Rudi Webster

Webster was born in Marchfield, Saint Philip, Barbados. Between 1961 and 1968 he appeared in 70 first-class matches as a right-handed batsman and right-arm fast-medium bowler, representing Scotland, Warwickshire and Otago. He played his first first-class match for Scotland in 1961, while studying medicine at the University of Edinburgh.[1] Playing against the Marylebone Cricket Club, he took 11 wickets in the match, including a wicket with the first ball he bowled in each innings.[2][3] In 1963, playing for Warwickshire after his medical studies finished for the year, he took 77 wickets in 17 matches in the County Championship at an average of 17.44, forming the fieriest opening attack in the competition with another student, Roger Edmonds.[4] In his first Championship match in 1964, after completing his medical studies, he took 7 for 6 and 5 for 52 in Warwickshire's victory over Yorkshire.[5][6]

Webster managed the West Indian team that played World Series Cricket between 1977 and 1979.[2] From the late 1970s to the mid-1980s he was a successful team motivator with the premiership teams Carlton and Richmond in the Victorian Football League.[7] He later worked with international cricket teams as a sports psychologist.[8][9] He has written two books on the subject: Winning Ways: In Search of Your Best Performance (1985) and Think Like a Champion (2013).[10]

He served as Barbados's Ambassador to the United States from 1991 to 1995.

• List of Otago representative cricketers

• Rudi Webster at ESPNcricinfo
• Rudi Webster at CricketArchive