Sulieman Benn – Profile, Stats & Recent Form

Personal details

Full nameSulieman Jamaal Benn

Born22 Jul 1981

Age45 Years

NationalityBarbadian

RoleBowler/Slow left arm orthodox, Left-handed Batsman

BattingLeft hand Bat

BowlingLeft Arm Orthodox

Height6 ft 7 in (2.01 m)

Career at a glance

Format	M	Runs	Avg	SR	Wkts	Econ
Test	26	486	14.29	60.59	87	2.78
ODI	47	182	7.91	75.83	39	4.80
T20I	24	37	12.33	88.09	18	7.21
T20	97	178	9.37	94.18	88	6.66
List A	130	599	12.22	–	150	4.09
First-class	99	2059	17.01	–	379	2.69
T10	3	0	–	–	2	10.07

Debuts

Test West Indies vs Sri Lanka, Providence 22 Mar 2008

T20I West Indies vs Sri Lanka, Port of Spain10 Apr 2008

List AWest Indies vs Australia, Bridgetown 20 Jun 2008

T20 Barbados vs Anguilla, Coolidge 18 Jul 2006

Batting

Format	M	Inn	NO	Runs	HS	Avg	BF	SR	50	4s	6s	Ct
Test	26	39	5	486	42	14.29	802	60.59	0	58	13	14
ODI	47	30	7	182	31	7.91	240	75.83	0	19	3	9
T20I	24	7	4	37	13	12.33	42	88.09	0	5	1	10
T20	97	31	12	178	21	9.37	189	94.18	0	11	11	30
List A	130	75	26	599	39	12.22	0	–	0	0	0	53
First-class	99	142	21	2059	79	17.01	0	–	7	0	0	79
T10	3	0	0	0	0	–	0	–	0	0	0	1

Bowling

Format	M	Inn	Overs	Runs	Wkts	BBI	Avg	Econ	5W
Test	26	42	1220.1	3402	87	8/108	39.10	2.78	6
ODI	47	46	397.5	1913	39	4/18	49.05	4.80	0
T20I	24	24	84	606	18	4/6	33.66	7.21	0
T20	97	95	329	2190	88	4/6	24.89	6.66	0
List A	130	0	1053.4	4312	150	5/18	28.74	4.09	1
First-class	99	0	3767.1	10134	379	–	26.73	2.69	19
T10	3	3	4.4	47	2	1/14	23.50	10.07	0

By tournament

Tournament	M	Runs	HS	Avg	SR	Wkts	Econ
Bangladesh Premier League	4	19	15	9.50	105.56	2	8.92
Caribbean Premier League	32	21	8	3.00	60.00	23	7.19
ICC Men's T20 World Cup	16	28	13	14.00	84.85	7	7.09
ICC Cricket World Cup	9	26	9	5.20	61.90	14	7.43

Against teams

Batting vs	Inn	Runs	HS	Avg	SR
South Africa	2	17	13	17.00	130.77
Australia	1	9	9	9.00	56.25
Sri Lanka	2	6	6	6.00	75.00
New Zealand	2	5	5	–	100.00

Bowling vs	Inn	Wkts	Runs	Avg	Econ	SR
England	5	5	140	28.00	8.24	20.40
Zimbabwe	1	4	6	1.50	1.50	6.00
South Africa	5	3	144	48.00	8.47	34.00
New Zealand	2	2	65	32.50	8.13	24.00
Australia	3	1	66	66.00	6.60	60.00
Sri Lanka	4	1	103	103.00	6.44	96.00
India	3	1	64	64.00	8.00	48.00
Afghanistan	1	1	18	18.00	4.50	24.00

Batting vs	Inn	Runs	HS	Avg	SR
South Africa	7	47	18	6.71	81.03
Australia	5	36	23	9.00	76.60
England	4	34	31	8.50	70.83
Sri Lanka	4	24	11	6.00	77.42
Pakistan	2	16	16	16.00	69.57
India	4	11	7	5.50	44.00
New Zealand	1	9	9	–	225.00
Ireland	1	2	2	2.00	100.00
Zimbabwe	1	0	0	0.00	0.00

Bowling vs	Inn	Wkts	Runs	Avg	Econ	SR
Ireland	2	6	82	13.67	4.56	18.00
Australia	7	5	310	62.00	4.77	78.00
Pakistan	4	4	197	49.25	5.32	55.50
South Africa	10	4	453	113.25	6.76	100.50
Sri Lanka	4	4	178	44.50	4.94	54.00
Bangladesh	1	4	18	4.50	3.09	8.75
India	7	3	243	81.00	7.15	68.00
England	4	3	168	56.00	4.80	70.00
Zimbabwe	4	1	146	146.00	3.95	222.00
New Zealand	1	0	66	–	–	–

Batting vs	Inn	Runs	HS	Avg	SR
South Africa	10	122	42	12.20	61.62
Australia	8	117	33	16.71	58.21
England	9	97	35	10.78	55.75
Sri Lanka	4	64	29	21.33	54.24
New Zealand	7	61	25	10.17	66.30
Bangladesh	1	25	25	25.00	131.58

