Nicholas Pooran is a West Indies cricketer who plays for the team West Indies. Nicholas Pooran was born on Oct 02, 1995; and as of 2024, he is 29 years old. Nicholas Pooran is a wicketkeeper from Trinidad and bats left-handed.
In Nicholas Pooran’s ODI career, he has played 62 matches to date in his ODI career and has scored 1,983 runs, with an average of 40. Nicholas Pooran has hit 157 fours and 80 sixes in his ODI career.
One of his recent ODI matches took place in Jul 2023 at Harare Sports Club, Harare, Zimbabwe, where he contributed 14 runs off 20 balls. Nicholas Pooran has played 88 matches to date in his T20 career and has scored 1,848 runs, with an average of 26. Nicholas Pooran has hit 127 fours and 115 sixes in his T20 career.
In his most recent T20 match against Australia at Optus Stadium, Perth, Australia, which took place in Feb 2024, Nicholas Pooran contributed 1 run off 3 balls to his team’s total. He holds the 43rd position in the ICC ODI batting rankings with a total of 565 points. Nicholas Pooran is ranked 16th position in the ICC T20 batting rankings with a total of 630 points.
He made his IPL debut in 2019. Nicholas Pooran has played 62 matches to date in his IPL career and has scored 1270 runs, with an average of 27.02. He has also slammed 6 half-centuries, with his highest IPL score being 77 runs.
Nicholas Pooran has hit 78 fours and 91 sixes in his IPL career. In the IPL Auction 2024, the Lucknow franchise acquired the services of Nicholas Pooran for Rs 16.00 Cr. In May 2023, he played his last IPL match against Mumbai at the M.A. Chidambaram Stadium, Chennai, India, scoring 0 runs off 1 ball.
Nicholas Pooran Biography
| Full name | Nicholas Pooran |
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| Date of Birth/DOB/ age | 2 October 1995 (27 Years) |
| Birth Place | Couva, Trinidad, Trinidad and Tobago |
| Zodiac sign/Sun sign | Libra |
| Profession | Cricketer (Wicket-keeper Batsman) |
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| Cricket Role | Wicketkeeper Batter |
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| Married | Married |
| Spouse or Girlfriend | Alyssa Miguel (aka Kathrina Miguel) |
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| Education Qualification | Graduation |
| Religion | Christianity |
| Current Residence | Couva, Trinidad, Trinidad and Tobago |
| Nationality | Trinidadian |
| Batting Style | Left hand Bat |
| Bowling Style | Left-hand Bat |
| Domestic Cricket debut | |
| International Debut | T20– 23 September 2016 against Pakistan at Dubai ODI– 20 February 2019 against England at Bridgetown Test– Did Not Play |
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Nicholas Pooran Profile
Nicholas Pooran confirmed his status as one of the most exciting young batting talents in the modern game with a sublime innings of 118 off 103 in West Indies’ defeat to Sri Lanka at the 2019 World Cup, but only four years earlier the idea that he would play international cricket seemed fanciful.
A year after finishing as the fourth-highest run-scorer at the U-19 World Cup in early 2014, Pooran was involved in a serious car accident that left him with a torn patella tendon, fractured tibia and fractured ankle. After a long recovery process, he was handed a substantial contract for Barbados Tridents in the 2016 CPL on Kieron Pollard’s recommendation.
Unsure whether his body would continue to hold up, Pooran looked to maximise his earnings by playing in every franchise league he could including the BPL, the PSL, the Hong Kong Blitz, the T10 and West Indies B in the Global T20 Canada. His first BPL deal, in 2016-17, earned him a ban from the WICB, who were displeased at his decision not to play regional cricket instead.
His international breakthrough came in late 2018 when he hit his first half-century for West Indies off just 24 balls against India in Chennai. From there, he was parachuted into the World Cup squad, and given an opportunity as West Indies’ No. 4 despite limited experience in 50-over cricket. He hit the fifties against England and Afghanistan, plus a thrilling hundred against Sri Lanka, and finished the tournament with an average of 52.47 and a strike rate of 100.
