Zak Crawley
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Test debut (cap 695) | 29 November 2019 v New Zealand | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Last Test | 7 March 2024 v India | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
ODI debut (cap 260) | 8 July 2021 v Pakistan | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Last ODI | 9 December 2023 v West Indies | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
ODI shirt no. | 6 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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2015– | Kent | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
2021– | London Spirit | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
2022/23 | Hobart Hurricanes | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
2023/24 | Perth Scorchers | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Source: CricInfo, 27 April 2024 |
Zak Crawley (born 3 February 1998) is an English professional cricketer who plays for Kent County Cricket Club. He plays Test cricket for the England cricket team and has captained England in One Day Internationals.
Crawley made his international debut for England in November 2019 in the second Test match of
Early life
Crawley was born in
Cricket career
Crawley made his senior debut for Kent in the
Crawley was part of the Kent squad for the
During the
Crawley was drafted by
International call-up
Although averaging less than 35 runs per innings in county cricket in 2018 and 2019, Crawley was seen as a potential international batsman.[34][35] Following a series of good batting performances at the start of the 2019 season, including scoring two centuries, Crawley made his England Lions debut in a four-day match against an Australian XI in July at Canterbury, the first time he had played for any England side.[36][37] He scored 820 County Championship runs during the season and, in September 2019, was named in the England cricket team's Test match squad for their 2019/20 tour of New Zealand, one of four uncapped players included in the squad for the tour.[34][38][39] After scoring a century in a warm-up match,[40][41] Crawley was brought into the team for the second Test following an injury to Jos Buttler, making his debut at Seddon Park on 29 November aged 21.[42]
After scoring only one run on debut, batting at number 6, he was retained in the squad for the tour of South Africa in December and January. Following an injury to opening batsman Rory Burns, Crawley made his second Test appearance in the second Test against South Africa, this time opening the batting. His "excellent temperament"[43] and "unflustered" approach were praised as was his bravery against short-pitched bowling,[44] although some technical issues with his batting were also commented on.[43][44] He made scores of 4 and 25 in the match, but also took two "vital" catches during the final innings of the match.[45][46] He went on to play in the remaining two matches of the series, scoring his first Test half-century in the final match.[47]
International arrival in 2020
Crawley signed a three-year contract extension with Kent in March 2020.[47] In May, he was named in a group of 55 players to begin training ahead of international fixtures during the COVID-19 pandemic[48][49] and in June was included in England's 30-man squad to start training behind closed doors for the Test series against the West Indies.[50][51] He played in the first two Tests of the summer, scoring 76 in the second innings of the first Test to increase his Test match highest score,[52] before playing in the second Test against Pakistan in August, scoring a half-century in a rain-affected match.[53]
He went on to make his maiden Test century in the following match, his eighth Test match, scoring 171
Crawley's long-standing mentor is former Kent captain
Inconsistent international form in 2021 and 2022
The following winter, Crawley was selected for the England tours of
Following the forced isolation of most of the England One Day International (ODI) squad after a COVID-19 outbreak, Crawley was named in the revised squad for their series against the touring Pakistanis in July 2021.[68][69] He made his ODI debut in the first match of the series, scoring an unbeaten half-century.[70] In Test matches, however, Crawley's form with the bat remained poor in 2021, and his 16 innings during the year saw 11 single-figure scores and a Test batting average for the year of 10.81.[71][72]
He lost his place in the team during the summer, but his central contract was renewed and he was retained in the squad for the 2021–22 Ashes series in Australia.[73][74] He was recalled to the team for the Boxing Day Test at Melbourne, the third of the series, after England had batted poorly in the first matches of the tour, although he scored poorly in the match.[73][75] A score of 77 runs from 100 balls in the fourth Test saw him retain his place for the remainder of the five-match series,[76][77] and he was selected to tour the West Indies in early 2022.
Crawley scored his second Test century during the first match of the West Indies tour,
After being selected in the Test match squad for England's tour of Pakistan in late 2022―the side's first Test match tour of Pakistan since 2005―[83] Crawley opened the batting in the first match of the series. He was one of four England batsmen to score a century in their first innings, and came close to becoming the first England player to score a century before lunch on the first day of a Test match.[84] He scored rapidly on a "very flat pitch",[85] making 122 runs and reaching his century in 86 balls, setting a record for the fastest century by an England Test opener.[84][86] He scored a half-century in similar style in England's second innings[87] and played in each of the remaining matches in the series.
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