Tamar Lansford Lambert (born 15 July 1981) is a

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n cricketer who made his debut for the Jamaican national side in September 2000. A right-handed batsman and right-arm

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bowler, he was first named

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of the team during the 2004–05 season, aged 23, and continued to captain Jamaica in most formats of the game until the 2014–15 season.

Playing career

Lambert was born in

Saint Catherine Parish Saint Catherine (capital Spanish Town) is a parish in the south east of Jamaica. It is located in the county of Middlesex, and is one of the island's largest and most economically valued parishes because of its many resources. It includes the f ...

. His senior debut for Jamaica came at the age of 19, when he played a

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match against a touring South Africa A team.List A matches played by Tamar Lambert
– CricketArchive. Retrieved 29 December 2015. After that match, Lambert did not play again until January 2004, when he made his first-class debut against the

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in the 2003–04 Carib Beer Cup.First-class matches played by Tamar Lambert
– CricketArchive. Retrieved 29 December 2015. Against

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during the 2006–07 season of the same tournament, he recorded a maiden first-class century, 110 from 218 balls. During the

2008–09 Regional Four Day Competition The 2008–09 Regional Four Day Competition was the 43rd domestic first-class cricket tournament held in the West Indies, it took place from 9 January 2009 – 14 April 2009. Each team played the other twice, one played at home and the other away ...

, Lambert scored 759 runs from 12 matches, making him Jamaica's leading run-scorer (and seventh in the competition). His season included only a single century, however, an innings of 143 against

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. The following season, Lambert took his first and only first-class five-wicket haul, 8/42 against the

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, also finishing with match figures of 10/63. Only two Jamaicans have taken better figures in a first-class innings (

Gavin Wallace Gavin Wallace (born 22 December 1984) is a Jamaican cricketer. He made his first-class debut for the Combined Campuses and Colleges cricket team Combined may refer to: * Alpine combined (skiing), the combination of slalom and downhill skiing ...

and

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 ...

).Most wickets in an innings for Jamaica
– CricketArchive. Retrieved 29 December 2015.

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