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| Full name | Khesan Yannick Gabriel Ottley | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 7 September 1991 Preysal, Trinidad | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Batting | Right-handed | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Bowling | Left-arm orthodox | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Relations | Kjorn Ottley (brother) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| 2012 | Combined Campuses | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2012–present | Trinidad and Tobago | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Khesan Yannick Gabriel Ottley (born 7 September 1991) is a Trinidadian cricketer who has played for both Trinidad and Tobago and the Combined Campuses and Colleges in West Indian domestic cricket.
The younger brother of Kjorn Ottley, [1] Yannick Ottley played for the West Indies under-19s at the 2010 Under-19 World Cup in New Zealand. He was named vice-captain to Jamaica's Andre Creary, [2] and captained the team in matches against Papua New Guinea and Bangladesh when Creary injured a groin. Those two matches were in fact Ottley's only games of the tournament,as he struggled with a thigh strain. [3] The previous year,in October 2009,Ottley had also captained the West Indies under-19s at the 2009–10 WICB President's Cup,where matches held List A status. [4]
Ottley made his first-class debut at the 2011–12 Regional Four Day Competition,playing for the Combined Campuses team. [5] He switched to his home team,Trinidad and Tobago,for the 2012–13 season,and has since been a regular in the side. He made appearances for Trinidad and Tobago at the 2012 and 2013 Champions League Twenty20 tournaments,but has not yet been signed to a Caribbean Premier League franchise. [6] During the 2015–16 Regional Four Day Competition,Ottley substituted for Rayad Emrit as captain during his time overseas. [7] Later in the season,he came close to scoring a maiden first-class century,hitting 99 not out against the Windward Islands. [8]
He was the joint-leading wicket-taker in the 2018–19 Regional Super50 tournament,with seventeen dismissals in nine matches. [9] In August 2019,Cricket West Indies named him as the Super 50 Player of the Year. [10] In November 2019,he was named as the vice-captain of Trinidad and Tobago for the 2019–20 Regional Super50 tournament. [11] In February 2020,in the fourth round of the 2019–20 West Indies Championship,Ottley scored his maiden century in first-class cricket. [12]