After an underwhelming first season for Kings XI Punjab in the IPL – he was previously picked up by Mumbai Indians in 2017 but did not play a game – he enjoyed a stellar 2020 season in the UAE, making 353 runs at a strike rate of 170, demonstrating his ability to dominate against spin and also pulling off a remarkable boundary save in the deep. He had come into the season off the back of a maiden T20 hundred for Guyana Amazon Warriors in the CPL and followed it by playing his first first-class games in over six years for West Indies A in New Zealand.
Nicholas Pooran Career Stats
Batting & Fielding
| FORMAT | Mat | Inns | NO | Runs | HS | Ave | BF | SR | 100s | 50s | 4s | 6s | Ct | St |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ODIs | 61 | 58 | 8 | 1983 | 118 | 39.66 | 2000 | 99.15 | 3 | 11 | 157 | 80 | 23 | 2 |
| T20Is | 88 | 80 | 8 | 1848 | 82 | 25.66 | 1372 | 134.69 | 0 | 11 | 127 | 115 | 48 | 7 |
| FC | 5 | 10 | 0 | 319 | 69 | 31.90 | 473 | 67.44 | 0 | 2 | 39 | 10 | 2 | 2 |
| List A | 98 | 91 | 17 | 3048 | 118 | 41.18 | – | – | 4 | 17 | – | – | 52 | 2 |
| T20s | 315 | 292 | 44 | 6504 | 102* | 26.22 | 4466 | 145.63 | 2 | 36 | 416 | 453 | 173 | 27 |
Bowling
| FORMAT | Mat | Inns | Balls | Runs | Wkts | BBI | BBM | Ave | Econ | SR | 4w | 5w | 10w |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ODIs | 61 | 7 | 169 | 174 | 6 | 4/48 | 4/48 | 29.00 | 6.17 | 28.1 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| T20Is | 88 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – |
| FC | 5 | 1 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 1/3 | 1/3 | 3.00 | 3.00 | 6.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| List A | 98 | 7 | 169 | 174 | 6 | 4/48 | 4/48 | 29.00 | 6.17 | 28.1 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| T20s | 315 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – |
Nicholas Pooran IPL Auction Price History
Year | Price | Team |
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| 2019 | 4.20 Cr | Punjab |
| 2020 | 4.20 Cr | Punjab |
| 2021 | 4.20 Cr | Punjab |
| 2022 | 10.75 Cr | Hyderabad |
| 2023 | 16.00 Cr | Lucknow |
| 2024 | 16.00 Cr | Lucknow |
Nicholas Pooran’s Social Media Accounts
| Nicholas Pooran (@nicholaspooran) | |
| nicholas_47 – NickyP | |
| Wikipedia | Nicholas Pooran |
Some Lesser-Known Facts About Nicholas Pooran
- Does Nicholas Pooran drink alcohol?: YesNicholas Pooran with a glass of wine
- Nicholas Pooran used to play in the school cricket team.
- He made his List A debut in 2013 for Trinidad & Tobago against the Windward Islands at Kingstown.
- In 2015, he met with a car accident, and he was not able to play for 18 months because of severe ankle and knee injuries. Nicholas Pooran suffered from ankle and knee injuries in a 2015 car accident
- In 2016, Nicholas was selected to play for the West Indies Team and made his T20 International debut against Pakistan in Dubai.
- In 2017, Mumbai Indians (MI) bought him at a base price of Rs 30 lakhs for the 2017 Indian Premier League (IPL) auction. Unfortunately, he did not play a single match.
- In the same year, he was selected to play for the Islamabad United, Pakistan Super League (PSL), as the replacement of “Ben Duckett.”
- In 2018, Nicholas Pooran was named among the squad of the West Indies B Team for the Global T20 Canada tournament.
- He was also named in the squad of the Sylhet Sixers team for the 2018-19 Bangladesh Premier League.
- Kings XI Punjab (KXIP) also bought him at a price of Rs 4.2 crores in 2018 for the 2019 IPL auction.
- On 27 September 2020, while playing for the Kings XI Punjab (KXIP) against the Rajasthan Royals in the IPL 2020, he saved a massive hit from Sanju Samson from going over the boundary line for a six.
- Pooran received applause for this brilliant fielding performance not only from cricket fans but also from former cricketers and even film stars.
- Following the exit of the West Indies from the 2022 T20 World Cup, he gave up the captaincy of the West Indies limited-overs team.
