Known more for his fielding skills than his batting or bowling, Roger Harper is a former West Indies cricket who later turned coach. Harper, an off spinner, made his debut in 1983 and played through the decade as West Indies' lead spinner and a useful batsman in the lower order. Harper could play only 25 Tests for the country but managed much more in the ODI version, and even had some useful contributions to his name, the most notable one being the 4/47 in the quarter-finals against South Africa in the 1996 World Cup.

After retirement in the same year, Harper went into coaching and was appointed coach of the West Indies national side in 2000, during a period of transition, and coached the side till 2003. He then took over as the team manager in 2005 and then went on to coach the Kenyan national team for
another two years.

By Karthik Lakshmanan