John Eugene (born 16 August 1970) is a former

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n cricketer who played for the

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and several other teams in West Indian domestic cricket. He was a right-handed middle-order batsman. A former Windwards under-19s player, Eugene made his senior debut for the Windward Islands in the 1989–90 Geddes Grant Shield, a limited-overs tournament.List A matches played by John Eugene
– CricketArchive. Retrieved 31 December 2015. His first-class debut came a couple weeks later, in the 1989–90 Red Stripe Cup.First-class matches played by John Eugene
– CricketArchive. Retrieved 31 December 2015. Eugene scored his maiden first-class century the following season, making 111 against

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. At the end of the season, he was selected for a West Indies under-23s side that played a four-day fixture against the touring Australians. Eugene played two further matches for West Indies select teams within the next few years, appearing for West Indies A against England A during the 1991–92 season and then captaining the West Indies under-23s against the touring Pakistanis during the 1992–93 season. Eugene missed several seasons in the late 1990s, but returned to form in the 2000–01 Busta Cup, scoring 406 runs from seven matches to lead the Windwards' run-scoring. His season included an innings of 139 against

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, his highest first-class score. Eugene played his final first-class matches for the Windwards during the

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, and his final

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matches during the 2004–05 Regional One-Day Competition. Although a Saint Lucian by birth, he was for several years a resident of

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, and in 2006 was selected for the Sint Maarten national team at the inaugural

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tournament. He returned for the 2008 edition, aged 37, and against

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in the opening round scored 100 not out from 46 balls, including seven fours and six sixes. His innings was the first century in the competition's history and only the second Twenty20 hundred scored by a West Indian, but was not enough to win his team the match.(2 February 2008)
"Eugene's historic hundred in vain as St Maarten fall short"
– ESPNcricinfo. Retrieved 31 December 2015.

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