Jermaine Blackwood

Jermaine Blackwood (born 20 November 1991) is a Jamaican cricketer.[1] He made his Test cricket debut for the West Indies against New Zealand in June 2014.[2] He made his One Day International debut for the West Indies against Sri Lanka on 4 November 2015.[3]

Jermaine Blackwood
Personal information
Full nameJermaine Blackwood
Born (1991-11-20) 20 November 1991
Jamaica
BattingRight-handed
BowlingRight arm off-break
RoleBatsman
International information
National side
Test debut (cap 298)16 June 2014 v New Zealand
Last Test3 February 2021 v Bangladesh
ODI debut (cap 170)4 November 2015 v Sri Lanka
Last ODI7 November 2015 v Sri Lanka
Domestic team information
YearsTeam
2012–presentJamaica
2013–presentJamaica Tallawahs
Career statistics
Competition Test ODI FC LA
Matches 30 2 103 59
Runs scored 1,524 11 6,031 1,455
Batting average 31.10 5.50 33.32 27.45
100s/50s 1/12 0 5/42 3/7
Top score 112* 0 248 119
Balls bowled 324 18 1,254 90
Wickets 2 0 14 1
Bowling average 97.00 49.85 81.00
5 wickets in innings 0 0 0
10 wickets in match 0 0 0
Best bowling 2/14 3/39 1/38
Catches/stumpings 24/– 1/– 106/– 25/–
Source: Cricinfo, 3 February 2021

Blackwood scored his maiden Test century in the first Test of England's 2015 tour, however, England went on to win the match. Blackwood then steered his team to victory in the third Test at Barbados hitting 53 not out with the winning runs coming off the bowling of Moeen Ali. The West Indies won by 5 wickets to draw the series 1–1.

In September 2019, in the second innings of the second Test against India, Blackwood replaced Darren Bravo as a concussion substitute in the West Indies' squad.[4][5]

In October 2019, he was named in Jamaica's squad for the 2019–20 Regional Super50 tournament.[6] In March 2020, in round eight of the 2019–20 West Indies Championship, Blackwood scored his maiden double century in first-class cricket, with 248 runs against the Leeward Islands.[7] He was the leading run-scorer in the tournament, with 768 runs in eight matches.[8]

In June 2020, Blackwood was named in the West Indies' Test squad, for their series against England.[9] The Test series was originally scheduled to start in May 2020, but was moved back to July 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic.[10] In the first Test of the series, at Southampton, Blackwood top-scored with a match winning 95, helping his team to win the match by four wickets.[11]

In November 2020, Blackwood was named in West Indies's test squad against New Zealand.[12]In the first test against New Zealand, he scored 104 and shared a 155 run stand with Alzarri Joseph, but could not help the West Indies to win the Test.[13]

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