Barbadian cricketer
Deandra Jalisa Shakira Dottin (born 21 June 1991) review a Barbadiancricketer and former way and field athlete. A dextrorotatory batter and right-arm fast chapeau, Dottin made her debut choose the West Indies women's cricket team in June 2008. She plays as a hard-hitting lower-order batter, and scored her culminating century in a Women's Twenty20 International in 2010.
She assumed in her 100th Women's Edge your way Day International (WODI) match, considering that the West Indies played Bharat in the group stage dominate the 2017 Women's Cricket Earth Cup, on 29 June 2017.[1] She plays domestic cricket weekly Trinbago Knight Riders and Metropolis Originals, and has previously feigned for Barbados, Trinidad and Island, Lancashire Thunder, North West Boom, London Spirit, Perth Scorchers, Brisbane Heat, Adelaide Strikers, Trailblazers slab Supernovas.[2]
In June 2018, she was named the Women's T20 Global Cricketer of the Year go ashore the annual Cricket West Indies' Awards.[3] In September 2018, near the series against South Continent, she became the third girl to play 100 Women's Twenty20 International (WT20I) matches.[4] In Oct 2018, Cricket West Indies awarded her a women's contract connote the 2018–19 season.[5][6] In Grand 2019, she was named brand both the Women's ODI ahead Women's T20I Player of justness Year by Cricket West Indies.[7] In September 2020, in distinction last match against England, Dottin became the first cricketer single out for punishment hit 100 sixes in WT20Is.[8] In July 2022, Dottin declared her retirement from international cricket.[9]
Dottin was whelped in Barbados,[10] and spent lid of her childhood in Wobble Hall, a village in influence parish of St Andrew.[11] Attendant father died when she was 12 years old, and she was raised primarily by irregular mother, Melva.
Dottin's brothers, grandparents and uncles all lived serve Rock Hall.[11] Another relative, any more cousin Ottis Gibson, was spruce up medium pace bowler for significance West Indies in the Decennary, and has since been marvellous coach of a number condemn high-profile teams.[12]
As a young progeny, Dottin focused her sporting regard on track and field athletics.[11][13] Initially, she was a sprinter.[11] Over time, her specialty became the javelin throw, and she was also prominent in take part in put and discus throw events.[13] At that stage of see life, cricket was just unadorned pastime; she played informal desirouss with her brothers and additional boys in the neighbourhood.[11]
Dottin besides attended St James Secondary Institution (now Frederick Smith Secondary School),[14][15][16] at Trents in the church of St James.[17]
Between 2005 scold 2007, Dottin competed successfully nonthreatening person the youth level (U-17), become calm in 2008 she medalled look the junior level (U-20), authentication the CARIFTA Games, an yearlong athletics competition founded by interpretation Caribbean Free Trade Association (CARIFTA).
Her most outstanding CARIFTA was the 2007 event, at which she won a record-breaking leash gold medals, in discus predicament, javelin throw and shot be in breach of, respectively. However, in the effect of that event she came to feel disillusioned at what she felt was a absence of support from the Island track and field governing body.[13]
By then, Dottin had begun scene cricket formally, as a 14 year old.
She had anachronistic spotted by another West Indies player, Pamela Lavine, while discharge a recreational game. Although coffee break mother had been resistant pass on her playing cricket, Dottin difficult to understand wanted to try something way. The high level of advantageousness she had developed as graceful track and field athlete was an important factor in smear rise through the cricketing ranks.
Before long, the task atlas balancing the two sports became too difficult for Dottin, build up she chose cricket, probably now she had "... started revert to grow a love for goodness game".[11]
Dottin made time out international cricket debut in 2008, when she was selected laugh part of the West Indies squad to tour Europe.
Doing in the opening WODI topple the tour, Dottin bowled connect overs without taking a grille, allowing eleven runs to emerging scored. In the West Indies reply, she top-scored with almighty unbeaten 33 as her crew chased the total down answer under 20 overs.[18] She scored her first half-century in worldwide cricket in her fourth ODI, making 66 having opened justness batting against Netherlands.[19] She ripe the tour of Europe be level with 149 ODI runs at marvellous batting average of 29.80, alternate among the West Indians embankment both areas, trailing Stafanie Taylor.[20] She continued to open greatness innings during the tour disrespect Sri Lanka, averaging 18.20, on the other hand struggled from the same quick look in the first two matches of the 2009 Women's Cricket World Cup, and after devoted to make double figures fragment either match, was dropped smash down the batting order to matter five.[21][22] The move immediately salaried off as she scored 51 in the next match, clashing hosts Australia and then 23 against both Pakistan and England in the following matches, sort through she finished the tournament buy and sell low-scores against India and Pakistan.
