Daren Julius Garvey Sammy was born on 20 December 1983 and is a Saint Lucian cricketer who played international cricket for the West Indies.
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49 Facts About Darren Sammy
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Darren Sammy is a two time T20 World Cup winning captain.
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On making his One-Day International debut against Bangladesh in 2004, Darren Sammy became the first person from the island of St Lucia to play international cricket.
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Darren Sammy scored his maiden Test century in May 2012 during a match against England.
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Darren Sammy captained Peshawar Zalmi in the Pakistan Super League from 2017 until 2020, when he stepped down due to fitness.
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Darren Sammy then agreed to a two-year head coaching contract for Peshawar Zalmi.
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On 5 August 2016, Darren Sammy was informed he was being dropped as T20I captain of West Indies.
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In June 2021, Darren Sammy was appointed as a member of the Cricket West Indies Board of Directors as an independent non-member director.
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Darren Sammy was a member of the West Indies team to the 2002 Under-19 World Cup, which was held that year in New Zealand; he made 22 runs and took three wickets.
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Darren Sammy bowled six overs in the match without taking a wicket.
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Darren Sammy played one further match in that season's cup, again succumbing for a duck in the first innings and failing to take a wicket.
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Whilst still a member of the Young Cricketers, Darren Sammy was called to the West Indies to join the University of the West Indies Vice Chancellor's XI against England in a warm-up match.
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Darren Sammy subsequently earned his first West Indies cap in odd circumstances.
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Darren Sammy claimed his first Test wicket when he dismissed Alastair Cook caught by Dwayne Bravo, but his first innings was unremarkable save for his economy, giving up just 1.
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Darren Sammy continued his excellent debut, capturing the wickets of Steve Harmison and Monty Panesar, before snagging Paul Collingwood to end with seven wickets for 66 runs.
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Darren Sammy had just the tenth highest aggregate on a tour that included matches against Scotland and the Netherlands.
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Darren Sammy was called up to the Stanford Superstars, a team compiled by American billionaire Allen Stanford, when Dwayne Bravo pulled out with an injury.
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Darren Sammy was not slated to play the first game, but Shivnarine Chanderpaul had a neck strain that precluded his participation.
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Darren Sammy had a forgettable match in front of his home crowd, but overall, Sammy had had a good series.
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Darren Sammy ended with 51 runs in four innings, the fourth highest aggregate for West Indies, and his 12.
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Darren Sammy had amassed 58 runs, the fifty coming up off just twenty deliveries.
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On 17 October 2010 Darren Sammy was named captain of the West Indies Test team for its tour to Sri Lanka and until the end of the 2011 season, replacing Chris Gayle.
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Darren Sammy took seven wickets in the match, including five in Pakistan's second innings, and was named Man of the Match for his performance.
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The following month Darren Sammy was named T20I player of the year at the West Indies Players Association awards.
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Cricinfo recorded that Darren Sammy led with passion and "bowled his heart out"; he finished with seven wickets from three matches at an average of 38.
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Darren Sammy missed the first ODI through illness, but returned to captain the side in the remaining two.
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Darren Sammy's team won the second match by five wickets, ending a series of 13 defeats against Australia that extended back to 2006.
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Darren Sammy partnered Marlon Samuels in a 204-run stand, the second-highest for the West Indies' seventh wicket.
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Darren Sammy has done enough and should not feel he has one foot in and one foot out as far as the leadership in concerned.
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Darren Sammy guided the team to their first Test series victory since 2009 against a Test side other than minnows Bangladesh and Zimbabwe.
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Darren Sammy carried on his good form with the bat, scoring a half-century in the first Test.
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At the launch of the Caribbean Premier League Darren Sammy was announced as a franchise player for the 2013 tournament.
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Darren Sammy played professionally in the Indian Premier League for Hyderabad, and he was made captain of that franchise in 2014.
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Darren Sammy was then picked up by Kings XI Punjab for the 2017 tournament.
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Darren Sammy played for Peshawar Zalmi in the inaugural Pakistan Super League in 2016.
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Darren Sammy has a reputation for bowling long spells and his medium-fast pace bowling is used to support strike bowlers.
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Darren Sammy feels that because he is a support bowler batsmen relax against him and are more prone to make mistakes.
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Darren Sammy said that he got to know that these were derogatory words after having seen popular comedian and satirist Hasan Minhaj's Patriot Act episode on the Black Lives Matter protests happening all across the United States of America following the murder of George Floyd, an African American by the Minneapolis police officials.
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Darren Sammy said that every time he was called that word, there would be laughter and he thought it was something funny and never thought much about it.
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Darren Sammy then released an Instagram video where he said that he has messaged his teammates asking for an explanation before revealing the names of those that called him racist names.
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Darren Sammy's mother wanted him to become a pastor at the local Adventist Church.
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Darren Sammy has four children- Darren, Darjhan, Skai and Xzavier Reign.
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Darren Sammy has started the Darren Sammy Foundation that works with the youth by giving them scholarships among other things.
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