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Full name Philip Verant Simmons
Born April 18, 1963, Arima, Trinidad
Current age 45 years 29 days
Major teams West Indies,Border,Durham,Easterns,Leicestershire,Trinidad & Tobago,Wales Minor Counties
Batting style Right-hand bat
Bowling style Right-arm medium
Other Coach
Relations Nephew - LMP Simmons
Batting and fielding averages
Mat
Inns
NO
Runs
HS
Ave
BF
SR
100
50
6s
Ct
St
Tests
26
47
2
1002
110
22.26
1933
51.83
1
4
4
26
0
ODIs
143
138
11
3675
122
28.93
5407
67.96
5
18
55
0
First-class
207
345
17
11682
261
35.61
24
65
241
0
List A
306
296
27
8929
166*
33.19
12
54
137
0
Bowling averages
Mat
Inns
Balls
Runs
Wkts
BBI
BBM
Ave
Econ
SR
4w
5w
10
Tests
26
16
624
257
4
2/34
2/57
64.25
2.47
156.0
0
0
0
ODIs
143
103
3880
2876
83
4/3
4/3
34.65
4.44
46.7
2
0
0
First-class
207
13196
6138
214
7/49
28.68
2.79
61.6
5
0
List A
306
9616
7381
215
5/33
5/33
34.33
4.60
44.7
3
3
0
Career statistics
Test debut
India v West Indies at Chennai, Jan 11-15, 1988 scorecard
Last Test
Pakistan v West Indies at Peshawar, Nov 17-20, 1997 scorecard
Test statistics
ODI debut
Pakistan v West Indies at Lahore, Oct 16, 1987 scorecard
Last ODI
Australia v West Indies at Manchester, May 30, 1999 scorecard
ODI statistics
First-class span
1982/83 - 2000/01
List A span
1982/83 - 2002
Profile
Phil Simmons was an explosive Trinidadian allrounder whose Test record does him no sort of justice. His one Test hundred came against tough opposition at Melbourne in 1992-93, but he made just four other fifties from his 26 starts, most of them as opener. His finest achievement was probably taking Leicestershire to the County Championship with a towering season in 1996, when he collected 1244 runs and 56 wickets - and 35 catches, most of which landed in his bucket-sized hands at slip. Usually a medium-pacer, Simmons bowled quickly that year, reportedly outpacing Devon Malcolm on their one meeting. As a youngster on the 1988 West Indian tour of England, Simmons was hit on the head by David Lawrence in fading light at Bristol: his heart stopped and he needed emergency brain surgery before making a full recovery. He went into coaching, landing the poison chalice of looking after Zimbabwe. Inevitably it ended in tears, and he was sacked in August 2005 amid reports that he was too nice to handle the cut and thrust of running an international side. But a new opportunity arose two years later when he was appointed Ireland's head coach after the 2007 World Cup.
Will Luke, May 2007
