Jason Holder Wiki/ Biography
Jason Omar Holder also is known as Jason holder is the Barbadian player, who was born on 5th of November 1991. Currently, he is playing as the captain of the West Indian team. His birthplace in Barbados. According to his birth date, he is now 27 years old. He is the all-rounder in the team and bowls as Right-arm medium fast and bat as Right handed player. His major teams include West Indian team, Chennai Super Kings, and BCA President XI. He has also played for the West Indian under 19 and West Indian a team. Jason holder height is about 6 ft and 7.5 inches tall. His hometown is Bridgetown, Barbados. Jason Holder net worth in 2019 is under review.
Other basic facts
- Age (as in 2019): 27 years
- Hometown: Bridgetown, Barbados
- Zodiac sign/Sun Sign: Scorpio
- Hair color: Black
- Eye Colour: Black
- Body Measurements: chest – 42 inches; Waist – 34 inches; Biceps – 14 inches
- Height: 202 cm or 6′ 7.5″ inches or 1.02 m
- Weight: almost 110 kgs or 243 lbs
- Nickname: NA
- Jersey Number: 98
- International Debut: ODI debut – 1 February 2013 v Australia; Test debut – 26 June 2014 v New Zealand; T20 debut – 15 January 2014 v New Zealand
- Net Worth(Approx): NA
- Salary: NA
Education Background
Not much information is collected about his education, but some facts tell that he has done his schooling from St. Michael School.
Family
He belonged to a Christian family who is national of Barbadian. His father name is Ronald Holder, and mother name is Denise Holder. He also has a sibling brother whose name is Codeman. He is still unmarried.
Jason Holder Career
Jason Holder made his international debut in Cricket in 2013. He had made his test debut on 24th June 2014 against New Zealand. He is the 299th player of West Indies. Jason Holder made his ODI debut in January 2013.
His performance attracted the IPL selectors, and in 2013 just the couple of days of his performance he is selected for Chennai super kings. He was bought for $20,000. But in 2014 he was picked for Sunrisers Hyderabad. During the time of playing in Sunrisers Hyderabad team, he was picked to play before Karn Sharma and Pervez Rasool. He scored 16 runs in his first match. The innings include his biggest six of the IPL.
After playing for Sunrisers for two years, he was selected by Kolkata Knight Riders in 2016. Holder managed to score 22 runs with an average of 5.50. Holder took 2 wickets in all 4 matches with an average of 51.50.
His impressive performance pursued the Northampton shire County Cricket club to select him for the 2019 county season. Holder was selected to play his ODI debut against Australia in February 2013. Holder was recognized by the selectors when he made the remarkable performance against Pakistan in the first match of ODI series in July 2013. Holder managed to get 4 wickets by giving just 13 runs. But unfortunately, his team didn’t manage to get over the game due to the best balling performance of Shahid Afridi who succeeded to get the seven-man out. The whole team bowled out for just 98 runs.
In the third match of the series Holder performed in a better way. He performed his best all-around performance. He made 19 runs and remained not out.
After that Jason was selected to play his T20 debut against New Zealand in 2014, where he conceded 34 runs in 3 overs and bowled 2 people of the other team. Jason was selected to play his Test debut against New Zealand after watching his remarkable performance in ODI format.
Jason didn’t get the chance to get the wicket of any of the player but did not concede any of the runs in his four overs. He made the first 4 over maiden in the first innings. He managed to get his maiden test wicket in the second innings when he bowled the dangerous player Ross Taylor who made only 16 runs.
Jason completed the second innings by conceding 90 runs for 2 wickets. He also scored 90 runs in the innings and managed to make his maiden half-century. But unfortunately, his team lost the match by 53 runs.
Jason became the captain of West Indians team after Dwayne Bravo. He became the youngest captain for the team at the age of 23. He was named as the captain for test series on 4th of September 2015 when the team is ready to play against Sri Lanka. He was made the second youngest captain of the test team.
He also holds the record of the 15th youngest captain of the test all over the world. He also played the key role for motivating the team to make to the quarter-final for the 2015 world cup, the team lost by New Zealand in the quarterfinals. Jason performs his best in the whole tournament as he made two connective half-centuries for the team. Jason conceded 104 runs against South Africa. This performance is considered as one of the worst balling figures for Jason.
Jason made his first century in test format against England and made the team to draw the match. During the captaincy of Jason Holder team lost many of the matches. But Jason team without Chris Gayle and Marlon Samuels, his team is considered as inexperienced. The efforts of Jason as a captain was appreciated by many of the Indian players.
Jason managed to get 5 wickets against India on July 2, 2017. This figure is considered as his best bowling figure. This was his first 5 wicket haul. In this match, West Indians managed to get only 189 runs which were very low scoring target against India. But due to the best performance of Holder in the balling side, West Indians managed to win against India by 11 runs.
Holder becomes the fastest player to score 1000 runs and take 100 wickets in the ODI format for West Indians. The holder remains as the captain for West Indies for 2019 cricket world cup.
Jason Holder Wife
According to some facts and figures, he is still unmarried but has a girlfriend whose name is Christina.
Jason Holder Net worth
Jason Holder net worth is still unknown.
House, Cars and Bikes Collection
He owns the house in Barbados. He is much not in some luxuries but owns many cars as Land Cruiser, Range Rover.
Some Interesting and Unknown Facts about Jason Holder
- He likes to play golf and listening to music.
- His hobby is to do cart racing.
- He is the youngest captain of West Indian Cricket Team and second youngest test captain for West Indies.
- According to ICC rankings, he is considered as the world best All-Rounder in the test rankings.
