Joe Denly
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Full name | Joseph Liam Denly | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born | Canterbury, Kent | 16 March 1986|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Height | 6 ft 0 in (1.83 m) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Batting | Right-handed | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bowling | Right-arm leg spin | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Role | Top-order batter | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Relations | Jaydn Denly (nephew) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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National side |
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Test debut (cap 690) | 31 January 2019 v West Indies | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Last Test | 8 July 2020 v West Indies | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
ODI debut (cap 209) | 27 August 2009 v Ireland | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Last ODI | 9 February 2020 v South Africa | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
T20I debut (cap 47) | 30 August 2009 v Australia | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Last T20I | 8 September 2020 v Australia | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Domestic team information | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Years | Team | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
2004–2011 | Dhaka Dynamites | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
2017/18–2018/19 | Sydney Sixers (squad no. 24) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
2018 | Karachi Kings (squad no. 6) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
2019 | Kolkata Knight Riders | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
2020/21 | Brisbane Heat (squad no. 16) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
2021 | Lahore Qalandars | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
2022/23 | Sharjah Warriors | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Source: ESPNcricinfo, 27 April 2024 |
Joseph Liam Denly (born 16 March 1986) is an English professional
Denly has represented England in Test, One Day International (ODI) and Twenty20 International (T20I) matches. He played age group cricket for England and made 14 one-day appearances for the international team between 2009 and 2010 before falling out of favour with the national selectors. He was called back into the England Test match and one-day squads in 2018 following two seasons of good performances for Kent, making his Test debut for England in January 2019.
Early life
Denly was born in
Domestic career
Denly played for Kent County Cricket Club at every age level and was a member of the county's cricket academy. He made his first-class cricket debut for the county in 2004 against Oxford University aged 18 before playing his first County Championship match against Gloucestershire the following season.[2][7][8] At the end of the 2005 season he was given an extension to his contract.[9]
Denly scored his maiden professional century in 2007,
The 2008 season began slowly with a series of low scores. He did, however, make a career best score of 149 against Somerset at Tunbridge Wells and go on to end the season as one of the year's highly rated players.[12]
Denly has spent several English off-seasons, starting in 2006–07, playing in Australia in the
On 9 September 2011, Denly surpassed his previous high score of 149 and recorded a score of 199 against Derbyshire. On 28 September 2011, Denly moved from Kent to newly promoted Middlesex.[17][18] He returned to Kent in October 2014 after three seasons with Middlesex, ending his contract with Middlesex a year early to do so.[19][20] His time at Middlesex was disappointing with him unable to perform consistently, scoring "just 1,829 Championship runs" in his time with the club[2] and after averaging around 20 runs per innings in his final season with the club.[8][20]
Denly improved on his first-class high score in May 2016 when he scored 206 not out in the first innings of a match against Northamptonshire, his maiden first-class double century.[21] He signed a long-term contract extension during August 2016,[22] having made headlines earlier in the year when he retired not out in a County Championship match against Derbyshire at Derby when his wife went into labour unexpectedly early with the couple's first child.[23][24][25] At the beginning of 2016, Denly gave up alcohol for a year in order to raise money for Cancer Research UK and the Professional Cricketers' Association benevolent fund, raising more than £4,000.[26][27] After signing a contract extension in August 2016,[28] Denly further improved his first-class high score on 21 May 2017 when he made 227 in the second innings of a Championship match against Worcestershire. His innings put Kent on course for victory, but Worcestershire successfully chased a target of 399 the following day.[29]
The 2018 domestic season saw Denly lead the
International career
Denly played for England age group sides from under-17 to under-19 levels, scoring three half-centuries in consecutive matches for the under-19s in India in 2005.
He toured Bangladesh with England in 2010 and played in the Champions Trophy team which reached the semi-finals in the same year.[46] Denly was dropped from the England squad in the run up to the 2010 World T20.[47]
In September 2018 he was named in England's Test squad for the series against Sri Lanka in November.[37][48][49] Following an injury to Liam Dawson, Denly was called into the England limited-overs squad during the tour of Sri Lanka,[50][51] though he did not play in the ODI series. He made his return to international cricket in the single T20I match played on the tour, 3,102 days after his last international appearance. He scored 20 runs, opened the bowling and took four wickets on his return to the England side, winning the player of the match award. His figures of 4/19 were the second best bowling figures by an England bowler in T20Is.[52][53][54][55]
Despite not playing in any of the three Tests on the Sri Lankan tour, Denly was subsequently named in both the Test and one-day squads for England's tour of the West Indies in early 2019.[56][57] He made his Test debut for England against the West Indies on 31 January.[58]
In April 2019, he was named in England's provisional squad for the 2019 Cricket World Cup.[59][60] The following month, Denly played in his first ODI match for ten years, in the one-off fixture against Ireland in Malahide.[61] On 21 May 2019, England finalised their squad for the World Cup, with Denly not named in the final 15-man team.[62]
In May, Denly was named in a group of 55 players to begin training ahead of international fixtures during the COVID-19 pandemic.[63][64] and in June was selected included in England's 30-man squad to start training behind closed doors for the Test series against the West Indies.[65][66] He went on to play in the first Test of the series before being replaced for the second match after the return of England's captain Joe Root.[67]
T20 franchise cricket
After playing for
In 2018, Denly joined the
In September 2018 Sydney Sixers announced that they had re-signed Denly for whole of the 2018–19 Big Bash,[31][74] although following his selection for the England tour to the Caribbean he was only able to play of the side until early January.[75] Later that year, Denly was bought by Kolkata Knight Riders in the 2019 IPL Auction.[76]
In December 2020, Denly signed a contract to play for Brisbane Heat in the 2020–21 Big Bash. Due to quarantine restrictions in place because of the COVID-19 pandemic, he will be available to play for the team from early January 2021.[77]
Career best performances
As of April 2024, Denly has scored 32
In July 2017 Denly, batting with
He has made a further eight List A centuries and five in Twenty20 matches. He set the Kent record for the highest individual score in a Twenty20 match with a score of 116 not out made in July 2017 against Surrey at The Oval. During the same match he and Daniel Bell-Drummond set the record for any wicket partnership for the county, scoring 163 runs for the first wicket.[86][87] He broke his own record in August 2017, scoring 127 against Essex at Chelmsford. Remarkably during the same match, Denly and Bell-Drummond again broke the county's record partnership for any wicket, this time adding 207 for the first wicket. This was also a world record opening partnership in Twenty20 cricket, and the third highest in the world for any wicket in the format.[88] In May 2018 Denly went on to set the Kent record for the highest individual score in List A cricket, scoring 150 not out against Glamorgan at Canterbury.[89]
Denly has been described as an "occasional"
As of 5 June 2022
Batting | Bowling (innings) | |||||||
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Score | Fixture | Venue | Season | Analysis | Fixture | Venue | Season | |
First-class | 227 | Kent v Worcestershire | Worcester | 2017 | 4/36 | Kent v Derbyshire | Derby | 2018 |
List A | 150 not out | Kent v Glamorgan | Canterbury | 2018 | 4/35 | Kent v Jamaica | North Sound, Antigua | 2017/18 |
T20
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127 | Kent v Essex | Chelmsford | 2017 | 4/19 | Sri Lanka
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Colombo | 2018/19 |
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