach of the [[Bangladesh national cricket team]] in September 2016 on a three-year contract. He was appointed interim head coach in February 2018 following the resignation of [[Chandika Hathurusingha]], with his first tournament in charge being the [[2018 Nidahas Trophy]].<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.espncricinfo.com/story/courtney-walsh-named-bangladesh-s-interim-head-coach-1138007|title=Walsh named Bangladesh's interim head coach|first=Mohammad|last=Isam|publisher=ESPNcricinfo|date=26 February 2018|access-date=4 June 2023}}</ref>

In October 2020, he was appointed as head coach of [[West Indies women's national cricket team]].<ref>{{cite web |title=Courtney Walsh named West Indies women's coach |url=https://www.espncricinfo.com/story/courtney-walsh-named-west-indies-women-s-coach-1234184 |access-date=2 October 2020 |work=ESPN Cricinfo}}</ref> After the [[2023 ICC Women's T20 World Cup|2023 T20 World Cup]], Cricket West Indies decided not to renew his contract.<ref>{{Cite web |title=CWI not to renew Courtney Walsh's contract as head coach of West Indies women's team |url=https://www.espncricinfo.com/story/courtney-walsh-removed-as-head-coach-of-west-indies-womens-team-1368308 |access-date=2023-05-15 |website=ESPNcricinfo |language=en}}</ref>

==Awards and honours==
Walsh was named one of the [[Wisden Cricketers of the Year]] in 1987, and the cricket almanack ''[[Wisden Cricketers' Almanack|Wisden]]'' noted his "three distinct speeds, all delivered with the same action", and his "sparing use of the bouncer, his shorter deliveries generally threatening the batsman's rib-cage, a tactic which, allied to change of pace, produced many catches in the short-leg area off splice or glove."<ref name=wisden_crickeer_of_the_year/> Walsh was selected as one of the ''[[West Indian Cricket (annual)|West Indian Cricket Cricketer of the Year]]'' in 1988.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/Overall/Indian_Cricket_Cricketers_of_the_Year.html | title=Indian Cricket Cricketers of the Year: 1988|access-date=7 September 2014 |publisher=CricketArchive}}</ref> He was named one Jamaica's greatest cricketers of all time in 2004.<ref>{{cite web |author=Wisden Cricinfo staff |date=13 May 2004 |title=Jamaica's top five cricketers of all time – Walsh and Holding named among Jamaica's best |url=https://www.espncricinfo.com/story/walsh-and-holding-named-among-jamaica-s-best-140899 |access-date=7 September 2014 |publisher=ESPNcricinfo}}</ref>

In October 2010, he was inducted into the [[ICC Cricket Hall of Fame]] along with [[Joel Garner]], joining the other fifteen West Indian players.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.espncricinfo.com/ci-icc/content/page/391062.html | title=ICC Cricket Hall of Fame|access-date=7 September 2014 |publisher=ESPNcricinfo}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2010/oct/06/rachel-heyhoe-flint-cricket-fame | title=Rachael Heyhoe-Flint first woman inducted into cricket's Hall of Fame |access-date=22 August 2013 |agency=Press Association |date=6 October 2010 |work=[[The Guardian]] }}</ref>

==See also==
* [[List of international cricket five-wicket hauls by Courtney Walsh]]

==References==
{{Reflist}}

==External links==
* [https://www.britannica.com/biography/Courtney-Walsh Courtney Walsh]

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