Tino Best's autobiography reveals raunchy times on tour

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“I've slept with anywhere between 500 and 650 girls, all around the world.”

Barbadian fast bowler Tino Best had an 11-year international career with the West Indies team from 2003 to 2014. Now 34, Best has written an autobiography due out this month that promises to reveal all about his career, “including his antics in the bedroom”. This certainly appears to be the case, as an excerpt released today exclusively by British publication, The Daily Mail, reveals Best’s detailed account of his escapades that included threesomes.

Saying that he "became a bit of a playboy" when things ended with his first love, Best wrote, "Put it this way: I was a man whore."

    “I love girls – and girls love me. I reckon I'm the best-looking bald-headed guy in the world. I joke about being the black Brad Pitt! Everywhere I went as a cricketer, I'd talk to girls, date girls and sleep with girls. I reckon I've slept with anywhere between 500 and 650 girls, all around the world.”

According to Best, while on tour the competition extended off the pitch as well:

“We used to have competitions of who could shag the most girls on tour. I think my record, on an eleven-week tour to Australia in 2005, was more than forty.”

He also said that despite Chris Gayle’s bad boy image, the Jamaican cricket star “doesn't indulge in too much bad stuff”.

He continued: “He's a good man, Chris. The most fun on a night out is Dwayne Bravo. We complemented each other very well when we played for the West Indies together. I'll give him an award now: he's the best wingman going!”

Acknowledging that he wasn’t “husband material” and his mother didn’t mind him having lots of girls “if I was careful”, Best emphasised that he never led anyone on.

    “Don't get me wrong, I respect girls very much. I come from a family of strong women but in the Caribbean things are just more laid back and it's what people do. No-one was getting hurt, no-one was being led on and everyone knew where they stood.”

Best’s book, Mind the Windows: Tino Best – My Story was co-authored by Best and Jack Wilson, the online sports news editor at UK publication, Daily Star.

The foreword is written by retired English crickter, Andrew Flintoff. The book also includes tributes from broadcast journalist and avid cricket fan, Piers Morgan, umpire Dickie Bird and former international captains Adam Hollioake and Darren Sammy.

Best tweeted earlier this year: “To share this book with the world about my life and where I came from, the struggles with everything as a young man, means the world to me.”

It is due out on April 28, after a previously announced release date of April 7.
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