Kyle Rico Mayers (born 8 September 1992) is a Barbadian

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er. He plays international cricket for

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in all formats. He was also in the West Indies under-19 squad for the

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. In February 2021, on his

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debut, Mayers scored 210

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. He is the son of

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, who also played

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Career

In October 2019, he was selected to play for Barbados in the

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tournament. In November 2019, he traveled to Ft Lauderdale, Florida to participate in the US Open. He represented the Paramveer Tigers along with other international likes of Kjorn Ottley, Ian Cockbain, Max Waller, Delray Rawlins, Alex Blake, Elmore Hutchinson, Ravi Timbawala, Timil Patel, Japen Patel and many more. In January 2020, on the opening day of the

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, Mayers scored his maiden century in

. In June 2020, Mayers was named as one of eleven reserve players in the West Indies'

squad, for their series against England. The Test series was originally scheduled to start in May 2020, but was moved back to July 2020 due to the

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. In July 2020, he was named in the

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squad for the

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. In October 2020, Mayers was also named in the West Indies'

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(T20I) squad for their series against New Zealand. He made his T20I debut for the West Indies on 29 November 2020, against

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. In December 2020, Mayers was named in the West Indies'

and

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(ODI) squads for their series against Bangladesh. He made his ODI debut for the West Indies, against

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, on 20 January 2021. He made his Test debut for the West Indies, also against Bangladesh, on 3 February 2021. On his debut, Mayers scored a century to become the 14th batsman for the West Indies to score a century on debut in Test cricket. He finished his innings on 210

, becoming the sixth batsman to score a double century on his Test debut, guiding the West Indies to a successful chase of 395, the fifth largest in test history. In May 2021, Mayers was awarded with a maiden red-ball central contract from

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. In February 2022, he was bought by the

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in the

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for the

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tournament. On 27 March 2022, Mayers took his first Test match

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against England, in the second innings of the third test of England's tour of West Indies in St. George's. He finished with figures of five for eighteen and with seven

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s in the match. On 4 June 2022, in the third and final match of the series against the Netherlands, Mayers scored his first century in ODI cricket, with 120 runs. He then went on to score another ODI Century this time against New Zealand scoring 105.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Mayers, Kyle 1992 births Living people West Indies Test cricketers West Indies One Day International cricketers West Indies Twenty20 International cricketers Cricketers who made a century on Test debut Barbadian cricketers Barbados Royals cricketers Barbados cricketers Saint Lucia Kings cricketers Windward Islands cricketers Combined Campuses and Colleges cricketers