Jerome Taylor

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Jerome Taylor West Indies (WI)
Batting style	Right-hand bat
Bowling type	Right-arm fast
	Tests	ODIs
Matches	10	29
Runs scored	109	30
Batting average	8.38	6.00
100s/50s	-/-	-/-
Top score	23	9
Balls bowled	1786	1472
Wickets	31	44
Bowling average	33.19	26.97
5 wickets in innings	2	-
10 wickets in match	-	n/a
Best bowling	5/50	4/24
Catches/stumpings	-/-	9/-
As of March 14, 2007 Source: Cricinfo.com

Jerome Everton Taylor (born 22 June 1984 in St. Elizabeth) is a Jamaican born West Indian cricketer.He is expected to lead the fast bowling attack comprising Dwayne Bravo,Darren Powell and Ian Bradshaw at the World Cup.

After just one match playing for Jamaica, he was called into the West Indian series for the final match against Sri Lanka in 2003. Taylor had been named the most promising fast bowler of the Carib Beer series of 2003, after picking up 21 wickets for a 20.14 run average, which included a haul of 8 for 59, Taylor's first ever ten-wicket match haul.

Taylor established himself in the ODI side with wickets during 2006, and was West Indies' leading wicket-taker during the DLF Cup in Malaysia, with eight wickets. He was selected for the 2006 Champions Trophy and after four wickets in the preliminary games against Zimbabwe and Bangladesh, Taylor took a hat-trick in West Indies' opening group game against Australia, becoming the first West Indian to achieve such a feat in an ODI. ^[1]

With 21 runs required and 14 balls remaining, Taylor had Michael Hussey (then ranked as the world's best ODI batsman^[2]) bowled for 13, then dismissed Brett Lee lbw on the next ball. That was the end of the over, but he returned to bowl the final over, bowling Brad Hogg to complete the hat-trick. Earlier, Taylor had bowled Ricky Ponting, the fourth-ranked batsman in the world, for 1, and he finished with four for 49, at the time his second-best ODI career figures.

And in the second Test against Pakistan in Multan November 2006, he got 5 wickets in the first innings for 91 runs.

[edit] References

1. ^ Rajesh, S (2006-10-18). Taylor hat-trick sinks Australia. Retrieved on 2006-10-18.
2. ^ LG ICC Rankings, Cricketratings.net, 18 October 2006

	West Indies squad - 2007 Cricket World Cup
1 Bradshaw | 2 Bravo | 3 Chanderpaul | 4 Collymore | 5 Gayle | 6 Lara | 7 Powell | 8 Pollard | 9 Ramdin | 10 Samuels | 11 Sarwan | 12 Simmons | 13 Dwayne Smith | 14 Devon Smith | 15 Taylor | Coach: King