Dawnley Joseph, Date of Birth, Place of Birth
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Date of Birth: 07-Jan-1975
Place of Birth: Stubbs, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Saint George Parish, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
Profession: cricketer
Zodiac Sign: Capricorn 
About Dawnley Joseph
- Dawnley Alister Joseph (born 28 August 1966) is a former Vincentian cricketer who played for the Windward Islands in West Indian domestic cricket.
- He was a right-handed top-order batsman. A former West Indies under-19s player, Joseph made his first-class debut for the Windwards in March 1987, in a one-off fixture against Barbados, and his Shell Shield debut shortly after.
- He scored his maiden first-class century in the 1987–88 Red Stripe Cup, an innings of 109 against Jamaica.
- In the following season's Geddes Grant Shield, Joseph scored his first List A century, an innings of 108 that again came against Jamaica.Joseph finished the 1988–89 Red Stripe Cup with 388 runs from five matches, fourth in the competition and the most for the Windwards.
- At the beginning of the following season, he was selected to tour Zimbabwe with a Young West Indies team.
- The team, captained by Brian Lara, played a series of fixtures against the Zimbabwean national side.
- In the last of three first-class matches on tour, Joseph made what was to be his highest first-class score, 149 from 188 balls.
- However, after that he did not make another century until the 1994–95 Red Stripe Cup, when he finished as the Windwards' highest run-scorer.
- He had been runner-up to Junior Murray the previous season.Against Bermuda in the 1997–98 Red Stripe Bowl, Joseph hit 153 not out opening the batting with Alton Crafton.
- His innings set a new record for the highest individual score in List A cricket in the West Indies, beating Desmond Haynes' previous mark of 152 not out set during the 1988–89 season.
- Several other players have since made higher scores.
- Joseph played his last first-class matches for the Windwards during the 1998–99 Busta Cup, and his final limited-overs matches for the team in the 2000–01 Red Stripe Bowl.
- However, the Saint Vincent and the Grenadines team were invited to compete separately in the 2002–03 Red Stripe Bowl, with Joseph playing one final season in that competition.
- He also appeared for Saint Vincent at the 2006 Stanford 20/20, at the age of 39.In June 2018, he won the WIPA Lifetime Award at the annual Cricket West Indies' Awards.
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