Miguel Lamar Cummins (born 5 September 1990) is a Barbadian

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er who has played in 14 Test matches and 11 One Day Internationals (ODI) for the

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. At domestic level, he plays for

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. He has played for both Antigua Hawksbills, Trinidad and Tobago Red Steel in the

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(CPL) and

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Early career

From Saint Michael Parish, Cummins attended Parkinson Memorial Secondary School, best known as the high school attended by

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. Aged 17, he spent the 2010 English season playing club cricket for Wavertree in the

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's second division, and led the club's batting and bowling averages. Cummins made his first-class season for Barbados two years later, playing a single match in the

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.First-class matches played by Miguel Cummins (20)
– CricketArchive. Retrieved 3 August 2014. He became a regular in the Barbados side in 2013, taking 35 wickets from eight matches, including three-wicket hauls. This total was beaten only by

Nikita Miller Nikita O'Brien Miller (born 16 May 1982) is a West Indian cricketer who plays international cricket for the West Indies and domestic cricket for Jamaica. He is a slow left-arm orthodox bowler and lower-order batsman. He was the leading wicket ta ...

(

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), Shane Shillingford (

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), and

Ashley Nurse Ashley Renaldo Nurse (born 22 December 1988) is a West Indian cricketer who plays first-class, List A and Twenty20 cricket for Barbados. He is a right-arm off-break bowler and a right-handed batsman. International career Nurse made his Twenty ...

(Barbados), and was the most by any

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. Barbados won the competition, defeating

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in the final by an innings and 22 runs. Cummins took nine wickets in the final (5/30 and 4/75), and was named

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. Earlier in the season, against the same team, he had taken 7/45, the best figures of his career.

Later career and move to England

Cummins' good form led to his selection for West Indies A in two series later in 2013. He played a single match against Sri Lanka in June, and then six matches (both first-class and limited-overs) against

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when the West Indians toured the country in September. Ireland toured the West Indies in early 2014 to play one ODI and two

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(T20I) matches, with Cummins named in the West Indies' senior ODI squad. On his international debut, he took 1/42 from six overs, having

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caught down the leg side. During the same over, he had bowled three consecutive

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s, two of which were hit for sixes by Porterfield. Cummins played for the Trinidad and Tobago Red Steel and the Antigua Hawksbills in the first and second seasons of the

(CPL), respectively. A graduate of the

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(WIHPC), he was named Emerging Player of the Year at the 2014 WIPA/WICB Awards, which recognised performances during the previous season. On 30 July 2016 he made his Test cricket debut for the West Indies against India. In October 2018,

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(CWI) awarded him a red-ball contract for the 2018–19 season. In October 2019, Cummins signed a three-year deal with

in England, as a Kolpak player, therefore ruling him out of playing international cricket for the West Indies. Later the same month, he was selected to play for Barbados in the 2019–20 Regional Super50 tournament. Following the discontinuation of the Kolpak scheme in 2021, Cummins joined

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for the start of the English season as one of the club's overseas players.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Cummins, Miguel 1990 births Living people People from Saint Michael, Barbados Antigua Hawksbills cricketers Barbadian cricketers Barbados cricketers Kent cricketers Middlesex cricketers Trinbago Knight Riders cricketers Worcestershire cricketers West Indian cricketers of the 21st century West Indies Test cricketers West Indies One Day International cricketers

Early career

Later career and move to England

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