Jason Omar Holder was born on 5 November 1991 and is a Barbadian cricketer and the former captain of the West Indies cricket team.
44 Facts About Jason Holder
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Jason Holder is a right arm fast bowling all-rounder who features in all three cricketing formats.
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Jason Holder is the first West Indian male cricketer to take a hat-trick in a T20i, and the fifth, to achieve both 2000 runs and 100 wickets in one day internationals.
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Jason Holder was a member of the West Indies team that won the 2016 T20 World Cup.
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Jason Holder was given a batting promotion by the Sunrisers Hyderabad, who sent him to bat ahead of all-rounders Karn Sharma and Parvez Rasool.
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Jason Holder scored 22 runs at 5.50 and took 2 wickets at 51.50 in all those four matches he played.
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Jason Holder is bought by Rajasthan Royals to play in the IPL 2023 season for INR.
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Jason Holder made his ODI debut on 1 February 2013 against Australia.
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Jason Holder made his Test debut on 26 June 2014 against New Zealand.
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Jason Holder did not take any wickets in the first innings, but bowled economically with four maidens.
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Jason Holder scored 90 runs in the match, including his maiden Test fifty.
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Jason Holder was made the captain of the national team in ODI format by the West Indies Cricket Board selectors, after they sacked previous captain Dwayne Bravo.
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Jason Holder became the second youngest test captain of all time for the West Indies and 15th youngest of all time for any Test Nation.
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Jason Holder led his team to quarter finals of the 2015 World Cup where they lost to New Zealand.
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Jason Holder scored a 26-ball 42 in their last match against New Zealand in the quarter final.
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In September 2015 Jason Holder was appointed as the Windies' new captain.
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On 2 July 2017, Jason Holder took his maiden ODI five-wicket haul, in a low scoring game against India.
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Jason Holder handled his bowlers and himself very well in the match, and the West Indies won the match by 11 runs.
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On 15 March 2018, Jason Holder became the fastest player for the West Indies, in terms of matches, to score 1,000 runs and take 100 wickets in ODIs.
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Jason Holder made the Test Team announced at the ICC Awards for the year as the only West Indies player in the team.
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In January 2019, Jason Holder scored his first double century in first-class cricket in his team's second innings of the First Test at home against England at the Kensington Oval, his home ground.
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Jason Holder struck a 295-run partnership with Shane Dowrich for the eight wicket helping his team secure a lead of 627 runs over England.
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The West Indies went on to win the match by 381 runs, their greatest victory at home in terms of runs, and Jason Holder was named man of the match.
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Jason Holder occupied the top spot in the all-rounders rankings announced following the match, the first West Indies player since Garfield Sobers in 1974.
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On 17 June 2019, in the match against Bangladesh, Jason Holder played in his 100th ODI match.
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On 27 June 2019, in the match against India, Jason Holder played in his 150th international match for the West Indies.
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On 1 July 2019, in the match against Sri Lanka, Jason Holder became the first captain of the West Indies to take 100 wickets in ODIs.
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On 31 August 2019, in the second Test against India, Jason Holder took his 100th wicket in Test cricket.
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In June 2020, Jason Holder was named as the captain of the West Indies' Test squad, for their series against England.
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On 21 March 2021, Jason Holder claimed 5 for 27 against Sri Lanka upon the opening day of the first test at the Sir Vivian Richards Stadium.
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Jason Holder later scored 71 not out in the second and final test, held at the said stadium, of Sri Lanka's 2021 tour of the Caribbean.
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On 14 April 2021, Jason Holder was named one of Wisden's Five Cricketers of the Year.
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Jason Holder later scored 52, on 24 July 2021, to help the Windies win the second ODI of a three match series against Australia held at the Kensington Oval, Barbados.
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Jason Holder was the third highest run scorer, after Babar Azam and Fawad Alam respectively, with a sum of 147 runs in that test series.
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In September 2021, Jason Holder was named as one of four reserve players in the West Indies cricket squad for the 2021 ICC Men's T20 World Cup.
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In January 2022, Jason Holder was named in the West Indies' squad for their T20I home series against England.
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Jason Holder became the first bowler for West Indies to take a hat-trick in T20Is.
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Jason Holder became the fourth bowler to take four wickets in four balls in T20Is.
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On 6 February 2022 Jason Holder notched 57 in the first game of a three match ODI series against India held at Ahmedabad's Narendra Modi Stadium.
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Jason Holder thus became only the fifth west indian to achieve both 2,000 runs and 100 wickets in one day internationals.
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Jason Holder later claimed 4 for 34 in the third and final ODI of that said series.
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On 1 March 2023 Jason Holder picked up his 150th test wicket, trapping Keegan Petersen lbw, in the first test match of the Windies 2023 tour of South Africa.
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Jason Holder later scored 81 not out in the second test against the Proteas at the Wanderers Stadium in Johannesburg.
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Jason Holder is a fan of Premier League football club Tottenham Hotspur and in February 2022 became the brand ambassador for BookBarbados.