marlon samuels Profile - ICC Profile, Age, Career Info & Stats.
marlon samuels is a cricketer(sportsman) from West Indies. His ICC profile, age, career info & stats are given below.
Full Name
Marlon Nathaniel Samuels
Born
February 05, 1981, Kingston, Jamaica
Age
42 years old
Batting Style
Right hand Bat
Bowling Style
Right arm Offbreak
Playing Role
Top order Batter
Batting Stats
Test | ODI | T20I | IPL | |
---|---|---|---|---|
Mat | 71 | 207 | 67 | 15 |
Inn | 127 | 196 | 65 | 14 |
Runs | 3917 | 5606 | 1611 | 161 |
Avg | 32.64 | 32.98 | 29.29 | 12.38 |
SR | 47.66 | 75.12 | 116.23 | 93.6 |
HS | 260 | 133 | 89 | 46 |
NO | 7 | 26 | 10 | 1 |
100s | 7 | 10 | 0 | 0 |
50s | 24 | 30 | 10 | 0 |
4s | 537 | 526 | 144 | 9 |
6s | 32 | 118 | 69 | 7 |
Bowling Stats
Test | ODI | T20I | IPL | |
---|---|---|---|---|
Mat | 71 | 207 | 67 | 15 |
Inn | 69 | 134 | 30 | 11 |
Balls | 4392 | 5091 | 479 | 214 |
Runs | 2445 | 4127 | 622 | 284 |
Wkt | 41 | 89 | 22 | 9 |
BBI | 13 / 4 | 12 / 3 | 23 / 3 | 39 / 3 |
BBM | 50 / 6 | 12 / 3 | 23 / 3 | 39 / 3 |
Eco | 3.34 | 4.86 | 7.79 | 7.96 |
Avg | 59.63 | 46.37 | 28.27 | 31.56 |
5W | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
10W | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Teams he has played for:
- RG Samuels
- West Indies
- Antigua Hawksbills
- Basnahira Cricket Dundee
- Comilla Victorians
- Delhi Daredevils
- Duronto Rajshahi
- Jamaica
- Karnataka Tuskers
- Kowloon Cantons
- Leeward Islands
- Melbourne Renegades
- Peshawar Zalmi
- Pune Warriors
- Sagicor High Performance Centre
- St Kitts and Nevis Patriots
- St Lucia Stars
- UWI Vice Chancellor's XI
- West Indies A
- West Indies B
- West Indies Select XI
- West Indies Under-15s
- West Indies Under-23s
- West Indies XI
- WICB President's Celebrity XI
Heres what CricBuzz says about him.
This resulted in a career where the highlights were his off-field encounters rather than his on-field exploits. In 2002 he refused to abide by the rules and broke a team curfew on the tour of India. The team management toyed with the idea of sending him back, but eventually decided to let him off with a reprimand. Samuels reposed the faith placed in him with his maiden Test century in Kolkata. His career never really took off after that as injuries and form dips forced him to be in and out of the national team.
He came into the spotlight once more in 2007 when the Indian police alleged that Samuels had provided information to a bookie before the start of an India-West Indies ODI. He played in the 2007 World Cup even though the investigations were still on. His World Cup campaign in itself is remembered for the run out he was involved in with Brian Lara in the latter's last game for West Indies. The following year was even worse for Samuels.
His bowling action was reported as suspect and he was banned from bowling in international cricket until he managed to correct his action. A bigger blow was to follow as the ICC took into consideration the evidence provided by the Indian police over Samuels' involvement with bookies. He was found guilty of passing on information in exchange for monetary benefits. This resulted in a two-year ban from cricket and West Indies were left without a solid middle-order batsman in their rebuilding phase.
After serving the two-year ban, Samuels returned to the national team immediately after the 2011 World Cup. He had a good tour of Bangladesh and was one of the most consistent performers in the limited overs format. Samuels actually proved himself during the West Indies tour to England in 2012, where he accumulated 386 runs in just five innings, including a century and three fifties, against a top quality English bowling attack. Later that year, a gritty 78 by him in the final of the World T20 2012 against Sri Lanka helped West Indies to their first world title since 1979.
Samuels was also part of various T20 leagues in the year 2012. He was bought by Duronto Rajshahi and played the Bangladesh Premier League, and even was the team's highest run-scorer with 242 runs in 11 innings in the competition. In the same year, he signed a contract with Pune and represented them in the fifth and sixth IPL editions. The 2012 IPL clashed with Australia's tour of the West Indies, and Samuels was granted permission to skip the three-match Test series and play in the league. During the tournament, he was reported for having a suspect bowling action, and suspended from bowling for the rest of the competition. He then was selected to play for the Melbourne Renegades in the 2012-13 Big Bash T20 League in October 2012.
