Phil Simmons
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Philip Verant Simmons (born 18 April 1963) is a Trinidadian cricket coach and former cricketer who was a part of the Trinidadian cricket team, served as an opening batsman, a medium-fast bowler, and a slip fielder.
He is the current West Indies cricket coach.
Early life
Simmons' first home was in Arima, Trinidad, a few miles north of Port of Spain. Larry Gomes, a former West Indian batsman, lived just two doors down from him. He was proving to be an expert at a variety of sports, but he excelled at cricket and joined the East Zone shortly. With the help and support of Rohan Kanhai, the East Zone's coach, he made the move to represent Trinidad and Tobago in 1983.
Personal life
Phil Simmons is a fan of Chelsea's Tottenham Hotspur football team. Lendl Simmons, his nephew, has also appeared for the West Indies.
Domestic career
He played for Trinidad and Tobago, English teams Durham and Leicestershire, as well as South African clubs Border and Easterns on both domestic and international levels.
With 34 fours and four sixes against Northamptonshire during his Leicestershire debut in 1996, he scored 261, his highest score for the club. He went on to win the County Championship for the second time in history, with 56 wickets and 35 catches. In 1996, Simmons was named PCA Player of the Year award.
In 1997, he was named Wisden Cricketer of the Year. In 1998, Simmons helped Leicestershire win their second County Championship title. He took over captaincy from James Whitaker and Chris Lewis during the 1988 campaign. Whitaker was ailing with an illness at the time, and Lewis was chastised for his indecent behaviour. Leicestershire went on a six-match winning streak with Simmons as the manager and eventually took the title with a resounding victory over Surrey at The Oval. Simmons eventually scored 11682 runs on an average of 35.61, as well as 214 wickets in his first class debut, with a total number of five wicket hauls totaling a total of 28.68.
International career
Simmons, like many others before him, found the switch to Test cricket difficult, taking only one century in his Test career (110 at Melbourne, during the West Indies' 1992-93 tour of Australia) and ending his career in 1997 with a batting average of just 22.26 in 26 matches.
Simmons was the most adept at the international one-day game, winning a total of 143 ODI matches between 1987 and 1999. He made two half-centuries against Pakistan and 89 against Sri Lanka, making his ODI debut at the 1987 Cricket World Cup. He appeared in four games, including scoring 110 against Sri Lanka at the 1992 World Cup. Simmons won the Man of the Match award in December 1992 against Pakistan in a match of 8.30 points, 8 maidens, 3 runs, 4 wickets. Simmons holds the world record for the most efficient bowling results (in terms of the fewest runs conceded) in an ODI among those who reached their maximum quota of overs (10 overs in a 50-over match). He was named player of the series by scoring three half centuries and a total of 330 runs for the series at Sharjah's Champions Trophy tri-series the following year. Simmons failed to impress at the 1995/96 World Series Cup in Australia, which also included hosts Sri Lanka, because he was not selected for the 1996 World Cup. He was, however, recalled before the 1999 World Cup, where he appeared in four games, including his last ODI match against Australia at Old Trafford).
Coaching career
Simmons' playing days came to an end in 2002. He began training at Harare's Harare based academy, firstly teaching at the Harare based academy. He was named Zimbabwe's new head coach in May 2004, succeeding Australian Geoff Marsh. This came as a result of the mass expulsion of several senior players.
In the middle of a losing streak that included losses to Bangladesh and New Zealand, he found himself trying to protect Zimbabwe's Test status. Simmons was eventually dismissed by the Zimbabwe Cricket Union in August 2005.
After the 2007 ICC Cricket World Cup, Simmons took over as coach of Ireland's national cricket team. Ireland gained a number of trophies and qualified for every major ICC tournament during his tenure. At the 2015 Cricket World Cup, he helped them win over England at the 2011 Cricket World Cup, as well as the West Indies and Zimbabwe. Simmons has been in charge of Ireland for over 224 games, making him the longest serving coach in international matches.
He accepted an invitation to take over as head coach of his native West Indies in March 2015. Michael Muirhead, the WICB's chief executive, said of his signing, "Phil has a demonstrated ability to produce players while also cultivating a winning spirit and a winning environment, and we suspect he is the right choice."
In 2016, he led the West Indies team to a landmark second T20 World Cup triumph in India. At the time, the former top-ranked cricket team was going through a difficult period, and he was tasked with lifting the team from near-bottom of the top ten rankings to back to prominence.
He was the batting coach for Afghanistan's national cricket team and was appointed as the head coach in 2017. He was appointed as the head coach of the Brampton Wolves franchise team in June 2019 for the 2019 Global T20 Canada tournament. He was recalled as the head coach of the West Indies team in October 2019.