Keithroy Cornelius
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Charlotte Amalie, United States Virgin Islands
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| Full name | Keithroy Cornelius | ||||||||||||||
| Born | 3 May 1968 Charlotte Amalie, United States Virgin Islands | ||||||||||||||
| Batting | Right-handed | ||||||||||||||
| Bowling | Right-arm fast | ||||||||||||||
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| Years | Team | ||||||||||||||
| 2007/08 | United States Virgin Islands | ||||||||||||||
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Source: Cricinfo, 6 January 2013 | |||||||||||||||
Keithroy Cornelius (born 3 May 1968) is a former West Indian cricketer. Cornelius was a right-handed batsman who bowled right-arm fast. He also played association football for the United States Virgin Islands football team between 2004 and 2011.[1]
In February 2008, the United States Virgin Islands were invited to take part in the 2008 Stanford 20/20, whose matches held official Twenty20 status. Cornelius made a single appearance for the team in their preliminary round match against St Kitts.[2] In a match which they won by 4 wickets, he bowled two expensive wicketless overs which cost 20 runs, while with the bat he was dismissed for a duck by Elsroy Powell.[3]
In football, Cornelius has made six appearances for the United States Virgin Islands, the last of which came in a 6–1 defeat to Curaçao in a 2014 World Cup qualifier on 15 November 2011, in which he scored his team's only goal,[4] becoming, at the age of 43 years and 196 days, the oldest-ever international goalscorer in world football, breaking the 17-year-old record set by Roger Milla in the 1994 World Cup at the age of 42 years and 39 days.[5] Some sources, however, state that the holder of this record is Wales' Billy Meredith, who scored against England in 1919, at the age of 45,[6] but this match was a Victory International, which is not recognized as a full international.[5]