The hero of the winning campaign in Sri Lanka turned the villain in the 2014 T20 Cup in Bangladesh, sucking the momentum out of West Indies' chase via a painfully sluggish 29-ball 18 before rain knocked the defending champions out of the tourney on D/L rule.
Earlier, Samuels flopped in Sachin Tendulkar's farewell series. After securing a pair in the first Test of the home series against New Zealand, Samuels even was dropped from the Test side. But, he made a strong case for himself by scoring heavily in ODIs. He scored two hundreds versus India and was recalled for the tour of South Africa. Samuels maintained his fine form by scoring a century in the second Test in Port Elizabeth. He was also one of the chief architects in the T20I series win over the same opposition. However, he could not replicate the same form in the following ODI series.
Marlon Samuels turned up on the big occasion again in the 2016 World T20 final - at Eden Gardens against England - where he slammed an unbeaten 85 off 66 balls and deservedly won the Man of the Match award. When England toured West Indies for a two-Test series in May 2015, Samuels was involved in a banter with Ben Stokes when he humourously sent off the batsman with a salute. His form in whites has been on the decline since and he was dropped after the series against Pakistan in October 2016.
After suggesting interest in a kolpak deal in county cricket, Samuels was called into the side for ODIs against England and is a part of the Windies squad that will play the World Cup qualifiers in March 2017 in Zimbabwe.
By Ganesh Chandrasekaran and CB Staff
Heres what ESPNcricinfo says about him.
Marlon Samuels is a right-hander of immense ability, who has so far struggled to realise his potential, thanks to the various controversies he has been embroiled in. When he started his Test career at 19, without yet representing his native Jamaica in a first-class match, his composure and skill prompted comparisons - quite unfairly - with Viv Richards. His technique was near to faultless, and he exudes a bull-headed confidence - he used to skip his schoolwork on the basis that exams were irrelevant to future Test cricketers.
However, that confidence, which often overflowed into perceived arrogance, has landed him in plenty of trouble. It almost got him sent home from India late in 2002 after he defied a team curfew - but he was kept on, and responded with his a disciplined maiden Test century in Kolkata. His lack of consistency meant he remained an irregular member of the team in the 2000s, but just before his selection for the 2007 World Cup, he was drawn into a major controversy after Nagpur police alleged that he passed on match-related information to an alleged bookie ahead of an ODI against India. He was included in the World Cup squad despite the ICC's investigations into the issue, where he only briefly shone, ending the tournament by running out Brian Lara in his last international innings.
He was called for the World Twenty20 in South Africa in 2007, but the match-fixing allegations reared its head in 2008 when he was found guilty of "receiving money, or benefit or other reward that could bring him or the game of cricket into disrepute." Samuels was subsequently banned for two years, at a time when West Indies desperately needed solidity in their middle-order. He returned to the West Indies Test and ODI teams in 2011, but it was only on the tour to England in 2012 that he finally showed what he was capable of. Against a top-class bowling attack in difficult conditions, Samuels scored 386 runs in five innings, with a century and three fifties, defying the England bowlers every time with his correct technique and classy strokeplay. Later that year came a highlight of his career: a gutsy, snappy 78 in the World Twenty20 final against Sri Lanka, which lifted West Indies out of a hole and to their first world title since the 1979 World Cup.
A month after the World T20 triumph, Samuels notched up his first Test double-century, scoring 260 against Bangladesh in Khulna. Consistency eluded him, however, as the big scores were often followed by dips in form and injuries. A facial injury suffered during the Big Bash League in January 2013 ruled him out of West Indies' limited-overs tour to Australia. He picked up a four-for on his return to international cricket against Zimbabwe but his batting form did not improve. Samuels scored just two international hundreds, both in ODIs, in the two seasons following the double-hundred and his lack of form in Tests, and competitions like the World T20, only contributed further to West Indies' struggles. As a result of his poor form, he was dropped after just one Test in the home series against New Zealand in June 2014.
Samuels, who is a handy part-time offspinner, was reported for a suspect action during the second Test against India in Mumbai in November 2013, along with offspinner Shane Shillingford. Following a biomechanical analysis of his action, Samuels was barred from bowling quicker deliveries in international cricket in December 2013.
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