Balfour Patrick Patterson (born 15 September 1961) is a former fast bowler for the West Indies cricket team in the mid-1980s to early 1990s.
[3] In a Test Match in Melbourne, 1988–89, during Christmas, just before second last day's play, Steve Waugh decided to bounce Patterson.
[citation needed] In 2016, Andrew Miller wrote of Patterson, "[T]he utter anonymity of his post-cricket life merely adds to the legend.
"[5] In 2017, after a number of years of trying to track him down, Indian journalist Bharat Sundaresan found Patterson in Kingston, Jamaica, where he has lived since he finished playing.
Mental health issues have subdued him and separated him from his family, though lucid memories of his cricketing career remain.