Evin Lewis
Evin Lewis - Batsman Of The West Indies Cricket Team
Evin Lewis is a Trinidadian cricketer who, until recently, played for the West Indies as an opener. An opening batter known for his aggressive style of play and high strike rate, especially in the shorter formats (T20, ODI). A member of the West Indies squad that won the ICC Men’s T20 World Cup in 2016. BPL champion in 2019 with Comilla Victorians, and the third batter in history after Brendon McCullum and Chris Gayle to score two centuries in Twenty20 Internationals.
Evin Lewis: Biography And Sporting Career
Evin Lewis (full name: Evin Earl Lewis) was born on December 27, 1991, in the small town of Rio Claro in southeastern Trinidad. It is a quiet rural area where cricket is part of everyday life and the main pastime for local residents. In the Lewis family, cricket was always held in high regard, and his father Earl and mother Dawn did everything they could to provide Evin with basic equipment, even though the family was not well-off.
Like many Caribbean cricketers, Evin started out with softball cricket. He spent hours out on the streets and even skipped school lessons for cricket matches. Lewis attended Princes Town East Secondary School. Playing for the school team, he stood out from his peers thanks to his ability to clear the boundary with ease. In an interview with the respected cricket outlet ESPNcricinfo, the player himself said this about his aggressive batting style:
“Growing up, you don’t really have most of the technique, and most of the knowledge about cricket. Once you see the ball you just swing as hard as possible to see how far you can hit the ball. It just happens”.
It was already clear during his school years that cricket was more than just a hobby for Evin. By the age of 13-14, Lewis was playing for Trinidad & Tobago’s junior teams. After strong performances in regional tournaments, including the 2009-10 WICB President’s Cup season, he was named in the West Indies U19 squad for the ICC U19 World Cup 2010, where the team finished as bronze medalists.
After his youth career, Evin Lewis quickly moved into professional cricket: he made his debut for the Trinidad & Tobago senior team in 2012, and his international breakthrough came thanks to his performances in the 2013 Champions League T20, where he scored 211 runs in 5 innings and finished as his team’s leading batter. A call-up to the senior West Indies squad naturally followed. With that team, he won the ICC World Twenty20 in 2016 and firmly nailed down his place as an opening batter in international cricket.
Here is a quick rundown of the brightest moments and key achievements in Evin Lewis’ sporting career:
- 2016: first T20I century. In a match against India in Florida, he smashed 100 runs off just 49 balls, including 5 sixes in a single over;
- July 2017: second T20I century, again against India. He scored 125 runs, which at the time was the highest individual score for the West Indies in the format;
- September 2017: in an ODI against England, he made 176 runs before retiring hurt unbeaten. It remains one of the best knocks in West Indies one-day cricket history;
- 2019: became a Bangladesh Premier League (BPL) champion with Comilla Victorians;
- 2021: led St. Kitts & Nevis Patriots to their first-ever CPL title, finishing as the team’s top-scoring batter with 426 runs, including a century against Trinbago Knight Riders.
The years from 2023 to 2025 were a mixed bag for the player: there were flashes of brilliant aggressive batting, but also some outright failures, and injuries sometimes got in the way of consistency. Even so, Lewis remained a valuable opening batter, though competition for places in the national side kept heating up.
On January 27, 2026, Evin announced his retirement from international cricket. The reason was deep disappointment: he had been left out of the West Indies squad for the 2026 T20 World Cup. In his Instagram story, he wrote:
“Jus wanna thank everyone who supported me in my 10yrs off international cricket but I think the time has come for me to depart”.
It looked more like an emotional call than a final decision, and two months later, after cooling off, the player reversed his retirement and announced his return to international cricket. The real surprise was that Lewis’ comeback came in the first-class format, where he had not played since the 2016/17 season. At the end of March, Trinidad and Tobago Red Force included him in their squad for the 2026 Regional Four Day Competition, and many experts see this as an attempt to put himself back on the map and possibly even push for a place in the national team again in the future, although at his age that is quite an ambitious move.
Evin Lewis: Personal Life And Interesting Facts
Evin Lewis has played in the Caribbean, Indian and Bangladesh Premier League, as well as in the Pakistan Super League. The teams he played for:
the West Indies U-19, the West Indies A, the West Indies, the Comilla Victorians, the Karnataka Tuskers, the Punjab Legends, the Trinidad and Tobago, the Vancouver Knights, the West Indies Cricket Board President’s XI, the Barisal Bulls, the Dhaka Dynamites, the Mumbai Indians, the St Kitts and Nevis Patriots, the Trinidad and Tobago Red Steel.
After Evin temporarily announced his retirement from international cricket in January 2026, he made his Instagram profile private in order to shield his family from extra media attention. Because of that, there is very little public information about the player’s personal life, but a few things are still known.
Lewis is either married to or in a serious relationship with Sharane Ali. The couple is raising a child, although the exact date of birth and the child’s name have not been disclosed.
To wrap things up, here is a short list of interesting facts and key stats about the player that, hopefully, make up for the lack of details about his private life:
- Because of his powerful build (188 cm tall) and aggressive style, Evin is sometimes nicknamed “Junior Gayle” after his idol Chris Gayle;
- Favorites: movie – Taken, song – Paradise by Coldplay, football team – Barcelona;
- In his free time, he enjoys playing golf and listening to music. Those are his main ways to unwind away from the field.
Evin Lewis is one of the most private top-level players in cricket. He does not use X (Twitter) and does not have a public verified Facebook account, preferring to stay out of the spotlight. For a long time, his only official channel to the outside world was Instagram (@evinlewis17) until the profile became private.
| Format | Matches | Runs | Bat Avg | Top Score | Catches |
| ODI | 70 | 2 279 | 36.75 | 176 | 27 |
| T20I | 67 | 1 799 | 29.01 | 125 | 17 |
| T20s | 260 | 6 782 | 28.85 | 125 | 79 |
| List A | 114 | 3 691 | 36.18 | 176 | 55 |
| FC | 22 | 1 229 | 30.72 | 104 | 18 |
