Full Name

Kemar Andre Jamal Roach

Born

June 30, 1988, St. Lucy, Barbados

Age

35y 263d

Batting Style

Right hand Bat

Bowling Style

Right arm Fast medium

Playing Role

Bowler

In a land where fast bowling talent has been dwindling alarmingly over the last decade, Kemar Roach is perhaps the brightest hope. At well under six feet, he doesn't have the height of some of the earlier West Indian greats, but he has extreme pace, consistently touching the late 140s (kph), and can skid on to batsmen quicker than they realise.

Roach burst into international cricket with 13 wickets in his first two Tests, against Bangladesh, but made his name on the tour of Australia in 2009-10. Consistently bowling at around 150kph, he hurried most of the Australian batsmen and made the headlines in the Perth Test, forcing Ricky Ponting to retire hurt after hitting him on the elbow with a pacy 146kph delivery. In the 2010 IPL auction, he was bought by Deccan Chargers for a healthy sum of $720,000, but it's in the longer format that he holds the greatest promise, a fact that was confirmed by his ten-wicket haul in two Tests in Sri Lanka in 2010-11. He picked up his maiden ten-wicket haul in Tests in 2012 against Australia in Trinidad.

By the end of 2014, Roach seemed set to fulfill his promise, with a bowling average in the mid-20s and a strike rate below 50 after 29 Tests. An ankle injury suffered during the Centurion Test in December 2014, however, slowed him down - in both senses of the term. Significantly down on pace after his recovery and return, he took just nine wickets in eight Tests that included a tour of England, and home and away series against Australia. He was left out ahead of the 2016 home Tests against India. Having to prove himself all over again in domestic cricket, Roach took 23 wickets at 16.17 in the 2016-17 Professional Cricket League, and was back in West Indies' Test squad for their 2017 tour of England.

Since 2021, he has been spending parts of the English summers in south London, leading the line for Surrey when he can. In 2022, his 25 wickets from just seven matches - four of those wins - helped the county win their 21st County Championship title.
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Kemar Roach Career Stats

Bowling

FormatMatInnsBallsRunsWktsBBIBBMAveEconSR4w5w10w
Tests811471446474912706/4810/14627.743.1053.514111
ODIs9593457938851256/276/2731.085.0936.6330
T20Is1111234284102/252/2528.407.2823.4000
FC16328926089138135258/4010/8026.313.1749.626222
List A119116554346331566/276/2729.695.0135.5430
T20s46449121229283/183/1843.898.0832.5000

Batting & Fielding

FormatMatInnsNORunsHSAveBFSR100s50s4s6sCtSt
Tests811292711744111.50312137.610014015220
ODIs9560363083412.8359451.8500246220
T20Is111133*-2150.00000010
FC1632245022175312.74--03--490
List A11974444003413.33--00--270
T20s4613559127.3752113.460033180
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Recent Matches of Kemar Roach

MatchBatBowlDateGroundFormat
Barbados vs Guyana0 & 82/52 & 0/2813-Mar-2024CoolidgeFC
West Indies vs Australia8 & 13/47 & 0/2825-Jan-2024BrisbaneTest # 2524
West Indies vs Australia17* & 11*2/48 & 0/617-Jan-2024AdelaideTest # 2523
West Indians vs CA XI--2/23 & 0/1610-Jan-2024AdelaideOTHER
Surrey vs Hampshire11 & 03/41 & 0/726-Sep-2023SouthamptonFC

Videos of Kemar Roach

Photos of Kemar Roach

Kemar Roach had Cameron Green caught at mid-off
Kemar Roach got the big wicket of Steven Smith
Kevin Sinclair and Kemar Roach produced a good partnership
Kemar Roach got on the board with the wicket of Mitchell Marsh
Kemar Roach celebrates a wicket
Kemar Roach is all smiles after he got rid of Shubman Gill cheaply