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THE LADIES have spoken and the verdict is clear.

Courtney Walsh is the sexiest West Indian cricketer of them all.

In a random unscientific poll conducted around Kensington Oval during the sixth Cable & Wireless One-Day International, yesterday, women voted hands down for the 36-year-old Jamaican.

Out of 50 votes, Walsh, the veteran fast bowler and former captain, had 36, with former fast bowler Franklyn Rose, another Jamaican, getting eight.

``That butt ...umm,'' one middle-aged lady said referring to Walsh's posterior. ``I've never met him, but he seems so calm, so in control, and he's tall. That has a lot to do with it.''

The youngsters too prefer Walsh, and a group of three teenagers all voted for him. One said: ``It's got to be Walsh for me, nobody else.''

Rose, with his bald head and chiselled body, was especially a hit with one Jamaican in her mid-20s.

``I like the way he talks,'' she said with rolling eyes. ``He seems so fearless, and has an appealing body.''

New kid on the block Barbadian Corey Collymore copped one vote as did Jimmy Adams.

One lady said of Collymore: ``I like his boyish appeal and he looks like the ideal package in the making.''

Another thought Adams' legs were ``the best in the team and probably the best in the world''.

Jamaican new boy Nehemiah Perry received two picks. Barbadian Hendy Bryan won a lady's heart for his ``quiet attractiveness'', while Shivnarine Chanderpaul was next in line.

The females also had some advice for the not-so-sexy. One Barbadian suggested that Keith Arthurton should take down his collar and show his chest, while captain Brian Lara has lost favour because ``he's looking a little fat'', as one said.