Collis Llewellyn King is a former West Indies

West Indian cricket team

The West Indian cricket team, also known colloquially as the West Indies or the Windies, is a multi-national cricket team representing a sporting confederation of 15 mainly English-speaking Caribbean countries, British dependencies and non-British dependencies.From the mid 1970s to the early 1990s,...

 cricketer

Cricketer

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 who played nine Tests

Test cricket

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 and 18 One Day Internationals for the West Indies.

Born in Christ Church, Barbados, King played as an all-rounder

All-rounder

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, but had more success with the bat than ball, especially in Test cricket, where he scored one century and two fifties but only took three wickets - in three different innings. In ODI cricket, his highest - and swiftest - score came in the 1979 World Cup

1979 Cricket World Cup

The 1979 Cricket World Cup was the second edition of the tournament and was won by the West Indies. It was held from June 9 to June 23, 1979 in England. The format had remained unchanged from 1975. Eight countries participated in the event. The preliminary matches were played in 2 groups of 4...

 final, when he came in at 99 for 4 to hit 86 off 66 deliveries, and adding 149 with Viv Richards

Viv Richards

Sir Isaac Vivian Alexander Richards, KNH, OBE is a former West Indian cricketer. Better known by his second name, Vivian or, more popularly, simply as Viv or King Viv Richards was voted one of the five Cricketers of the Century in 2000, by a 100-member panel of experts, along with Sir Donald...

. King also held a catch and bowled three overs for 13 runs in the match, and the West Indies won by 92 runs.

King went on both the 1982/3 and 1983/4 West Indies' Rebel Tours

South African rebel tours

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 to South Africa.

In a varied first class career, he played for his native country Barbados in the West Indies domestic competition, but also played for Glamorgan

Glamorgan County Cricket Club

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 and Worcestershire

Worcestershire County Cricket Club

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 in English county cricket

County cricket

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 and Natal in South Africa. In scoring 123 on his Worcestershire debut in 1983, he became the first player in more than fifty years to score a hundred in his first match for the county.

Collis still enjoys his cricket, playing for Yorkshire side Dunnington CC.