Kevin Andre Stoute (born 12 November 1985) is a Barbadian cricketer who played for the Barbadian national side in West Indian domestic cricket. He is a right-handed pace-bowling

all-rounder An all-rounder is a cricketer who regularly performs well at both batting and bowling. Although all bowlers must bat and quite a handful of batsmen do bowl occasionally, most players are skilled in only one of the two disciplines and are consi ...

. Stoute was born in Black Rock, in Barbados' Saint Michael Parish. He made his first-class debut for Barbados during the 2006–07 Carib Beer Cup, aged 21.First-class matches played by Kevin Stoute
– CricketArchive. Retrieved 29 December 2015. Stoute recorded his maiden first-class five-wicket haul towards the end of the following season, taking 6/64 in the second innings of a match against

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. During the

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, Stoute made 604 runs from nine matches, with only two Barbadians,

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and

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, scoring more. His season included two centuries – an even 100 against the

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, followed by 186 against

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two games later. In 2010, Stoute was selected to tour England and Ireland with the West Indies A team. In a one-off limited-overs fixture against

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on the tour, he took figures of 8/52 from nine overs, although his performance was not enough to win his team the match. Stoute became only the third West Indian to take eight wickets in a

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innings, after

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and

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, and only the tenth person overall. Before that match, he had only taken four wickets in his previous List A career. Despite also finishing as one of the leading run-scorers on the tour, with three half-centuries in six innings, Stoute has not made further appearances for West Indies A (or similar teams). For Barbados, he added another first-class century during the

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, 114 against the Leeward Islands, and also took 5/29 against

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during the following season of the competition. Stoute made his captaincy debut for Barbados during the

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. In June 2020, he was selected by the

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, in the players' draft hosted by

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ahead of the 2020–21 domestic season.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Stoute, Kevin 1985 births Living people Barbadian cricketers Barbados cricketers Cricketers from Saint Michael, Barbados