Johnson Charles is a cricketer from St. Lucia but represents West Indies internationally. He was born on January 14, 1989. Charles began his One Day International career in March 2012 against Australia as a wicket-keeper batsman. He was only the second cricketer from the St. Lucian island to play for the West Indies (the first was Darren Sammy, who captained Charles’ international debut).
He played his maiden T20I game against England in September 2011. For the 2012 ICC World Twenty20, which took place in September and October of that year Johnson Charles was a member of the West Indies team that won the competition. He was also a part of the 2016 T20 World Cup winning West Indies team.
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Johnson Charles Domestic and T20 career
Charles made his Twenty20 debut at the Stanford Twenty20 in January 2008, playing for St. Lucia. Charles opened the batting with KD Lespouris in his lone competition game, scoring 2 and 21. Later that year, he made his debut for the Windward Islands in the local one-day competition known as the West Indies Board Cup.
Charles did not participate in either List A or Twenty20 cricket in 2009 due to his insufficient one-day performance. He did, however, play eight matches for the Windward Islands in the Regional Four-Day Competition and made his first-class debut in January of that year. Charles scored 292 runs in 16 innings, including one half-century, and was ranked sixth on the team’s list of top run scorers in that year’s competition.
He did not compete for the Windward Islands in the 2009–2010 Regional Four Day Competition, but he made a comeback in 2010 for the West Indies Board Cup and played in the Windward Islands’ inaugural Twenty20 match. Johnson Charles and Devon Smith opened the batting in the opening game of the Caribbean T20, and the former took advantage of multiple breaks (Charles was dropped three times and almost run out) to record his maiden half-century.
Charles eventually made it into Cricinfo’s 2016 Caribbean Premier League top XI. He was chosen on June 3, 2018, in the players’ draught for the inaugural Global T20 Canada competition, to represent the Toronto Nationals. In the month of the November of the year 2019, he was chosen to play for Sylhet Thunder in the Bangladesh Premier League for the next 2019–20 campaign.
In July of that year, Charles was added to the Barbados Tridents squad for the Caribbean Premier League. In the Jaffna Stallions lineup for the inaugural Lanka Premier League season, he later took Ravi Bopara’s position. On December 16, 2020, Charles struck 26 runs, including six fours, in just 15 balls to enable the Stallions to overcome the Galle Gladiators and win the 2020 LPL Championship.
International Career
Charles, who was chosen for the West Indies team for the 2012 Twenty20, batted first alongside Chris Gayle in the third game (he did not bat in the first game since it was canceled due to rain, and he did not bat in the second). Charles (whom ESPNCricinfo referred to as having “little obvious pedigree as an opening batsman”) scored 84 to assist his team defeat England after forming a century stand with Gayle.
In first-class, List A, or even Twenty20 cricket, it was his greatest score. Charles was left from the West Indies team for the five-match ODI series against Bangladesh the following month. In the fifth One-Day International of the Windies’ 2012–13 tour of Australia, which was contested at the Melbourne Cricket Ground, he reached his first ODI century, scoring 100 with eight fours and a six.
Charles played for the Windies team that captured the 2016 T20 World Cup. Charles earned his first century in T20I cricket on March 26, 2023, against South Africa, scoring 118 runs off just 46 balls. He immediately achieved the fastest T20I century by a West Indian cricketer and the joint second-fastest T20I century ever as he reached his 100 from just 39 balls. The West Indies won the series against the Proteas by a score of 2 to 1, and Charles was later awarded the man of the series.
Bio Data
Born: 14 January 1989
Age: 34 Years
Birth Place: Castries, St. Lucia
Batting: Right-handed
Bowling: Slow left-arm orthodox
Role: Opening batsman
International Details
National side: West Indies
One Day International (ODI) debut (cap 164): (On 16 March 2012) West Indies vs Australia
Last Played One Day International (ODI): (On 9 June 2023) West Indies vs the United Arab Emirates (UAE)
T20I debut (cap 48): (On 23 September 2011) West Indies vs England
Last Played T20I (Twenty 20 International) by Charles: (On 28 March 2023) West Indies vs South Africa
