Gregory Taylor (cricketer)

Gregory Tyrone Taylor (born 14 December 1987) is a Bahamas cricketer and the captain of the Bahamas national cricket team. Taylor is a left-handed batsman who also bowls as a left-arm bowler. Taylor also played as an occasional wicketkeeper.

Gregory Taylor
Personal information
Full name
Gregory Tyrone Taylor
Born (1987-12-14) 14 December 1987 (age 36)
BattingLeft-handed
RoleWicket-keeper
International information
National side
T20I debut (cap 10)7 November 2021 v Canada
Last T20I4 March 2023 v Bermuda
Career statistics
Competition T20I
Matches 11
Runs scored 131
Batting average 11.90
100s/50s 0/0
Top score 32
Balls bowled 168
Wickets 10
Bowling average 18.10
5 wickets in innings 0
10 wickets in match 0
Best bowling 3/27
Catches/stumpings 5/–
Source: Cricinfo, 5 March 2023

Biography

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Taylor made his debut for the Bahamas in the 2004 Americas Affiliates Championship against the Turks and Caicos Islands.

Taylor made his Twenty20 debut for the Bahamas in the 1st round of the 2008 Stanford 20/20 against Jamaica, where he scored 10 runs and stumped Xavier Marshall off the bowling of Narendra Ekanayake.[1]

Taylor represented the Bahamas in the 2008 ICC World Cricket League Division Five and in the 2010 ICC Americas Championship Division 2.[2] He captained the side in the 2010 ICC World Cricket League Division Eight, gaining the man-of-the-match award in their win over Gibraltar. Taylor represented the Bahamas in the 2010 ICC Americas Championship Division 1.

In July 2019, he was named in the Bahamian squad for their tour of Bermuda.[3]

In October 2021, Taylor was named as the captain of the Bahamas Twenty20 International (T20I) squad for the 2021 ICC Men's T20 World Cup Americas Qualifier tournament in Antigua.[4] He made his T20I debut on 7 November 2021, for the Bahamas against Canada.[5]

References

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  1. ^ "The Home of CricketArchive". CricketArchive.
  2. ^ "Other matches played by Gregory Taylor". Archived from the original on 11 February 2015. Retrieved 9 September 2017.
  3. ^ @BahamasCricket1 (24 July 2019). "National team training for Bermuda" (Tweet) – via Twitter.
  4. ^ "Bahamas Men's squad announced for T20 World Cup Americas qualifiers in Antigua". Czar Sportz. Retrieved 20 October 2021.
  5. ^ "2nd Match, North Sound, Nov 7 2021, ICC Men's T20 World Cup Americas Region Qualifier". ESPNcricinfo. Retrieved 7 November 2021.
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