Oliver John Douglas Pope aka Ollie Pope, an English professional cricketer who competes for Surrey County Cricket Club and the England cricket team, was born on 2 January 1998. He bats right-handed and also serves as a wicketkeeper on occasion. He debuted in a Test in 2018.
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Domestic career of Ollie Pope:
Pope, who attended Cranleigh School, is the great-great-great-great-grandson of Joseph Merriman, the institution’s first headmaster. He participated in Surrey youth teams and played club cricket for Guildford and Cranleigh Cricket Clubs. In a match between Oxford MCCU and Surrey as part of the Marylebone Cricket Club University schedule, he made his first-class debut on March 28, 2017. Pope’s first List A half-century came against Sussex on May 7, 2017. On July 7, 2017, he played his first Twenty20 match for Surrey in the NatWest t20 Blast.
He was chosen for the ECB’s abroad placement program in Australia during the 2017–18 winter, where he participated in the NSW Premier Cricket for Campbelltown-Camden District Cricket Club. Pope went on to amass 994 runs, including three centuries, and even received a citation from MP Chris Patterson, the club’s vice-president, in the New South Wales parliament for his achievements both on and off the field. After the Covid-19 interrupted the 2020 season, Pope returned to the Surrey lineup for nine games of the 2021 County Championship, scoring 861 runs at an average of 78.27. Including totals of 245 against Leicestershire and a career-high 274 against Glamorgan.
International career of Ollie Pope:
Pope made his Test debut on August 9, 2018, when he was added to England’s team for the second Test against India at Lord’s. In his lone at-bat, he scored 28, and England won by an innings. He was chosen for England’s trip to Sri Lanka later that year. He was expelled from the trip, nevertheless, because he didn’t participate in England’s opening Test and wanted to join the England Lions for their match against Pakistan A in the United Arab Emirates. Following the COVID-19 pandemic, Pope was included in a 55-player squad that started practicing on May 29 in preparation for international matches that would commence in England.
Pope was a member of England’s 30-man team that began private preparation for the Test series against the West Indies on June 17, 2020. Ollie was included in England’s thirteen-man team on July 4, 2020, for the series’ opening Test match. Pope scored 84 runs in 4 innings during England’s 2021 series against New Zealand, with a top score of just 23. Ollie only participated in the fourth Test of India’s tour of England because to a quad injury, scoring 81 and 2 points. Pope was chosen to represent England in the 2021–22 Ashes. Pope was a member of England’s test team against New Zealand in 2022. He achieved a score of 145 on the second test, which included 13 fours and 3 sixes.
Batting style of Ollie Pope:
Brett Lee, Kevin Pietersen, and Sachin Tendulkar have all compared Pope’s style to Ian Bell’s. Pope’s “elegant” cover drive, capacity to rotate the strike, and “compact” approach are frequently cited as Bell analogies.
Batting and Bowling Stats:
Batting Career Summary
| M | Inn | NO | Runs | HS | Avg | BF | SR | 100 | 200 | 50 | 4s | 6s | |
| Test | 37 | 65 | 6 | 2077 | 205 | 35.20 | 3385 | 61.36 | 4 | 1 | 11 | 237 | 11 |
Bowling Career Summary
| M | Inn | B | Runs | Wkts | BBI | BBM | Econ | Avg | SR | 5W | 10W | |
| Test | 37 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – |
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