phil simmons Profile - ICC Profile, Age, Career Info & Stats.
phil simmons is a cricketer(sportsman) from West Indies. His ICC profile, age, career info & stats are given below.
Full Name
Philip Verant Simmons
Born
April 18, 1963, Arima, Trinidad
Age
60 years old
Batting Style
Right hand Bat
Bowling Style
Right arm Medium
Playing Role
Batting Allrounder
Batting Stats
Test | ODI | T20I | IPL | |
---|---|---|---|---|
Mat | 26 | 143 | - | - |
Inn | 47 | 138 | - | - |
Runs | 1002 | 3675 | - | - |
Avg | 22.27 | 28.94 | - | - |
SR | 51.84 | 67.97 | - | - |
HS | 110 | 122 | - | - |
NO | 2 | 11 | - | - |
100s | 1 | 5 | - | - |
50s | 4 | 18 | - | - |
4s | 130 | 376 | - | - |
6s | 4 | 44 | - | - |
Bowling Stats
Test | ODI | T20I | IPL | |
---|---|---|---|---|
Mat | 26 | 143 | - | - |
Inn | 16 | 103 | - | - |
Balls | 624 | 3880 | - | - |
Runs | 257 | 2876 | - | - |
Wkt | 4 | 83 | - | - |
BBI | 34 / 2 | 3 / 4 | - | - |
BBM | 57 / 2 | 3 / 4 | - | - |
Eco | 2.47 | 4.45 | - | - |
Avg | 64.25 | 34.65 | - | - |
5W | 0 | 0 | - | - |
10W | 0 | 0 | - | - |
Teams he has played for:
- LMP Simmons
- West Indies
- Border
- Durham
- Easterns
- Leicestershire
- Trinidad & Tobago
- Wales Minor Counties
Heres what CricBuzz says about him.
In his early days, Simmons was active participant in all sports but cricket was his leading suit. Around six years after his first-class debut, Simmons was given his Test debut against India in Chennai in 1988. He had honed his all-round skills at English County cricket, guiding Leicestershire to the County Championship title for only the second time in their history. Much of the edifice of Leicestershire's success was built on Simmons' 1244 runs and 56 wickets in addition to 35 catches.
The injury then happened but it did not deter him as Simmons returned to top-flight cricket for the tour to England in 1991. Much like his hero, Gordon Greenidge, Simmons was an enterprising batsman but struggled to replicate the former's consistency. He managed just a solitary hundred in 47 innings, his 110 arriving against the Aussies in the 1992 Boxing Day Test at Melbourne.
He was more effective in ODIs, hitting 5 centuries at a brisk clip but the crowning glory ensued with the ball when he produced a remarkable spell of 10-8-3-4 versus Pakistan, inspiring his side to protect a smallish total.
Two decades have flown by since then but Simmons still owns the most economical spell in the history of ODI cricket (among those who completed their maximum quota of 10 overs). After retiring from all forms of cricket in 2002 Simmons took to coaching. He endured a torrid stint with Zimbabwe before taking charge of Ireland after their impressive performance in the 2007 World Cup.
Following his uncle Phil's footsteps, Lendl Simmons has grown to become a fine all-rounder for West Indies while staying game to don the wicket-keeping gear as well.
By Deivarayan Muthu
Heres what ESPNcricinfo says about him.
Phil Simmons was an explosive Trinidadian allrounder whose Test record does him no sort of justice. His one Test hundred came against tough opposition at Melbourne in 1992-93, but he made just four other fifties from his 26 starts, most of them as opener. His finest achievement was probably taking Leicestershire to the County Championship with a towering season in 1996, when he collected 1244 runs and 56 wickets - and 35 catches, most of which landed in his bucket-sized hands at slip. Usually a medium-pacer, Simmons bowled quickly that year, reportedly outpacing Devon Malcolm on their one meeting. As a youngster on the 1988 West Indian tour of England, Simmons was hit on the head by David Lawrence in fading light at Bristol: his heart stopped and he needed emergency brain surgery before making a full recovery. He went into coaching, landing the poison chalice of looking after Zimbabwe. Inevitably it ended in tears, and he was sacked in August 2005 amid reports that he was too nice to handle the cut and thrust of running an international side. But a new opportunity arose two years later when he was appointed Ireland's head coach after the 2007 World Cup.
Will Luke, May 2007
His time coaching Ireland propelled the country to new heights. Victories over England at the 2011 World Cup and West Indies and Zimbabwe at the 2015 edition were the product of a new wave of professionalism implemented during his eight years at the helm that contributed largely toward Ireland eventually being awarded Test status in 2017.
At the end of the 2015 World Cup, he departed amicably from his job with Ireland to take on the challenge of restoring West Indies to the greatness of his own days with the side. However, it proved to be a turbulent 18-month tenure. Six months into the job, he was suspended after making comments criticizing 'outside influence' in the ODI squad selection process for a tour of Sri Lanka.
He was reinstated six weeks later in November 2015 and just a few months later experienced his greatest coaching success as the West Indies won their second World T20 in India. But a year after his suspension, he was sacked for good due to "differences in culture and strategic approach".
Simmons then went back to his bread and butter of helping out a country on the rise joining Afghanistan initially in a consultancy role in early 2017 and they tapped into his knowledge base to rout Ireland that March in Greater Noida. By the end of the year, he had been hired to take over as head coach on a permanent basis tasked with leading them at the qualifiers for the 2019 World Cup as well as their entry into Test cricket against India.