daren sammy Profile - ICC Profile, Age, Career Info & Stats.
daren sammy is a cricketer(sportsman) from West Indies. His ICC profile, age, career info & stats are given below.
Full Name
Daren Julius Garvey Sammy
Born
December 20, 1983, Micoud, St Lucia
Age
39 years old
Batting Style
Right hand Bat
Bowling Style
Right arm Medium
Playing Role
Allrounder
Batting Stats
Test | ODI | T20I | IPL | |
---|---|---|---|---|
Mat | 38 | 126 | 68 | 22 |
Inn | 63 | 105 | 52 | 20 |
Runs | 1323 | 1871 | 587 | 295 |
Avg | 21.69 | 24.95 | 17.26 | 19.67 |
SR | 67.88 | 100.05 | 147.49 | 122.41 |
HS | 106 | 89 | 42 | 60 |
NO | 2 | 30 | 18 | 5 |
100s | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
50s | 5 | 9 | 0 | 1 |
4s | 155 | 145 | 45 | 15 |
6s | 34 | 84 | 31 | 18 |
Bowling Stats
Test | ODI | T20I | IPL | |
---|---|---|---|---|
Mat | 38 | 126 | 68 | 22 |
Inn | 65 | 119 | 59 | 19 |
Balls | 6215 | 4956 | 916 | 236 |
Runs | 3007 | 3851 | 1116 | 350 |
Wkt | 84 | 81 | 44 | 11 |
BBI | 66 / 7 | 26 / 4 | 26 / 5 | 22 / 5 |
BBM | 98 / 8 | 26 / 4 | 26 / 5 | 22 / 5 |
Eco | 2.9 | 4.66 | 7.31 | 8.9 |
Avg | 35.8 | 47.54 | 25.36 | 31.82 |
5W | 4 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
10W | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Teams he has played for:
- West Indies
- Brampton Wolves
- Glamorgan
- Hobart Hurricanes
- Kings XI Punjab
- Northern Windward Islands
- Nottinghamshire
- Peshawar Zalmi
- Rajshahi Kings
- Royal Challengers Bangalore
- St Lucia
- St Lucia Zouks
- Stanford Superstars
- Sunrisers Hyderabad
- Toronto Nationals
- University of West Indies Vice Chancellor's XI
- Windward Islands
- World-XI
Heres what CricBuzz says about him.
Sammy became the first cricketer from St. Lucia to play for the West Indies, but he had an odd debut. He had made his debut against New Zealand in 2004 in a match that was washed out. He did not get a chance for the next three years. However, he grabbed the chance with both hands during West Indies' tour of England in 2007. In the second Test at Old Trafford, Sammy announced himself by claiming 7/66 in the second innings. This was the second best effort by a West Indian on debut since Alf Valentine's 8/104 in 1950. This was the only bright spot for the Windies in a series where they were trounced 3-0.
Sammy suffered a dip in fortunes with both bat and ball after the England tour. He would bowl with control but lacked penetration. He batted aggressively but failed to be consistent. He made sporadic appearances for the team during the 2008-09 period. However, he was back again in the limelight, this time in the midst of a crisis.
The bitter pay dispute between the players and the board led to them playing an under-strength team for the Bangladesh series. Sammy was chosen as the vice-captain and this was his second life in international cricket. The following years were good for Sammy with both bat and ball. In an ODI match against South Africa, he scored the fastest fifty ever by a West Indian when be blasted 50 off just 20 balls. Following Chris Gayle's resignation from captaincy, he led West Indies to their first Test win in two years when he picked up 5/29 in the second innings to help them defeat Pakistan by 40 runs. When India toured in June and July the West Indies lost the Test series 1–0, although Sammy led with passion and bowled his heart out, picking up seven wickets in three matches.
Initially, named as captain until the end of the 2011 season, Sammy was retained as the skipper across all formats for the tours of Bangladesh and India. Following on from the Bangladesh series, the West Indies moved on to India in November 2011. West Indies lost the Test series 2–0 and Sammy ended up as his team's highest wicket-taker with nine. The 2011-12 season saw Sammy improve as a batsman. When West Indies toured England in May 2012, Sammy began the series with scores of 17 and 37 in the first Test at Lord's, during which he passed 3,000 runs in First-Class cricket. In the following Test, his 26th, Sammy registered his maiden Test century. Sammy partnered Marlon Samuels in a 204-run stand, the second-highest seventh-wicket partnership for the West Indies.