Bowling vs	Inn	Wkts	Runs	Avg	Econ	SR
South Africa	9	21	849	40.43	2.72	89.29
England	10	18	909	50.50	3.19	94.89
Australia	7	15	595	39.67	2.89	82.40
New Zealand	8	15	630	42.00	2.52	99.93
Bangladesh	4	14	174	12.43	1.87	39.93
Sri Lanka	4	4	245	61.25	3.31	111.00

Last 10 innings · batting

0vs SA-L

1vs ENG-L

0vs PAK-L

5vs PAK-L

2*vs IND-L

1vs SA-L

1*vs IND-L

11vs SL

7vs SL

0vs PAK

T20 vs SA-L4 Oct 2026 · c Morne van Wyk b R Frylinck 0(1) T20 vs ENG-L22 Jul 2025 · c SC Meaker b A Shahzad 1(3) T20 vs PAK-L12 Jul 2024 · b S Khan 0(1) T20 vs PAK-L4 Jul 2024 · st Kamran Akmal b S Afridi 5(3) T20 vs IND-L17 Mar 2021 · Not out 2*(3) T20 vs SA-L11 Mar 2020 · c JN Rhodes b R McLaren 1(2) T20 vs IND-L7 Mar 2020 · Not out 1*(3) ODI vs SL23 Nov 2016 · c D Silva b N Pradeep 11(6) ODI vs SL16 Nov 2016 · lbw b N Kulasekara 7(10) ODI vs PAK5 Oct 2016 · c S Khan b M Nawaz 0(4)

Last 10 innings · bowling

1/26vs AUS-L

0/17vs BAN-L

1/6vs ENG-L

0/53vs SA-L

0/37vs PAK-L

1/21vs ENG-L

1/6vs SA L

1/28vs IND-M

0/9vs SL-M

1/20vs SA-M

T20 vs AUS-L16 Oct 2026 1/26 T20 vs BAN-L9 Oct 2026 0/17 T20 vs ENG-L7 Oct 2026 1/6 T20 vs SA-L4 Oct 2026 0/53 T20 vs PAK-L26 Jul 2025 0/37 T20 vs ENG-L22 Jul 2025 1/21 T20 vs SA L19 Jul 2025 1/6 T20 vs IND-M16 Mar 2025 1/28 T20 vs SL-M14 Mar 2025 0/9 T20 vs SA-M11 Mar 2025 1/20

About Sulieman Benn

Sulieman Benn Biography

Sulieman Benn is a West Indies cricketer, born on 22nd July 1981 in Barbados. Standing over 6 feet and 7 inches, Sulieman is also known as ‘big ben’ among his friends.

Although built like a fast bowler, Benn bowls orthodox left arm spin and also comes handy with the bat. Amidst controversies, Sulieman established himself as one of West Indies’ most reliable spinner in years.

Early Days

Benn started playing for his home side, Barbados from 1999 at the age of 17. In his maiden first division tournament, he put up a great performance, picking up 77 wickets in 13 matches at a brilliant average of 11.03.

Using his height as advantage he can whip up some piercing Yorkers and produce bounce to trouble the batsmen.

Sulieman had to grit his teeth in the West Indian domestic circuit for several years before the Carib Beer Cup in 2007-2008, where his potential was discovered by the selectors.

Debut

Following a brilliant record in the Carib Beer Cup, Benn was called up for the national squad in 2008. He played his debut Test match against Sri Lanka at the age of 27, scoring 28 in the first innings, as well as scalping 3 wickets in the second innings.

He made his ODI debut a month later against the same team but went without a wicket or runs.

His T20 debut also came in the same year in the Australia tour of West Indies. Ben did not impress much with the ball and did not get a chance to bat.

He was dropped from the side after a poor debut but was called back for the Test series against England in 2009.

Rise to Glory

Following a poor debut, Benn, however, announced his arrival in the England series in early 2009. Bowling flat due to his round-arm action, Benn amassed 8 wickets in the first test helping his team win the match. In the Test series against Australia, Benn collected his first five-wicket haul.

Benn through the South African batting order in home series in 2010. He piled up 15 wickets in three matches at an average of 30.6. His career best of 6/81 came during the third of this series.

Poor performance by West Indies in the 2011 ICC Cricket World Cup, coupled with his disciplinary problems led to Benn being dropped from the squad. He made his comeback in 2014 and impressed everyone by taking 34 wickets in his first eight tests. He was then included in the side for the 2015 ICC Cricket World Cup.

Low Points

Not shy of confronting other players, Benn was involved in spats throughout his career. He came under scrutiny after a heated argument with Brad Haddin and Mitchell Johnson in a test in 2009. Benn was banned for 2 matches after being found guilty of breaking the spirit of the game.

In 2010, he was sent off the field by his own captain, Chris Gayle after he refused to bowl on the wicket. In South Africa’s tour of West Indies in 2010, Benn was involved with yet another incident with Dale Steyn who spit on the latter’s feet after being continuously sledged.

Consequently, Benn was dropped from the side in 2011 due to his continuing disciplinary problems.

Records

Sulieman Benn holds the records of being the only bowler to have bowled 2 maiden overs in a T20 international match. He achieved this feat against Zimbabwe, finishing with 4 wickets for 6 runs.

He also holds the record for the highest 10th wicket partnership in a T20 World Cup along with Nikita Miller.

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