Chadwick Walton Explained

Chadwick Antonio Kirkpatrick Walton (born 3 July 1985) is a West Indies cricketer from Jamaica. Nicknamed Rope, Walton is a right-hand batsman and wicket keeper who played a series of first class cricket matches for Combined Campuses and Colleges and University of West Indies Vice-Chancellor's XI before being chosen for the West Indies Test side. He played his first match against Bangladesh on 9 July 2009.^[1] During his first Test series, he equalled Ridley Jacobs's record of five dismissals in an innings. Walton was picked by Karachi Kings for Season 5 of Pakistan Super League.^[2]

Despite being tidy behind the stumps, Walton's batting has been a serious concern. He has made 2 ducks in 2 One Day International innings and has only managed 10 runs in 4 Test innings.^[3]

Following the West Indies A-team tour of India, Walton was named in the 15-member Test squad for the upcoming West Indies' tour of India 4 October 2013.^[4] He made his return to international cricket after Marlon Samuels was ruled out of the limited-overs series in New Zealand due to a chronic wrist injury.^[5] He was unable to capitalize in the course of the series in which he managed only 17 runs in the three matches that he played. Known regionally as a powerful striker, his T20I debut was also fruitless where he managed 9 runs in the two T20Is played at Eden Park and Wellington Regional Stadium (commercially known as Westpac Stadium).

In February 2017, he scored his first century in List A cricket, when he made 117 in the semi-final of the 2016–17 Regional Super50 tournament.^[6] He followed this up with his second List A century less than two weeks later, against the touring England team.^[7] In the 2017 CPL Draft, he was selected by the Guyana Amazon Warriors with a $110,000 contract.^[8]

On 3 June 2018, he was selected to play for the Vancouver Knights in the players' draft for the inaugural edition of the Global T20 Canada tournament.^[9] Later the same month, he was named the Best Regional T20 Cricketer of the Year at the annual Cricket West Indies' Awards.^[10]

In June 2019, he was selected to play for the Vancouver Knights franchise team in the 2019 Global T20 Canada tournament.^[11] In July 2020, he was named in the Jamaica Tallawahs squad for the 2020 Caribbean Premier League.^{[12] [13]}

See also

List of West Indies Test wicket-keepers

Notes and References

1. Web site: West Indies name replacement squad. 8 July 2009. ESPNcricinfo. 22 August 2009.
2. Web site: Chadwick Walton Cricketer Profile on CricKnock.com. CricKnock. 4 March 2020. 28 January 2023. https://web.archive.org/web/20230128010935/https://cricknock.com/player/chadwick-walton/. dead.
3. Web site: Player Profile: Chadwick Walton. July 2009. ESPNcricinfo. 22 August 2009.
4. Web site: Kirk Edwards, Walton in Test squad. ESPNcricinfo. 4 October 2013.
5. Web site: Samuels returns home from NZ with wrist injury. ESPNcricinfo. 24 December 2013.
6. Web site: Jamaica smash 434 to surge into final . 16 February 2017 . ESPNcricinfo.
7. News: Stokes brought down to earth but England's batting fires. ESPNcricinfo. 2017-03-07. en.
8. News: Nabi, Rashid get taken in 2017 CPL draft. ESPNcricinfo. 2017-03-12. en.
9. Web site: Global T20 Canada League – Full Squads announced . CricTracker . 4 June 2018 . 4 June 2018.
10. Web site: Shai Hope, Stafanie Taylor clean up at CWI Awards . ESPNcricinfo. 21 June 2018.
11. Web site: Global T20 draft streamed live . Canada Cricket Online . 20 June 2019 . 20 June 2019.
12. Web site: Nabi, Lamichhane, Dunk earn big in CPL 2020 draft . ESPNcricinfo. 6 July 2020.
13. Web site: Teams Selected for Hero CPL 2020 . Cricket West Indies . 6 July 2020.