English cricketer Zak Crawley, who represents Kent County Cricket Club, was born on February 3, 1998. He has played some One Day Internationals and now plays Test cricket for the England cricket team. In the second Test of England’s tour of New Zealand in November 2019, Crawley made his debut for his country, England. He was selected one of the Wisden Cricketers of the Year in the 2021 edition of the almanac after scoring 267 runs in 2020.
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Biography of Zak Crawley:
Early life
Crawley’s father Terry is a retired City of London futures trader who started his career as a carpet fitter before changing careers and becoming one of Britain’s highest paid men and making the Sunday Times Rich List. Crawley was born in Bromley in south-east London and received his education at New Beacon School and Tonbridge School. Crawley played club cricket for Holmesdale Cricket Club, Knockholt Cricket Club, and Sevenoaks Vine. He graduated from the Kent Cricket Academy and has represented Kent since the under-11 level.
He made his Second XI debut for the county in 2013 at the age of 15, and at the conclusion of the 2015 campaign, after developing into a regular Second XI player and being chosen for the England Elite Player Development for London program, he signed his first professional contract with the club. Crawley represented Wembley Districts in Western Australian Grade Cricket during the 2016–17 English winter.
Cricket career of Zak Crawley
On May 17, 2017, Crawley made his senior debut for Kent against Essex in the Royal London Cup at Canterbury. On August 6, 2017, as part of the 166th Canterbury Cricket Week, he made his Kent first-class debut against the visiting West Indians. He scored 62 runs in his first first-class innings before making his county’s County Championship debut at the end of the same month. He extended his contract with Kent in October 2017 after taking part in four Championship games for the county at the conclusion of the year.
Crawley established himself as a dependable member of the Kent squad during the 2018 campaign, participating in all of the team’s first-class games as well as sporadic limited overs contests. With 755 runs scored at an average of 31.46 runs per inning in the County Championship, he finished third among Kent’s run scorers. Crawley was selected by London Spirit for The Hundred’s debut season, although he only played once, opening the batting and scoring 64 in a defeat to Birmingham Phoenix. The Lord’s-based team decided to keep Crawley for the 2022 campaign. In his first appearance in an international franchise league, he scored a half-century on his debut while playing for the Hobart Hurricanes in the 2022–23 Big Bash League.
International career of Zak Crawley
Crawley was considered a future international batter despite playing county cricket in 2018 and 2019, where he averaged less than 35 runs per innings. Crawley made his England Lions debut in a four-day match against an Australian XI in July at Canterbury after a string of strong batting displays to start the 2019 season, including recording two hundred. This was the first time he had played for any England side.
In March 2020, Crawley and Kent agreed to a three-year contract extension. He was part in the 55-player group that started training in May in preparation for international matches during the COVID-19 pandemic; in June, he was named to England’s 30-player team that started practicing in secret for the Test series against the West Indies.
International form inconsistency in 2021 and 2022
Crawley was chosen for the England tours of India and Sri Lanka the following winter. He slipped as he left the locker room before the Indian series and damaged his wrist, missing the first two games. In the first innings of England’s third Test, he was back in the lineup and led all scorers with 53 runs. He then participated in the home series against New Zealand.
During the opening game of the West Indies tour, Crawley got his second Test century, and Viv Richards praised him as “a magnificent player” after his innings of 121. Crawley opened the batting in the first game of the series after being chosen for the Test match squad for England’s tour of Pakistan in late 2022—the team’s first Test match trip of Pakistan since 2005. He was one of four England batsmen to reach the century mark in their opening game. And he nearly became the first Englishman to do it before the break on the opening day of a Test match.
Batting and Bowling Stats:
Batting Career Summary
| M | Inn | NO | Runs | HS | Avg | BF | SR | 100 | 200 | 50 | 4s | 6s | |
| Test | 35 | 65 | 2 | 1792 | 267 | 28.44 | 3000 | 59.73 | 3 | 1 | 9 | 262 | 1 |
| ODI | 3 | 3 | 1 | 97 | 58 | 48.5 | 85 | 114.12 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 14 | 0 |
Bowling Career Summary
| M | Inn | B | Runs | Wkts | BBI | BBM | Econ | Avg | SR | 5W | 10W | |
| Test | 35 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – |
| ODI | 3 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – |
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