Birthday special: Jason Holder – Top 3 performances in international cricket
West Indies cricket team is going through a rough patch after failing to qualify for the Super 12 round in the ongoing T20 World Cup 2022 tournament in Australia. West Indies, two times T20 World Cup champions, suffered shocking defeats against Scotland and Ireland in the first-round group stage matches, which resulted in an early exit.
But there were one or two positive individual performances among the squad and one was the former captain Jason Holder’s all-round outings. The experienced all-rounder scored 42 runs from two innings and took five wickets from three innings at an impressive and best economy rate of 4.47.
The 30-year-old right-arm bowling all-rounder made his international debut in February 2013 against Australia in an ODI fixture in Perth. Since then, he has taken 346 wickets and has scored 4998 runs in international cricket. His best performances have come in Test cricket where he has scored three centuries and has taken 142 wickets from just 56 matches so far. He turns the age of 31 on November 5, 2022, so let’s take a look at his top three best performances in international cricket.
A double hat-trick against England on January 30, 2022
Holder took four wickets in four balls to create history in the fifth T20I match against England on January 30, 2022. He took four wickets in the innings’ last over while defending 20 runs and guiding his team to a series win at Barbados, his home ground. Holder became the first West Indies male cricketer to take a hat-trick in the T20I format. He grabbed 15 wickets in a five-match T20I series while bowling his career-best spell of five for 27 in the last game.
202* knock to win the Test match against England on January 25, 2022
West Indies were struggling at 120/6 when Jason Holder walked to the pitch while playing in the number eight position in the second innings of the first Test match against England at Barbados in January 2022. He played one of the best career knocks by smashing unbeaten 202 runs off just 229 balls to help his team score 415/6 and to win a game by 381 runs.
5/27 spell against India in the 4th ODI clash on July 02, 2017
After losing the first two games, Jason Holder produced a match-winning spell by taking five wickets while conceding only 27 runs in a must-win fourth ODI match in Antigua. While defending a low 190-run target, Holder took big wickets of Virat Kohli, Hardik Pandya, and Ravindra Jadeja and also dismissed Umesh Yadav and Mohammed Shami to guide his team to a narrow 11-run win. Holder became the only third West Indies captain to take a five-fer in ODI cricket history.
