Johnson Charles

Johnson Charles
Personal information
Full name Johnson Charles
Born (1989-01-14) 14 January 1989
Castries, Saint Lucia
Batting style Right handed
Bowling style Right-arm medium-fast
Role Opening batsman (occasional wicket-keeper)
International information
National side
ODI debut (cap 164) 16 March 2012 v Australia
Last ODI 7 November 2015 v Sri Lanka
T20I debut (cap 48) 23 September 2011 v England
Last T20I 31 March 2016 v India
Domestic team information
YearsTeam
2008 St. Lucia
2010–11 West Indies A
2008–present Windward Islands
2013–present Antigua Hawksbills
Career statistics
Competition ODI T20I FC LA
Matches 35 28 33 67
Runs scored 1015 579 1,193 1,727
Batting average 29.00 21.44 20.92 25.77
100s/50s 2/4 0/3 1/3 3/6
Top score 130 84 151 177
Balls bowled 5 – 240 131
Wickets 0 – 5 3
Bowling average – – 33.40 55.00
5 wickets in innings –/– –/– –/– –
10 wickets in match –/– –/– –/– –
Best bowling –/– –/– 2/14 1/22
Catches/stumpings 19/1 8/2 55/0 37/2
Source: ESPNCricinfo, 4 April 2016

Johnson Charles (born 14 January 1989) is a St Lucian international cricketer who plays for the West Indies. As a wicketkeeper-batsman, Charles started his ODI career against Australia in March 2012.[1] His first T20I came against England in September 2011,[2] and he became just the second cricketer from the island of St Lucia to play for the West Indies (the first was Darren Sammy, who was captain in Charles' international debut).[3] Johnson was included in the West Indies' 15-man squad for the 2012 ICC World Twenty20 held in September and October that year.[4]

Domestic career

Charles played his first twenty20 match in January 2008, representing Saint Lucia in the Stanford Twenty20. Opening the batting with Keddy Lesporis, Charles managed scores of 2 and 21 from the only matches he played in the competition.[5] Later that year he debuted for the Windward Islands in the West Indies Board Cup, the regional one-day tournament. His performances weren’t sufficient to secure a place in the team’s one-day side, and in 2009 Charles played neither List A nor twenty20 cricket. However, he made his first-class debut in January that year and played eight matches for the Windward Islands in the Regional Four Day Competition. In 16 visits to the crease he accumulated 292 runs, including a single half-century, putting him seventh in the team’s list of leading run-scorers in that year’s competition.[6]

Charles did not represent the Windward Islands in the 2009/10 Regional Four Day Competition, but in 2010 he returned to the List A side for the West Indies Board Cup, and played his first twenty20 match for the team.[7][8][9] In the first match of the Caribbean T20, Charles opened the batting with Devon Smith and exploited several reprieves (Charles was dropped three times and nearly run out) to score his first half-century in the format.[10]

International career

Having been selected in the West Indies squad for the 2012 Twenty20, Charles opened the bat with Chris Gayle in the third match (he batted after the fall of the first wicket in the West Indies opening match and in the second did not bat as the match was rained off). After building a century partnership with Gayle, Charles (who was described by ESPNCricinfo as having "little obvious pedigree as an opening batsman") went on to score 84 to help his team to victory against England. It was his highest score in first-class, List A, or even twenty20 cricket.[11] The following month Charles was dropped from the West Indies squad to face Bangladesh in a five-match ODI series.[12]

International centuries

One Day International centuries

One Day International centuries of Johnson Charles
# Runs Match Against City/Country Venue Year Result
1 100 10  Australia Australia Melbourne, Australia Melbourne Cricket Ground 2013 Lost
2 130 11  Zimbabwe West Indies Cricket Board St. George's, Grenada National Stadium 2013 Won

International awards

One-Day International Cricket

Man of the Match awards

S No Opponent Venue Date Match Performance Result
1 Zimbabwe National Stadium, St. George's 22 February 2013 130 (111 balls, 12x4, 4x6) ; 1 ct.  West Indies won by 156 runs.[13]
2 India Sabina Park, Kingston 30 June 2013 1 ct. ; 97 (100 balls, 8x4, 4x6)  West Indies won by 1 wickets.[14]

Twenty20 International Cricket

Man of the Match Awards

# Series Season Match Performance Result
1 2012 ICC World Twenty20 14th match (WIN vs ENG) in Sri Lanka 2012 84 (56 balls, 10x4, 3x6)  West Indies won by 15 runs.[15]

References

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