Later in 2012, Sammy guided the team against New Zealand to their first Test series victory since 2009 against a side other than minnows, Bangladesh and Zimbabwe. Sammy led the West Indies in the 2012 T20 World Cup hosted by Sri Lanka. Although, he didn't exactly do well in the tournament, he turned out to be one of the star performers in the final. Sammy scored 26 not out off 15 balls and took two key wickets to help his team overcome a slow start and defeat Sri Lanka in the final as the West Indies won the 2012 World T20, their first world title since the 1979 World Cup. The following year, Sammy was bought by Hyderabad for the sixth IPL season.
Sammy was severely criticized for his dull captaincy when West Indies toured India in November 2013 for Sachin Tendulkar's farewell series. West Indies lost both the Test matches in less than three days, exposing their recent slump in Test cricket. The following tour to New Zealand made it even worse for Sammy. After somehow managing to draw the first Test, West Indies lost the next two inside four days. And, that was the time when Sammy decided to call it quits from the longer form of the game. The leadership of the side was then handed over to Denesh Ramdin.
However, there were no doubts regarding his finishing abilities in the limited overs format. With a high back-lift, generating typical Calypso power, Sammy's strike rates of 101.43 and 148.87 in ODIs and T20Is, respectively, stand testimony to the aforementioned fact. The smiling assassin is also one of the most adored cricketers of the modern game.
His all-round credentials prompted the Hyderabad franchise to bid for him in the 2014 Indian T20 League auctions. Sammy then shone brightly with cameos lower down the order in the 2014 T20 World Cup in Bangladesh, but West Indies failed to mount a successful defence, suffering elimination at the semi-final stage.
In the absence of Dwayne Bravo and Kieron Pollard for the 2015 World Cup, West Indies were left to contend with Sammy's expertise. They started with a loss to Ireland but then recovered to beat Pakistan before losing to New Zealand in the quarterfinal.
Sammy led Windies to another title, at the 2016 World T20 in India, becoming the only captain to have won the World T20 twice. Following that, the Beauséjour Cricket Ground in St Lucia was renamed to Daren Sammy Cricket Ground in his honour.
Sammy was dropped as Windies' T20 captain in August later that year, with the management deciding that he did not merit a place in the side. Carlos Brathwaite was named the new T20 leader instead.
Daren Sammy, released by his franchise Sunrisers Hyderabad, was bought by Kings XI Punjab at the 2017 IPL auctions but he could only join the team halfway into the tournament.
Sammy was a part of World XI's historic tour of Pakistan, where the teams played each other in three T20Is in a bid to revive cricket in the host nation.
Heres what ESPNcricinfo says about him.
Daren Julius Garvey Sammy is the first international cricketer from St Lucia and the first to be named West Indies captain. But he will be remembered for leading West Indies to two T20 world titles, a stirring victory over Sri Lanka in Colombo 2012 and an even more thrilling one against England in Kolkata four years later.
He made his Test debut at Old Trafford in 2007 and took 7 for 66 in the second innings - a performance that included three wickets in one over. In the next two years, Sammy struggled to hold down a place in the Test side but remained a fairly permanent fixture in the one-day team.
Playing for a weakened team against Bangladesh in 2009, he ended the two-Test series with 12 wickets. Further success with the ball came on Zimbabwe's tour of the Caribbean in 2010, when he became the first West Indian to take five wickets in a T20I. West Indies went on to lose that game, but Sammy's bowling in the one-day series that followed - he took eight wickets at 12.50 and an economy rate of just 2.85 - was a major factor in the home side's win. He was also one of the bright spots in West Indies' whitewashing by the South Africans later that year, although this time it was his batting that grabbed the attention: he scored at a strike rate of 145.31, and registered the fastest half-century by a West Indian at the time, in the second ODI in North Sound.
After Chris Gayle did not sign a central contract in 2010, Sammy was named captain of the Test and one-day teams, and he led West Indies to their first Test win in two years, taking seven wickets against Pakistan in Providence in 2011, but overall the results were disappointing. Though West Indies won six in a row - against New Zealand (at home), Bangladesh and Zimbabwe - they then lost heavily against India and New Zealand (away). Sammy's batting and bowling performances were less than impressive and he was replaced as Test captain by Denesh Ramdin in May 2014.
Sammy continued to play franchise T20 cricket after his international career wound down, leading Peshawar Zalmi to the PSL title in 2017 and St Lucia Zouks to the CPL final in 2020. He was appointed Zalmi coach in 2022.