Xavier Melbourne Marshall (born 27 March 1986) is a Jamaican-American

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er. He played for the

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as a

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. Since January 2019, he has represented the United States cricket team.

International career

Marshall represented the West Indies at the

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in Sri Lanka. His performance helped the West Indies progress to the semi-finals of the competition. He scored 106 from 133 balls as the West Indies beat

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by 34 runs. He played 11 youth One Day Internationals (ODI), scoring 554 runs at an average of 50.36, with a best score of 106. On 14 January 2005, Marshall made his ODI debut. Batting at number four, he scored five runs from 10 balls against

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. He was also in the West Indies' ODI squad for the five-match series against South Africa. On 22 August 2008, Marshall broke the record for most sixes scored in an ODI, previously shared by Sanath Jayasuria and

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. He hit 12 sixes in a score of 157* from 118 balls against

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as the West Indies won the match by 49 runs. This record stood until 11 April 2011, when Shane Watson hit 15 sixes against

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Failed drug test

In September 2008, Marshall was training for the Stanford Super Series and was forced to withdraw from the team when it became public that he had tested positive in a pre-Series drug test. The

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did not announce what substance Marshall had tested positive, but they later announced that they would not be taking action against Marshall, because he was not participating in a West Indies uniform at the time.

Move to the United States

In January 2018, he was named in the

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squad for the 2017–18 Regional Super50 tournament in the West Indies. 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. As a result, he became the seventh cricketer to represent two international teams in T20Is. In April 2019, he was named in the United States cricket team's squad for the

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tournament in Namibia. On 24 April 2019, in the match against

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, Marshall scored his first century for the United States. The United States finished in the top four places in the tournament, therefore gaining

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(ODI) status. Marshall made his ODI debut for the United States on 27 April 2019, against

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, in the tournament's third-place playoff and became the 11th cricketer to represent two international teams in ODIs. He was the leading run-scorer for the United States in the tournament, with 182 runs in six matches. In June 2019, he was named in a 30-man training squad for the United States cricket team, ahead of the Regional Finals of the 2018–19 ICC T20 World Cup Americas Qualifier tournament in Bermuda. The following month, he was one of five players to sign a 12-month central contract with

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. In August 2019, he was named in the United States' squad for the Regional Finals of the 2018–19 ICC T20 World Cup Americas Qualifier tournament. In November 2019, he was named in the United States' squad for the

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tournament. 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 October 2021, he was named in the American squad for the 2021 ICC Men's T20 World Cup Americas Qualifier tournament in Antigua.

Awards

Xavier Marshall was named the West Indian Youth Cricketer of the Year in June 2005. Retrieved on 23 August 2008.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Marshall, Xavier 1986 births Living people American cricketers Jamaican cricketers West Indies One Day International cricketers West Indies Test cricketers West Indies Twenty20 International cricketers United States One Day International cricketers 21st-century American sportsmen United States Twenty20 International cricketers Jamaica cricketers Cricketers from Saint Ann Parish Jamaican emigrants to the United States American sportspeople of Jamaican descent Dual international cricketers