West Indian cricketer
Brandon Alexander King (born 16 December 1994) is a Jamaican cricketer . He was part of the West Indies' squad for the 2014 ICC Under-19 Cricket World Cup . He made his international debut for the West Indies cricket team in November 2019.[ 1]
Domestic career
King plays for Jamaica in domestic cricket, debuting in first-class cricket in the 2014-15 Regional Four Day Competition , and List A cricket in the 2015-16 Regional Super50 . He was selected in the 9th round of the 2017 CPL player draft by the St Kitts & Nevis Patriots .[ 2] He made his Twenty20 debut for St Kitts & Nevis Patriots in the 2017 Caribbean Premier League on 5 August 2017.[ 3]
In June 2018, King was named in the Cricket West Indies B Team squad for the inaugural edition of the Global T20 Canada tournament.[ 4]
King hit 132 not out , the highest innings in CPL history, consisting of 10 fours and 11 sixes in a 72-ball knock against Barbados Tridents at Providence on 6 October 2019 as Guyana Amazon Warriors qualified for the final of the 2019 Caribbean Premier League .[ 5] In July 2020, he was named in the Guyana Amazon Warriors squad for the 2020 Caribbean Premier League .[ 6] [ 7] On 1 September 2020, King scored his 1,000th run in Twenty20 cricket.[ 8]
International career
In October 2019, King was named in the West Indies' One Day International (ODI) and Twenty20 International (T20I) squads for their series against Afghanistan in India.[ 9] He made his ODI debut for the West Indies, against Afghanistan , on 11 November 2019.[ 10] He made his T20I debut for the West Indies, also against Afghanistan, on 14 November 2019.[ 11]
In May 2024, he was named in the West Indies squad for the 2024 ICC Men's T20 World Cup tournament.[ 12]
References
^ "Brandon King" . ESPN Cricinfo . Retrieved 27 June 2015 .
^ "HERO CPL PLAYER DRAFT 2017 CPL T20" . www.cplt20.com . Retrieved 12 March 2017 .
^ "2nd Match, Caribbean Premier League at Lauderhill, Aug 5, 2017" . ESPN Cricinfo . Retrieved 6 August 2017 .
^ "Windies B squad for Global T20 League in Canada" . Cricket West Indies . Archived from the original on 13 June 2018. Retrieved 13 June 2018 .
^ "Brandon King century powers Guyana Amazon Warriors to CPL 2019 final" . International Cricket Council . Retrieved 8 October 2019 .
^ "Nabi, Lamichhane, Dunk earn big in CPL 2020 draft" . ESPN Cricinfo . Retrieved 6 July 2020 .
^ "Teams Selected for Hero CPL 2020" . Cricket West Indies . Retrieved 6 July 2020 .
^ "Barbados Tridents slump to 27 for 8 on way to crushing defeat by Guyana Amazon Warriors" . ESPN Cricinfo . Retrieved 2 September 2020 .
^ "Hayden Walsh Jr, Brandon King break into West Indies' limited-overs squads" . ESPN Cricinfo . Retrieved 15 October 2019 .
^ "3rd ODI (D/N), West Indies tour of India at Lucknow, Nov 11 2019" . ESPN Cricinfo . Retrieved 11 November 2019 .
^ "1st T20I (N), West Indies tour of India at Lucknow, Nov 14 2019" . ESPN Cricinfo . Retrieved 14 November 2019 .
^ "West Indies has announced their Squad for the T20I World Cup" . ScoreWaves . Retrieved 7 June 2024 .
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