Steven Taylor (American Cricketer)
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Steven Ryan Taylor (born November 9, 1993) is an American
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. He has played for the
United States national cricket team The United States men's national cricket team is the team that represents the United States in international cricket. The team was formerly organized by the United States of America Cricket Association (USACA), which became an List of Interna ...
since 2010 and previously captained the team. He is a left-handed top-order batsman and bowls right-arm
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; early in his career he also played as a
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. He has also played in West Indian domestic cricket including for several teams in the
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(CPL).


Career


Early years

He was born in South Florida to Jamaican parents, Loveth and Sylvan Taylor. Along with being a left-handed batsman who often opened the batting, he was also a
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. He was taught at an early age on the sidelines of grounds around Florida by his father, Sylvan, and later by his mentor, former USA left-handed batsman Mark Johnson. Taylor later became the first 14-year-old to hit half centuries in the South Florida Cricket Alliance (SFCA) and the Keith Graham Memorial Classic (now the SFCA Sims Cup Classic). The innings, against Pakistan, was while he was representing a SFCA Youth Team, and included 4 fours and 3 sixes off 33 balls and lasted 41 minutes. He then scored 212, 206, and 51 off Big Broward Cricket Academy, the Atlanta-based Cricket Academy of USA, and the Michigan Cricket Academy. In the SFCA Sims Classic, he was left unbeaten on 87 against India, and 75 against Pakistan. He was the youngest player in the SFCA Premier Division.


U-19 career

Taylor was selected for the
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at the
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in
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. He played in the tournament as a wicketkeeper-batsman. Taylor was selected as vice-captain for the ICC Americas Under-19 Championship held in their own ground at Florida, in the 2010–11 season. He was also the
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-batsman on that tournament. USA won that tournament unbeaten, and Taylor too had a successful tournament finishing third on the top run-getters' list with 157 runs from 5 games with a top score of 83, and also topped the most dismissals' list with 7 dismissals (5 catches, 2 stumpings) from 5 games.


International career

Following his performances in the domestic and Under-19 arena, he was given the call-up to play in USA's
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campaign, where they had gained promotion from Division Five. USA won the tournament, demolishing Italy in the final, with Taylor playing throughout the tournament. In the
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, however, USA could not replicate their past success, finishing 5th out of 6 teams. They were thus relegated back to Division Four. In 2012 Taylor was selected as to be a part of the
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at the
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in the
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in March 2012. Later in the same year he was selected for the
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which takes place from September 3 to 10, 2012 in
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. Taylor became the first U.S. batsman to record a
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in
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competition in the 2013 ICC World Cricket League Americas Region Twenty20 Division One tournament in March 2013. He scored 101 off 62 balls against Bermuda. He added a second century when he scored 127
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against the Cayman Islands. Later in the year, he represented the United States in the
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, where he led all batters with 274 runs, for a run rate of 45.66. He scored a century in that tournament when he scored 162 in the opening match against Nepal. Taylor was named in America's squad for the
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, but withdrew after securing a contract with
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in the
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. He is included in the draft of foreign players for final of Pakistan Super League 2017 at
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Lahore to bring back cricket back to
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. In the draft for the 2017 Caribbean Premier League, he was picked in round 8 by the
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, securing a $30,000 contract. On May 30, 2017, during the third-place playoff in the 2017 ICC World Cricket League Division Three tournament, Taylor scored his 1,000th run in one-day cricket, becoming the fourth player for the United States to reach the landmark. In August 2018, he was named in the United States' squad for the 2018–19 ICC World Twenty20 Americas Qualifier tournament in
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. In October 2018, he was named in the United States' squads for the
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tournament in the West Indies and for the
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tournament in Oman. In February 2019, he was named in the United States'
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(T20I) squad for their series against the United Arab Emirates. The matches were the first T20I fixtures to be played by the United States cricket team. He made his T20I debut for the United States against the
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on 15 March 2019. In April 2019, he was named in the United States cricket team's squad for the
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tournament in Namibia. The United States finished in the top four places in the tournament, therefore gaining
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(ODI) status. Taylor made his ODI debut for the United States on 27 April 2019, against
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, in the tournament's third-place playoff. In June 2019, he was named in a 30-man training squad for the
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, ahead of the Regional Finals of the 2018–19 ICC T20 World Cup Americas Qualifier tournament in Bermuda. Later the same month, he was selected to play for the Montreal Tigers franchise team in the
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tournament. However, in July 2019, Taylor withdrew from the Global T20 Canada tournament, after signing a 12-month central contract with
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. In August 2019, he was named as the vice-captain of the United States' squad for the Regional Finals of the 2018–19 ICC T20 World Cup Americas Qualifier tournament. He was the leading run-scorer for the United States in the tournament, with 144 runs in six matches. In November 2019, he was named as the vice-captain of the United States' squad for the
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tournament. In October 2021, he was named in the American squad for the
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tournament in Antigua. In June 2022, Taylor scored his first century in an ODI match, with 114 runs against
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in
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of the 2019–2023 ICC Cricket World Cup League 2 competition.


Domestic career

Taylor made his first-class debut, playing for
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, in the
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on November 9, 2017. In June 2021, he was selected to take part in the
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tournament in the United States following the players' draft. In March 2023, Taylor was roped into the
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squad for the inaugural edition of
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in the player draft. In October 2024, Taylor was picked by the
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in the players draft of
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.


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{{DEFAULTSORT:Taylor, Steven 1993 births Living people Sportspeople from Hialeah, Florida American cricketers American sportspeople of Jamaican descent Barbados Royals cricketers ICC Americas cricketers Cricket in Florida Jamaica cricketers United States One Day International cricketers United States Twenty20 International cricketers 21st-century African-American sportsmen Wicket-keepers 21st-century American sportsmen