1. Jerome Everton Taylor was born on 22 June 1984 and is a Jamaican former cricketer who played as a fast bowler for the West Indies.
32 Facts About Jerome Taylor
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Jerome Taylor has featured for Jamaica, English sides Somerset, Leicestershire and Sussex, CPL teams St Lucia Zouks and Jamaica Tallawahs and IPL side Pune Warriors in his cricketing career.
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Jerome Taylor was a member of the West Indies team that won the 2016 T20 World Cup.
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Jerome Taylor is the only bowler to have ever taken a hat-trick in a Champions Trophy match, which he did in the 2006 tournament against Australia, and that was the first hat-trick taken by a West Indian bowler in the ODI format.
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Jerome Taylor made his ODI debut on 11 June 2003, claiming 2 for 39 in the 3rd one day international against Sri Lanka at the Arnos Vale Ground, St Vincent and the Grenadines.
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Jerome Taylor made his debut in the first test played at the Beausejour Stadium in St Lucia.
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Jerome Taylor eventually dismissed Marvan Atapattu to pick up his first test wicket, in the 2nd and final test of the series played at Sabina Park, Jamaica.
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On 30 June 2006, Jerome Taylor picked up his first five wicket haul on day one of the fourth test of India's 2006 tour of the Caribbean.
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Jerome Taylor then established himself as a regular in the ODI side as the Windies' leading wicket-taker during the DLF Cup in Malaysia with eight dismissals.
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Jerome Taylor was selected for the 2006 Champions Trophy and claimed four wickets in the preliminary games against Zimbabwe and Bangladesh.
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Jerome Taylor later took a hat-trick in West Indies' opening group game of the 2006 ICC Champions Trophy against Australia, becoming the first West Indian to achieve such a feat in a one-day international.
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Jerome Taylor finished with four for 49, which was his second-best ODI figures.
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Jerome Taylor picked up a total of 13 wickets to be the leading wicket taker in that edition of the tournament.
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On 20 November 2006, Jerome Taylor claimed 5 for 37 in the first innings of the second test against Pakistan at the Multan Cricket Stadium, Multan.
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Jerome Taylor went on to win the Emerging Player of the Year award at the 2007 WIPA Awards.
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On 7 December 2007 Jerome Taylor claimed a matchwinning haul of 5 for 48 in the 4th ODI against Zimbabwe at the Queens Sports Club, Bulawayo.
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Jerome Taylor was named the man of the match for his feats with the ball in that encounter.
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Jerome Taylor won Jamaica Cricketer of the Year, on 3 December 2008, at the Jamaica Cricket Association's annual function held at the Courtleigh Auditorium in New Kingston.
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On 13 December 2008 Jerome Taylor scored 106, his maiden first-class hundred, in the 1st Test against New Zealand at the University of Otago Oval.
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Jerome Taylor holds the record of the lowest Test batting average among players to have scored a century.
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Jerome Taylor went on to win an ESPNcricinfo award for the best bowling performance in Test Cricket for 2009.
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In September 2014 Jerome Taylor scored 40 and later picked up his 100th test wicket, dismissing Robiul Islam for a duck, with eventual second innings figures of 3 for 39 in the Windies' 296 run second test win over Bangladesh.
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Jerome Taylor later took career best figures of 6 for 47 in the first innings of the second and final test of Australia's 2015 tour of the Caribbean.
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Jerome Taylor joined English county cricket side Leicestershire in the summer of 2007.
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In July 2016 Jerome Taylor joined Caribbean Premier League side St Lucia Zouks.
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On 3 April 2016 Jerome Taylor joined IPL outfit Mumbai Indians, as a replacement for injured Sri Lankan pacer Lasith Malinga, for the remainder of the 2016 IPL season.
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Jerome Taylor later took a hattrick in an eventual defeat to Essex in the One Day Cup.
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Jerome Taylor then moved to Somerset in July 2018 to feature in the county's Vitality Blast campaign.
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Jerome Taylor later took 5 for 15 in a 16 run win over Hampshire at Taunton.
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Jerome Taylor became only the third Hampshire bowler to claim a five wicket haul in T20 cricket.
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Jerome Taylor eventually played 44 matches picking up 22 wickets at an average of 16.64 during his debut season at the club.
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In February 2020 Jerome Taylor signed a three-year deal with Gloucestershire as a Kolpak player.