Samuels announced that he would be stopping his career in professional cricket on November 4, 2020. Already, he had communicated to CWI the fact that he would be retiring in June 2020. On October 9, 2005, when the West Indies were on tour in Australia, Samuels recorded his best first-class score with an innings that was 257 runs throughout the match. The Gabba was the location of the event, which was a tour match versus Queensland. On the ground, his performance set a new record, surpassing Martin Love’s previous best score of 250. In the subsequent innings, he demonstrated his ability to perform well in a variety of situations by taking five wickets.
In 2012, the Bangladesh Cricket Board established the Bangladesh Premier League: a twenty20 event consisting of six teams that was scheduled to take place in February of that same year. During the auction that was organized for clubs to purchase players, Samuels was purchased by the Duronto Rajshahi for the price of 360 thousand dollars. As a result of his 242 runs scored in 11 innings throughout the tournament, he was the team’s leading run-scorer. Samuels agreed to play for Pune Warriors India for the course of the 2012 and 2013 seasons of the Indian Premier League (IPL) after signing a contract with the team in February 2012.
Marlon Samuels Biography
| Name | Marlon Samuels |
| Full Name | Marlon Nathaniel Samuels |
| Date of Birth | 5 February 1981 |
| Place of Birth | Kingston, Jamaica |
| Other Names | God of Cricket, Little Master, Master Blaster |
| Nationality | Jamaican |
| Father’s Name | Philip Samuels |
| Mother’s Name | Daphne Samuels |
| Siblings | Robert Samuels |
| Spouse | NA |
| Marriage Date | NA |
| Children | Dimitri Marlon Samuels |
| Role | Batting |
| Batting | Right-handed |
| Bowling | Right-arm Off Spin |
| ODI Debut | October 04, 2000 vs. Sri Lanka |
| Test Debut | December 15, 2000 vs. Australia |
| Favourite Food | NA |
| Favourite Actor | NA |
| Favourite Actress | NA |
| Favourite Colour | Red |
| Retirement | November 2020 |
Because the Indian Premier League in 2012 was scheduled to coincide with Australia’s tour of the West Indies, Samuels was permitted to forego the three-Test series and instead participate in the league. During the competition, it was reported that he had a bowling motion that was not normal, and as a result, he was disqualified from bowling for the remainder of the competition. The selection of Samuels for the Melbourne Renegades in the Big Bash T20 League for the 2012/2013 season took place in October of 2012.
It was Samuels who was instrumental in Peshawar Zalmi’s victory in the Pakistan Super League in 2017 and Kowloon Cantons’ triumph in the Hong Kong Twenty20 Blitz in 2017. The St. Lucia Stars were the ones that chose him in the eighth round of the Caribbean Premier League draft in 2017, even though he had been successful in previous times. At the beginning of his career, Samuels competed for the Windies in two consecutive Under-19 Cricket World Cups.
Samuels scored sixty runs without being out and forty-six runs in his second test match, which took place at the Melbourne Cricket Ground during the West Indies tour of Australia in the year 2000. In 2002/2003, he went on to achieve his first hundred in a test match, which he did at Kolkata against the Indians. It was against players like as Javagal Srinath, Anil Kumble, and Harbhajan Singh that he scored 104 runs, which was vital in the West Indies’ ability to draw the third test match.
In the series that followed, he scored his maiden one-day international century, which turned out to be the innings that won the series. Samuels hit 108 runs without being out of only 75 balls in the last match of the series, which took place in Vijayawada on November 24, 2002. The series was tied at 3–3 at the time. The final score for the West Indies was 315, and they went on to win by a margin of 135 runs.
Batting & Fielding Stats
| YEAR | MAT | NO | RUNS | HS | AVG | BF | SR | 100 | 50 | 4S | 6S | CT | ST |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Career | 15 | 1 | 161 | 46 | 12.38 | 172 | 93.60 | 0 | 0 | 9 | 7 | 2 | 0 |
| 2017 | 5 | 0 | 29 | 27 | 7.25 | 31 | 93.54 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 |
| 2013 | 2 | 0 | 8 | 5 | 4.00 | 18 | 44.44 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 2012 | 8 | 1 | 124 | 46 | 17.71 | 123 | 100.81 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 5 | 0 | 0 |
In late 2006, Samuels struck his second one-day international century while playing against Pakistan in Multan. With his unbroken 100, the West Indies were able to successfully chase down the Pakistani total, which ultimately resulted in their triumph. An additional month later, when his team was playing the Indians in Chennai, he came close to scoring another century, but his fast-fire 98 helped his team knock down India’s 268 batting score.
In his last international encounter, which took place against England at the 2007 World Cup, Samuels was engaged in the run-out of Brian Lara. Lara was on 18 when Samuels indicated a rapid run, but he was unable to reach the other wicket in time because Kevin Pietersenunder-armed the ball, which caused it to strike the stumps. The West Indies went on a tour to England in May, after their World Cup victory. In an unexpected turn of events, Samuels was not originally named in the squad for the Test leg. However, he was called up as a substitute when Ramnaresh Sarwan sustained an injury.
Bowling
| YEAR | MAT | BALLS | RUNS | WKTS | BBM | AVE | ECON | SR | 4W | 5W |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Career | 15 | 214 | 284 | 9 | 3/39 | 31.56 | 7.96 | 23.78 | 0 | 0 |
| 2017 | 5 | 18 | 34 | 0 | 0/12 | – | 11.33 | – | 0 | 0 |
| 2013 | 2 | 24 | 34 | 1 | 1/34 | 34.00 | 8.50 | 24.00 | 0 | 0 |
| 2012 | 8 | 172 | 216 | 8 | 3/39 | 27.00 | 7.53 | 21.50 | 0 | 0 |
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