Personal information | |
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Born | Gros Islet, Saint Lucia | 16 August 1970
Batting | Right-handed |
Bowling | Right-arm medium |
Domestic team information | |
Years | Team |
1990–2004 | Windward Islands |
2001 | Northern Windward Islands |
2002 | Rest of Windward Islands |
Source:CricketArchive,28 December 2015 |
John Eugene (born 16 August 1970) is a former Saint Lucian cricketer who played for the Windward Islands and several other teams in West Indian domestic cricket. He was a right-handed middle-order batsman.
A former Windwards under-19s player,Eugene made his senior debut for the Windward Islands in the 1989–90 Geddes Grant Shield,a limited-overs tournament. [1] His first-class debut came a couple weeks later,in the 1989–90 Red Stripe Cup. [2] Eugene scored his maiden first-class century the following season,making 111 against Barbados. [3] At the end of the season,he was selected for a West Indies under-23s side that played a four-day fixture against the touring Australians. Eugene played two further matches for West Indies select teams within the next few years,appearing for West Indies A against England A during the 1991–92 season and then captaining the West Indies under-23s against the touring Pakistanis during the 1992–93 season. [2]
Eugene missed several seasons in the late 1990s,but returned to form in the 2000–01 Busta Cup,scoring 406 runs from seven matches to lead the Windwards' run-scoring. [4] His season included an innings of 139 against Guyana,his highest first-class score. [5] Eugene played his final first-class matches for the Windwards during the 2002–03 Carib Beer Cup, [2] and his final List A matches during the 2004–05 Regional One-Day Competition. [1] Although a Saint Lucian by birth,he was for several years a resident of Sint Maarten,and in 2006 was selected for the Sint Maarten national team at the inaugural Stanford 20/20 tournament. He returned for the 2008 edition,aged 37,and against Saint Vincent and the Grenadines in the opening round scored 100 not out from 46 balls,including seven fours and six sixes. [6] His innings was the first century in the competition's history and only the second Twenty20 hundred scored by a West Indian,but was not enough to win his team the match. [7]