kemar roach Profile - ICC Profile, Age, Career Info & Stats.
kemar roach is a cricketer(sportsman) from West Indies. His ICC profile, age, career info & stats are given below.
Full Name
Kemar Andre Jamal Roach
Born
June 30, 1988, St. Lucy, Barbados
Age
35 years old
Batting Style
Right hand Bat
Bowling Style
Right arm Fast medium
Playing Role
Bowler
Batting Stats
Test | ODI | T20I | IPL | |
---|---|---|---|---|
Mat | 79 | 95 | 11 | 2 |
Inn | 125 | 60 | 1 | 1 |
Runs | 1137 | 308 | 3 | 10 |
Avg | 11.37 | 12.83 | 0.0 | 10.0 |
SR | 37.76 | 51.85 | 150.0 | 111.11 |
HS | 41 | 34 | 3 | 10 |
NO | 25 | 36 | 1 | 0 |
100s | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
50s | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
4s | 135 | 24 | 0 | 1 |
6s | 14 | 6 | 0 | 0 |
Bowling Stats
Test | ODI | T20I | IPL | |
---|---|---|---|---|
Mat | 79 | 95 | 11 | 2 |
Inn | 143 | 93 | 11 | 2 |
Balls | 14229 | 4579 | 234 | 48 |
Runs | 7362 | 3887 | 284 | 80 |
Wkt | 265 | 125 | 10 | 0 |
BBI | 48 / 6 | 27 / 6 | 25 / 2 | 32 / 2 |
BBM | 146 / 10 | 27 / 6 | 25 / 2 | 32 / 2 |
Eco | 3.1 | 5.09 | 7.28 | 10.0 |
Avg | 27.78 | 31.1 | 28.4 | 0.0 |
5W | 11 | 3 | 0 | 0 |
10W | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Teams he has played for:
- West Indies
- Antigua Hawksbills
- Barbados
- Brisbane Heat
- Deccan Chargers
- Guyana President's Select XI
- Jamaica Tallawahs
- Sagicor High Performance Centre
- St Lucia Zouks
- Sunrisers Hyderabad
- Surrey
- University of West Indies Vice Chancellor's XI
- Wayamba United
- West Indies A
- West Indies Cricket Board President's XI
- West Indies Select XI
- West Indies Under-19s
- West Indies XI
- Worcestershire
Heres what CricBuzz says about him.
However, it was during the series in Australia that Roach made his name. By bowling quick and with hostility, he peppered Ricky Ponting with short balls and forced him to retire hurt after hitting him on the elbow in the third Test at WACA. With that spell Roach announced himself to the world and Ponting was never the same batsman again. Before making his international debut, Roach represented the West Indies at Under-19 level, participating in the 2006 World Cup.
In the West Indies' second game of the 2011 World Cup against the Netherlands on 28 February, Roach became the sixth bowler to have claimed a hat-trick in the history of the showpiece event. Roach claimed a six-wicket haul in West Indies's massive win by 215 runs.
Despite the comebacks of Fiedel Edwards and Jerome Taylor, Roach has managed to retain his place in the side; which is quite a feat. In the absence of Edwards and Taylor, Roach had manfully toiled, bowling in some unhelpful conditions in Sri Lanka and rightfully earned the mantle of being the strike-bowler.
With his magnificent exploits, Roach was hot property during the IPL auctions in January 2011 and he was eventually picked up by Hyderabad for US 720,000 after Chennai couldn't raise their bid to match that of Hyderabad.
With Edwards coming back later, Roach was rested for the first couple of Tests against India in 2011. When Australia toured West Indies in 2012, Roach picked up his first 10-wicket haul in the second Test. Though the West Indies lost 2–0, Roach's 19 wickets for the series was the most for either side. In the subsequent series against England in June 2012, Roach struggled with no-balls and was unimpressive for the rest of the series. He was ruled out of the tour to India in November 2013, owing to a shoulder injury.
He also missed West Indies' subsequent tour to New Zealand. He was then in the news when he escaped a life threatening injury, surviving a car crash on a rain-lashed Bridgetown road.
Roach made a comeback to the Test side in August 2014, though he looked rusty in the first game against the visitors. He was back to his best from the second game onward. He finished the three-match series with 15 wickets and continued the same form versus Bangladesh, where he scalped 11 sticks in the two Tests. However, Roach got himself injured during the first Test against South Africa in Centurion. He returned for the 2015 World Cup but only featured in three games with modest returns. He hasn't played ODIs since then.
He wasn't selected for the 2016 home Tests against India but he found a way back into the squad to England, picking 23 wickets in the 2016-17 Professional Cricket League. He picked a five-wicket haul in the first innings of the third Test at Lord's.
By Srivathsa and Akshay
Heres what ESPNcricinfo says about him.
In a land where fast bowling talent has been dwindling alarmingly over the last decade, Kemar Roach is perhaps the brightest hope. At well under six feet, he doesn't have the height of some of the earlier West Indian greats, but he has extreme pace, consistently touching the late 140s (kph), and can skid on to batsmen quicker than they realise.
Roach burst into international cricket with 13 wickets in his first two Tests, against Bangladesh, but made his name on the tour of Australia in 2009-10. Consistently bowling at around 150kph, he hurried most of the Australian batsmen and made the headlines in the Perth Test, forcing Ricky Ponting to retire hurt after hitting him on the elbow with a pacy 146kph delivery. In the 2010 IPL auction, he was bought by Deccan Chargers for a healthy sum of $720,000, but it's in the longer format that he holds the greatest promise, a fact that was confirmed by his ten-wicket haul in two Tests in Sri Lanka in 2010-11. He picked up his maiden ten-wicket haul in Tests in 2012 against Australia in Trinidad.
By the end of 2014, Roach seemed set to fulfill his promise, with a bowling average in the mid-20s and a strike rate below 50 after 29 Tests. An ankle injury suffered during the Centurion Test in December 2014, however, slowed him down - in both senses of the term. Significantly down on pace after his recovery and return, he took just nine wickets in eight Tests that included a tour of England, and home and away series against Australia. He was left out ahead of the 2016 home Tests against India. Having to prove himself all over again in domestic cricket, Roach took 23 wickets at 16.17 in the 2016-17 Professional Cricket League, and was back in West Indies' Test squad for their 2017 tour of England.
Since 2021, he has been spending parts of the English summers in south London, leading the line for Surrey when he can. In 2022, his 25 wickets from just seven matches - four of those wins - helped the county win their 21st County Championship title.
ESPNcricinfo Staff