Rahkeem Rashawn Shane Cornwall (born February 1, 1993) is a cricketer from Antigua. A right arm off-break bowler, Cornwall has played for the Leeward Islands cricket team and was featured in the Antigua Hawksbills line-up in the Caribbean Premier League. In August 2019, Cricket West Indies named him Championship Player of the Year. He made his international debut for the West Indies cricket team later that month. He also set the record for the heaviest cricketer to play test cricket, weighing more than 140 kg (22 stones). For the Leewards Isles, he is the second highest wicket taker in both first class and List A cricket, while only Kieran Powell has scored more than his four List A hundreds for the team.

Career

In July 2016, he was selected for the XI of the West Indies Cricket Board President to compete against the Touring Indian Team; he scored 41 top points in his team's first innings before taking 5 wickets in India's innings. For the same team he met the touring team of England in 2017; he scored an important 59 runs in a partnership of 123 and helped his team recover from 55-5 to 233. During the 2017 tour, he again played for the Cricket Board President's XI against Pakistan in a warm-up match. In October 2016 he was selected for the West Indies A Tour through Sri Lanka and participated in all three unofficial test matches; While disappointing with the racket, he went on to fetch 23 wickets with an average of under 20. In a four-day regional competitive game against Guyana in April 2017, he led the Leeward Islands in the absence of Kieran Powell, who had been recalled to the West Indies Test site. He finished the competition as a joint third highest wicket taker, with most for his team. Cornwall played in England for several months during which time he played for Thames Ditton CC and was used as a deadly bowler and the occasional harmful batsman. He was celebrated in the club for drinking three feet of beer faster than anyone.

In 2017 he was selected by the St Lucia Stars in the CPL Draft for the coming season. In a disappointing season for the team, Cornwall was one of the most promising members of the squad; he finished the tournament with the second best batting average on the team and was also one of the more thrifty bowlers. He lost his best performance against the Barbados Tridents; After being promoted in order to open, Cornwall hit their 50 balls of 26 (his first in T20 cricket), giving the stars hope to pursue their 196 goal. However, he retired injured at 78 after being hit in the stomach by a bouncer for Kieron Pollard with 47 runs from 3 overs. This decision was not well received by Pollard and St. Lucia lost the game.

He was the lead wicket taker for the Leeward Islands in the 2018/19 Regional Super50 tournament with fourteen layoffs in eight games. He was then the top wicket taker in the Regional Four-Day Competition 2018/19 and took 54 wickets, even though he only played nine games; these achievements helped his team to 3rd place in the table. However, a controversial statement by Cornwall, who acted as deputy captain in the last game of the season to keep his opponent Barbados from second place, backfired spectacularly.

In August 2019, he was named to the West Indies testing team for their series against India. He made his Test debut for the West Indies against India on Aug. 30, 2019. At 140 kg (308 lbs / 22 st) he is the heaviest man to play Test cricket, although there is no accurate record of WGGrace's weight in 1899 , the year of his retirement.

In October 2019, he was named to the Leeward Islands squad for the 2019-20 regional Super50 tournament. The following month, in a one-off friendly against Afghanistan, Cornwall made its first five-wake move in Test cricket.

In June 2020, Cornwall was added to the West Indies testing squad for their run against England. The test series was originally scheduled to start in May 2020, but has been postponed to July 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

In July 2020, he was named to the St. Lucia Zouks squad for the 2020 Caribbean Premier League. In June 2021, following the players' draft, he was selected to participate in the US minor league cricket tournament.