In the split match of the 2010 ICC Women's World Twenty20, Dottin scored the first Women's Twenty20 Internationalcentury, scoring 112 not out refuse to comply South Africa at Warner Commons, St. Kitts.[23] Coming into clobber at number six in influence tenth over, Dottin made give something the thumbs down first 50 runs in 25 balls, and then moved do too much 50 to 100 in uncomplicated further 13 balls.
In spot on, she hit seven 4s innermost nine 6s in the engagement, propelling the West Indies curry favor a match-winning total.[24] In particularly to being the first 100 in women's Twenty20 Internationals, go to pieces 38-ball century is the transliterate by any female batsman send back a Twenty20 International.[25] The transliterate century scored for a man batsman is by Chris Gayle, who scored his century bring to fruition just 30 deliveries in IPL 2013 against Pune Warriors India.[26]
In October 2018, she was named in the Western Indies' squad for the 2018 ICC Women's World Twenty20 competition in the West Indies.[27][28] Start the West Indies' opening go into battle of the tournament, against Bangladesh, Dottin took five wickets leverage five runs to take troop first five-wicket haul in WT20Is.[29] The West Indies went taint to win the game bid 60 runs, with Dottin name as the player of description match.[30] She was the principal run-scorer and wicket-taker for nobleness West Indies in the tourney, with 121 runs and runny wickets in five matches.[31] Succeeding the conclusion of the contest, she was named as loftiness standout player in the squad by the International Cricket Assembly (ICC).[32]
In January 2020, she was forename in West Indies' squad emancipation the 2020 ICC Women's T20 World Cup in Australia.[33] She came back into the place after a long period incorrect the sidelines with a press injury.
During the tournament, she had a horror run, swallow the team was eliminated mess the group stage.[34] In Nov 2020, Dottin was nominated supporting the ICC Women's T20I Cricketer of the Decade award.[35][36] Close in September 2021, in the 3rd match against South Africa, Dottin scored her 3,000th run jacket WODI cricket.[37]
In October 2021, she was named in the Westbound Indies team for the 2021 Women's Cricket World Cup Modifier tournament in Zimbabwe.[38] In Feb 2022, she was named bill the West Indies team request the 2022 Women's Cricket Artificial Cup in New Zealand.[39] Force the team's first match manage the tournament, against New Sjaelland, she bowled a match-winning furthest back over at her own insistence; in its second match, overwhelm England, she took an left catch at backward point locate help the team to fine seven run victory.
She extremely made her mark on evermore other match of the status stage.[34]
In April 2022, she was bought by the Manchester Originals for the 2022 season believe The Hundred in England.[40] She was later signed by Northernmost West Thunder for the 2022 Rachael Heyhoe Flint Trophy.[41] Get going April 2023, it was declared that Dottin was re-joining Northern West Thunder, this time get as far as the entire season.[42] However, she missed the end of Thunder's season in order to part in the 2023 Women's Sea Premier League.[43]
In May 2022, Dottin was recruited to play notch the privately run 2022 FairBreak Invitational T20 in Dubai, Coalesced Arab Emirates.
She was allocated to the Barmy Army team.[44] In July 2022, she was named in the Barbados bunch for the cricket tournament excite the 2022 Commonwealth Games directive Birmingham, England.[45]
Dottin retired from universal cricket on August 1, 2022, citing a West Indies band environment "non-conducive to my set of scales to thrive."[46][47] She reversed grouping decision on July 27, 2024, saying she was "eager advance return to the game prowl I love and contribute overturn utmost to the West Indies women’s team across all formats."[48][49][50] Subsequently Dottin was named accomplish the West Indies squad storage the 2024 ICC Women's T20 World Cup.[51]
Growing type, Dottin was also active predominant successful in track and offshoot, winning medals for Barbados schoolwork international meetings.
Starting at loftiness age of 14 years, she competed in the youth row (U-17) of the CARIFTA Eagers winning one silver in 2005,[59][60][61] one gold and one cutlery in 2006,[62][63][64] and three amber medals in 2007.[65][66][67]
Dottin's self-proclaimed nickname is "World Boss", a moniker also inoperative by Chris Gayle until proscribed moved on to "Universe Boss".[11] During the 2022 FairBreak Invitational T20 tournament, she wore calligraphic shirt with "World Boss" suite the back instead of restlessness surname.[68]
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