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Darren Sammy

Darren Sammy
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Personal information
Full name Darren Julius Garvey Sammy
Born (1983-12-20) 20 December 1983 (age 33)
Micoud, Saint Lucia
Height 6 ft 6 in (1.98 m)
Batting style Right-handed
Bowling style Right-arm medium-fast
Role All-rounder
International information
National side
Test debut (cap 266) 7–11 June 2007 v England
Last Test 19–23 December 2013 v New Zealand
ODI debut (cap 124) 8 July 2004 v New Zealand
Last ODI 21 March 2015 v New Zealand
T20I debut (cap 14) 28 June 2008 v England
Last T20I 3 April 2016 v England
T20I shirt no. 88
Domestic team information
Years Team
2003– Windward Islands
2013–2014 Sunrisers Hyderabad
2014– Hobart Hurricanes
2015– Royal Challengers Bangalore
2013–present St Lucia Zouks
2016–present Peshawar Zalmi
2016–present Hampshire
Career statistics
Competition Test ODI FC LA
Matches 38 126 96 184
Runs scored 1,323 1,871 3,549 2,922
Batting average 21.69 21.68 23.81 24.55
100s/50s 1/5 0/9 2/21 0/11
Top score 106 89 121 84
Balls bowled 6215 4,956 13,744 7,246
Wickets 84 81 217 154
Bowling average 35.80 47.54 28.81 37.40
5 wickets in innings 4 10
10 wickets in match 0
Best bowling 7/66 4/26 7/66 4/16
Catches/stumpings 65/– 66/– 137/– 101/–
Source: ESPNCricinfo, 7 December 2015

Darren Julius Garvey Sammy (born 20 December 1983) is a Saint Lucian cricketer who plays international cricket for the West Indies. He is a two time T20 World Cup winning captain. He plays as a right-handed batsman and a fast-medium bowler. On making his One Day International (ODI) debut against Bangladesh in 2004, Sammy became the first person from the island of St. Lucia to play international cricket. Three years later he made his Test debut against England, taking 7/66 which were the best bowling figures for a West Indian in his first Test since Alf Valentine in 1950. Sammy was appointed West Indies captain in October 2010. He scored his maiden Test century in May 2012 during a match against England.

Sammy is the only captain to have won World T20 twice. He captained West Indies to the 2012 ICC World Twenty20 victory against Sri Lanka, West Indies' first major trophy for 8 years (having won the ICC Champions trophy against England in 2004). Sammy again captained West Indies to victory in the 2016 ICC World Twenty20 against England. Now Sammy plays in the Pakistan Super League as the captain of Peshawar Zalmi.

On August 5th 2016, Sammy was informed he was being dropped as T20I captain of West Indies.

On 2 October 2001 Darren Sammy made his List A debut at the age of 17. Playing in the Red Stripe Bowl for the Northern Windward Islands against Jamaica he bowled nine overs without taking a wicket and scored 25 runs before he was run out as his team slid to defeat. Playing three matches Sammy was his team's second-highest run-scorer with 90 runs, and took one wicket. Sammy was a member of the West Indies team to the 2002 Under-19 World Cup, which was held that year in New Zealand; he made 22 runs and took three wickets. Other members of that team, which lost to Australia in the semi-final, included Dwayne Bravo, Narsingh Deonarine, Ravi Rampaul, Shane Shillingford, Lendl Simmons, and Gavin Tonge all of whom went on to play for the West Indies senior team.


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