Johnson Charles (born January 14, 1989 in St. Lucia) is an international cricketer from St. Lucia, who plays for the West Indies. As a wicketkeeper batsman, Charles began his ODI career in March 2012 against Australia. His first T20I came against England in September 2011 and he was only the second St Darren Sammy cricketer to captain Charles' international debut). Johnson was inducted into the 15-man West Indies squad for ICC World Twenty20 2012, which took place in September and October of the same year.

Domestic and T20 franchise careers

Charles played his first Twenty20 match in January 2008, representing Saint Lucia at the Stanford Twenty20. Charles opened the headline with Keddy Lesporis, finishing with 2 and 21 points in the only games he played in competition. Later that year he made his debut for the Windward Islands in the West Indies Board Cup, the regional one-day tournament. His performance was insufficient to secure a spot on the team's one-day team, and in 2009 Charles didn't play List A or Twenty20 cricket. In January of the same year, however, he made his first-class debut and played eight games for the Windward Islands in the regional four-day competition. In 16 visits to the league, he amassed 292 runs, including a single half century, placing him seventh on the team's list of top running shooters in this year's competition.

Charles did not represent the Windward Islands in the 2009/10 regional four-day competition, but in 2010 he returned to List A for the West Indies Board Cup and played his first twentieth game for the team. In the first match of the Caribbean T20, Charles opened up bat with Devon Smith and used several postponements (Charles was dropped three times and almost ran out) to score his first half-century in the format.
On June 3, 2018, he was selected in the Players' Draft for the first edition of the Global T20 Canada tournament for the Toronto Nationals. In November 2019 he was selected to play for Sylhet Thunder in the 2019/20 Bangladesh Premier League. In July 2020, he was named to the Barbados Tridents' squad for the 2020 Caribbean Premier League.

International career

After being selected to the West Indies squad for the 2012 Twenty20, Charles opened the bat in the third game with Chris Gayle (he struck in the West Indies opening game after the first wicket fell and in the second he didn't hit like the game). did it rain). After building a centuries-old partnership with Gayle, Charles (who has been described by ESPNCricinfo as "an unobvious pedigree as an opening batsman") scored 84 points to help his team beat England. It was his highest score in First Class, List A, or even 2020 cricket. The following month, Charles was fired from the West Indies squad for a five-game ODI series against Bangladesh.