A. Johnson Charles, who was born on January 14, 1989, is a cricket player who represents the West Indies and is a member of the St. Lucian national team. Charles began his one-day international debut in March 2012 against Australia, when he played as a wicketkeeper and batsman. After playing his first Twenty20 International (T20I) against England in September 2011, he became just the second cricketer from the island of St. Lucia to play for the West Indies. The first player to do so was Darren Sammy, who was the captain of Charles in his first international appearance.
Johnson was a member of the 15-man West Indies squad that competed in the 2012 ICC World Twenty20 event, which took place in September and October of that year. The West Indies team ended up winning the tournament. In addition to that, Charles was a part of the West Indies side that triumphed in the Twenty20 World Cup in 2016. Being a member of the Kolkata Knight Riders club at the moment. At the Stanford Twenty20, which took place in January 2008, Charles participated in his maiden twenty20 match, where he played for Saint Lucia.
Charles managed to score two runs and twenty-one runs in the only match he participated in throughout the tournament. He opened the batting sequence alongside Keddy Lesporis. Later on in the same year, he made his debut for the Windward Islands in the West Indies Board Cup, which is a regional one-day event from the Caribbean. Charles did not participate in either List A or Twenty20 cricket in 2009 since his performances were not good enough to earn him a spot on the team’s one-day squad.
Despite this, he made his debut in the first-class competition in January of that year and participated in eight matches for the Windward Islands in the Regional Four-Day Competition before retiring. His total of 292 runs, which included a single half-century, earned him the seventh spot on the team’s list of top run-scorers in that year’s tournament. He made 16 appearances at the crease throughout that competitive season. About the Windward Islands, Charles did not participate in the Regional Four-Day Competition that took place in 2009/10.
Johnson Charles Biography
| Name | Johnson Charles |
| Full Name | Johnson Charles |
| Date of Birth | 14 January 1989 |
| Place of Birth | Castries, St. Lucia. |
| Other Names | NA |
| Nationality | St. Lucian |
| Father’s Name | Rupert Harris Johnson |
| Mother’s Name | NA |
| Siblings | NA |
| Spouse | Ann Demarest Lutes. |
| Marriage Date | NA |
| Children | NA |
| Role | Batting |
| Batting | Right-handed |
| Bowling | Right-Arm medium |
| ODI Debut | March 2012 vs. Australia |
| Test Debut | NA |
| Favourite Food | NA |
| Favourite Actor | NA |
| Favourite Actress | NA |
| Favourite Colour | Red |
| Retirement | Still Playing |
However, he made his comeback to the List A side in 2010 for the West Indies Board Cup, and he played his maiden twenty20 match for the team during that tournament. Charles began the batting alongside Devon Smith in the opening match of the Caribbean Twenty20 tournament. He took advantage of multiple opportunities to get his maiden half-century in the format, even though he was dropped three times and came dangerously close to being run out. Cricinfo’s picks for the best XI of the 2016 Caribbean Premier League finally included Charles on the list.
By his participation in the players’ draft that took place on June 3, 2018, he was chosen to represent the Toronto Nationals in the very first edition of the Global T20 Canada event. The selection to play for the Sylhet Thunder in the 2019–20 Bangladesh Premier League took place in November of 2019. The Barbados Tridents announced in July 2020 that he would be a member of their team for the Caribbean Premier League in 2020.
After that, he took Ravi Bopara’s position in the Jaffna Stallions roster for the first season of the Lanka Premier League. Charles hit a cameo of 26 runs with six fours off of 15 balls on December 16, 2020, which contributed to the Stallions’ victory against the Galle Gladiators and culminated in the Stallions winning the LPL championship for the year 2020. Cricinfo subsequently included him on their squad for the Caribbean Premier League in 2022.
Charles, who had been chosen to be a part of the West Indies team for the Twenty20 tournament in 2012, began the batting alongside Chris Gayle in the third match. In the first match, Charles batted after the first wicket was taken, but in the second match, he did not bat since the match was rained out. Charles (who was characterized by ESPNCricinfo as having “little obvious pedigree as an opening batsman”) went on to hit 84 to assist his side in achieving victory against England. This came after Charles had already established a century partnership with Gayle.
Batting & Fielding Stats
| YEAR | MAT | NO | RUNS | HS | AVG | BF | SR | 100 | 50 | 4S | 6S | CT | ST | |
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Bowling
| YEAR | MAT | BALLS | RUNS | WKTS | BBM | AVE | ECON | SR | 4W | 5W | |
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It was his greatest score in any of the three formats of cricket: first-class, List A, and even twenty20. The following month, Charles was removed from the West Indies team that was going to compete against Bangladesh in a one-day international series consisting of five matches. In the fifth one-day international match of the Windies’ tour of Australia in 2012–2013, which took place at the Melbourne Cricket Ground, he achieved his first one-day international century, which consisted of 100 runs with eight fours and a six. In addition, Charles was a member of the Windies team that triumphed in the Twenty20 World Cup in 2016.
The first century that Charles ever made in Twenty20 International cricket came on March 26, 2023, when he hit 118 runs off of only 46 balls in the second Twenty20 International match against South Africa. It was then and there that he achieved the quickest Twenty20 International century by a West Indian cricketer, and he also tied for the second fastest T20I century in the history of the game. He reached his hundred score after just 39 balls. The West Indies were victorious against the Proteas by a score of two to one, and Charles emerged victorious as the man of the series.
On Saturday, as the St. Lucia Kings were playing Trinbago Knight Riders in the Caribbean Premier League, Johnson Charles, who was the starting player for the team, came perilously near to having his face knocked off while attempting a scoop shot. Quite a spectacular turn of events took place here. It was a stroke of good luck that Charles was able to survive the discharge that he got from his helmet as he was attempting to take the shot. He had suffered horrific damage to his face, it was a stroke of luck.
