| Shamarh Brooks | |
| Full Name: | Shamarh Shaqad Joshua Brooks |
| Birth Date: | 1988 10, df=yes |
| Birth Place: | Saint Michael, Barbados |
| Batting: | Right-handed |
| Bowling: | Leg-break |
| Role: | Top-order batter |
| International: | true |
| Country: | West Indies |
| Internationalspan: | 2019–present |
| Testdebutdate: | 22 August |
| Testdebutyear: | 2019 |
| Testdebutagainst: | India |
| Testcap: | 318 |
| Lasttestdate: | 8 December |
| Lasttestyear: | 2022 |
| Lasttestagainst: | Australia |
| Odidebutdate: | 8 January |
| Odidebutyear: | 2022 |
| Odidebutagainst: | Ireland |
| Odicap: | 207 |
| Lastodidate: | 9 June |
| Lastodiyear: | 2023 |
| Lastodiagainst: | UAE |
| T20idebutdate: | 13 December |
| T20idebutyear: | 2021 |
| T20idebutagainst: | Pakistan |
| T20icap: | 88 |
| Lastt20idate: | 19 October |
| Lastt20iyear: | 2022 |
| Lastt20iagainst: | Zimbabwe |
| Club1: | Barbados |
| Club2: | St Kitts & Nevis Patriots |
| Year2: | 2016–2017 |
| Columns: | 4 |
| Column1: | Test |
| Matches1: | 13 |
| Runs1: | 553 |
| Bat Avg1: | 23.04 |
| 100S/50S1: | 1/3 |
| Top Score1: | 111 |
| Deliveries1: | – |
| Wickets1: | – |
| Bowl Avg1: | – |
| Fivefor1: | – |
| Tenfor1: | – |
| Best Bowling1: | – |
| Catches/Stumpings1: | 12/0 |
| Column2: | ODI |
| Matches2: | 29 |
| Runs2: | 842 |
| Bat Avg2: | 30.07 |
| 100S/50S2: | 1/4 |
| Top Score2: | 101* |
| Deliveries2: | – |
| Wickets2: | – |
| Bowl Avg2: | – |
| Fivefor2: | – |
| Tenfor2: | – |
| Best Bowling2: | – |
| Catches/Stumpings2: | 14/0 |
| Column3: | FC |
| Matches3: | 99 |
| Runs3: | 4,659 |
| Bat Avg3: | 29.86 |
| 100S/50S3: | 7/27 |
| Top Score3: | 166 |
| Deliveries3: | 791 |
| Wickets3: | 7 |
| Bowl Avg3: | 78.14 |
| Fivefor3: | 0 |
| Tenfor3: | 0 |
| Best Bowling3: | 2/68 |
| Catches/Stumpings3: | 91/0 |
| Column4: | LA |
| Matches4: | 77 |
| Runs4: | 2014 |
| Bat Avg4: | 29.61 |
| 100S/50S4: | 1/12 |
| Top Score4: | 101* |
| Deliveries4: | 60 |
| Wickets4: | 4 |
| Bowl Avg4: | 10.50 |
| Fivefor4: | 0 |
| Tenfor4: | 0 |
| Best Bowling4: | 2/12 |
| Catches/Stumpings4: | 38/0 |
| Date: | 7 January 2024 |
| Source: | http://www.espncricinfo.com/westindies/content/player/230555.html Cricinfo |
Shamarh Shaqad Joshua Brooks (born 1 October 1988) is a Barbadian international cricketer who plays international cricket for West Indies and plays domestic cricket for Barbados. He is a right-handed batsman who occasionally bowls leg-spin and mainly plays as a batsman.[1] He made his international debut for the West Indies in August 2019.[1]
Brooks was seen as a cricket prodigy in his teenage years. He played for the West Indies under-19 cricket team in the 2006 Under-19 Cricket World Cup, made his first-class cricket debut for Barbados in 2007 and captained the West Indies in the 2008 Under-19 Cricket World Cup.[2] [3] He remained in the Barbados national team for several years, but never realized his full potential and after a particularly bad year in 2012, scoring just 76 runs at an average of 8.44, he was dropped from the national team.[3]
Brooks didn't play another first-class match until 2015,[4] but immediately upon his return he scored his maiden first-class century against the Windward Islands.[3] [5] Over the next five years, he scored 3091 runs at an average of 38.63, including five centuries and 20 half-centuries.[3]
Brooks began to make steps towards Test cricket by captaining unofficial Test matches for the West Indies' second team, West Indies A, from 2016. This culminated in the West Indies A series against India A in England in 2018, where he scored 91 in the first match[6] and 121 not out in the second match to finish as the highest run-scorer for the series.[7] [8]
Brooks played for the St Kitts & Nevis Patriots in the Caribbean Premier League, the top-level Twenty20 league in the West Indies, for two seasons in 2016 and 2017. He played 4 matches in each season, and across them both scored 119 runs at an average of 23.80 with a strike-rate of 120.20.[9] [10]
In January 2019, Brooks was named in the West Indies' Test squad for their series against England as a reward for his first-class form,[11] [12] but he did not play. He then captained West Indies A in another series against India A in July and August 2019. Initially he was only meant to captain the final of three unofficial Test matches, with Kraigg Brathwaite captaining the first two,[13] [14] but after an injury to Brathwaite, he stepped in to captain the first two matches as well.[15] Brooks led from the front with half centuries in both of the first two matches,[16] [17] He was then again named in the West Indies' Test squad, this time for their series against India.[18] [19]
Brooks made his Test debut for the West Indies against India on 22 August 2019.[20] In November 2019, in the one-off Test against Afghanistan, Brooks scored his first century in Test cricket, with 111 runs.[21]
In June 2020, Brooks was named in the West Indies' Test squad, for their series against England.[22] The Test series was originally scheduled to start in May 2020, but was moved back to July 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic.[23]
In November 2021, Brooks was named in the West Indies' One Day International (ODI) squad for their series against Pakistan.[24] He made his Twenty20 International (T20I) debut on 13 December 2021, for the West Indies against Pakistan.[25] In December 2021, he was named in the West Indies' ODI squad for their series against Ireland.[26] He made his ODI debut on 8 January 2022, for the West Indies against Ireland.[27]
On 4 June 2022, in the third and final match of the series against the Netherlands, Brooks scored his first century in ODI cricket, with 101 not out.[28]
In December 2022, Brooks replaced Nkrumah Bonner as a concussion substitute on day 3 of the first Test of West Indies tour of Australia.[29]