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Full name Jerome Everton Taylor
Born June 22, 1984, St Elizabeth, Jamaica
Current age 24 years 14 days
Major teams West Indies,Jamaica
Batting style Right-hand bat
Bowling style Right-arm fast
Batting and fielding averages
Mat
Inns
NO
Runs
HS
Ave
BF
SR
100
50
4s
6s
Ct
St
Tests
20
33
6
369
31
13.66
708
52.11
0
0
48
6
3
0
ODIs
47
19
7
133
43*
11.08
135
98.51
0
0
11
4
14
0
T20Is
4
1
1
7
7*
-
5
140.00
0
0
0
1
1
0
First-class
54
82
17
820
40
12.61
0
0
13
0
List A
65
28
11
214
43*
12.58
0
0
18
0
Twenty20
9
2
1
7
7*
7.00
7
100.00
0
0
0
1
3
0
Bowling averages
Mat
Inns
Balls
Runs
Wkts
BBI
BBM
Ave
Econ
SR
4w
5w
10
Tests
20
35
3643
2186
63
5/50
9/95
34.69
3.60
57.8
4
2
0
ODIs
47
47
2453
1917
70
5/48
5/48
27.38
4.68
35.0
3
1
0
T20Is
4
4
72
88
7
3/6
3/6
12.57
7.33
10.2
0
0
0
First-class
54
8583
4616
181
8/59
25.50
3.22
47.4
8
10
2
List A
65
3314
2573
99
5/48
5/48
25.98
4.65
33.4
4
1
0
Twenty20
9
9
178
215
18
5/10
5/10
11.94
7.24
9.8
0
1
0
Career statistics
Test debut
West Indies v Sri Lanka at Gros Islet, Jun 20-24, 2003 scorecard
Last Test
West Indies v Australia at Bridgetown, Jun 12-16, 2008 scorecard
Test statistics
ODI debut
West Indies v Sri Lanka at Kingstown, Jun 11, 2003 scorecard
Last ODI
West Indies v Australia at St George's, Jun 27, 2008 scorecard
ODI statistics
T20I debut
New Zealand v West Indies at Auckland, Feb 16, 2006 scorecard
Last T20I
West Indies v Australia at Bridgetown, Jun 20, 2008 scorecard
T20I statistics
First-class debut
2002/03
Last First-class
West Indies v Australia at Bridgetown, Jun 12-16, 2008 scorecard
List A debut
2003
Last List A
West Indies v Australia at St George's, Jun 27, 2008 scorecard
Twenty20 debut
New Zealand v West Indies at Auckland, Feb 16, 2006 scorecard
Last Twenty20
West Indies v Australia at Bridgetown, Jun 20, 2008 scorecard
Profile
Jerome Taylor was just 18 years old, with a solitary one-day match for Jamaica under his belt, when he was called into the West Indies squad for the final match of their series against Sri Lanka in June 2003. It was the culmination of an explosive first season for Taylor, who was named as the most promising fast bowler in the 2003 Carib Beer Series, after picking up 21 wickets at 20.14 in six first-class matches. That haul included a second-innings spell of 8 for 59 in Jamaica's five-wicket victory over Trinidad and Tobago, a match in which he took ten wickets for the first time. But a back injury sidelined him from competitive cricket. He picked up 26 wickets at 16.61 in the Carib Beer Cup in the 2004-05 season and, in the next, he grabbed 12 wickets at 29.00 to force his way back into the West Indies team. When India toured the West Indies in mid-2006, they ran into an energised Taylor at his best. Quick and accurate, Taylor turned into West Indies' spearhead as the series progressed. His pacy burst on the lifeless surface in St Kitts won many admirers but it was his lethal performance in Kingston that underlined his worth. Getting the ball to lift off a good length, he thrilled his home crowd with his maiden five-wicket haul in Tests. He picked up 26 wickets at 27.69 in the 2006-07 season and bagged his career-best figures, 4 for 49, when he bowled West Indies to a thrilling win against Australia in the Champions Trophy. Later that year he snared 5 for 48 in a superb ODI performance against Zimbabwe and in 2008 was West Indies' leading bowler in the Test series against Sri Lanka, with 11 wickets at 24.81.
Andrew Miller May 2008
