Adam Ball

Adam Ball
Personal information
Full name Adam James Ball
Born (1993-03-01) 1 March 1993
Greenwich, London, England
Batting style Right-handed
Bowling style Left-arm fast-medium
Domestic team information
YearsTeam
2010–present Kent (squad no. 24)
FC debut 26 April 2011 Kent v Gloucestershire
LA debut 4 September 2010 Kent v Durham
Career statistics
Competition FC LA T20
Matches 25 26 36
Runs scored 659 164 142
Batting average 19.96 13.66 11.83
100s/50s 0/2 0/0 0/0
Top score 69 28 18
Balls bowled 1,860 825 582
Wickets 26 22 27
Bowling average 49.03 35.50 29.66
5 wickets in innings 0 0 0
10 wickets in match 0 n/a n/a
Best bowling 3/36 3/36 2/18
Catches/stumpings 15/– 4/– 22/–
Source: CricInfo, 8 April 2016

Adam James Ball (born 1 March 1993) is an English cricketer. Ball is a right-handed batsman who bowls left-arm fast-medium. He was born in Greenwich, London.

Ball presently represented the England Under-19s, having made his debut for the team against Afghanistan Under-19s in a Youth One Day International in the 2010 Under-19 World Cup.[1] He has since gone on to play Youth Test and Youth Twenty20 Internationals.[2] During the 2010 season he made his debut for Kent in a List A match against Durham in the Clydesdale Bank 40,[3] during the match dismissing Phil Mustard for a duck.[4]

During the 2011 season, he made nine List A appearances in the 2011 Clydesdale Bank 40.[3] Following his final List A appearance of that season against Derbyshire, Ball had taken his wicket tally in that format to 13 wickets at an average of 23.00, with best figures of 2/31.[5] With the bat he had scored 66 runs at a batting average of 22.00, with a high score of 19.[6] During this season he made his first-class debut for the county against Gloucestershire. During the course of the 2011 season he made eight further first-class appearances, the last of which came against Glamorgan,[7] in a match which was the first day/night County Championship match to be played in England.[8] In his nine first-class matches that season, he took 15 wickets at an average of 37.33, with best figures of 3/36.[9] With the bat, he scored 184 runs at an average of 13.14, with a high score of 46.[10] His Twenty20 debut came against Somerset in the 2011 Friends Provident t20, with Ball making twelve further appearances in that competition.[11] During the course of the competition he took 10 wickets at an average of 28.00, with best figures of 2/28.[12]

In 2013, Ball appeared only twice in the County Championship, but 9 times in the YB40.[13]

Career Best Performances

as of 9 November 2015

Batting Bowling
Score Fixture Venue Season Score Fixture Venue Season
FC 69 Kent v Lancashire Canterbury 2013 3-36 Kent v Leicestershire Leicester 2011
LA 28 Kent Spitfires v Warwickshire Bears Birmingham 2013 3-36 Kent Spitfires v Sussex Sharks Horsham 2013
T20 18 Kent Spitfires v Essex Eagles Canterbury 2012 2-18 Kent Spitfires v Middlesex Panthers Uxbridge 2012

References

  1. ↑ "Youth One-Day International Matches played by Adam Ball". CricketArchive. Retrieved 27 September 2011.
  2. ↑ "Teams Adam Ball played for". CricketArchive. Retrieved 27 September 2011.
  3. 1 2 "List A Matches played by Adam Ball". CricketArchive. Retrieved 27 September 2011.
  4. ↑ "Durham v Kent, 2010 Clydesdale Bank 40". CricketArchive. Retrieved 27 September 2011.
  5. ↑ "List A Bowling For Each Team by Adam Ball". CricketArchive. Retrieved 27 September 2011.
  6. ↑ "List A Batting and Fielding For Each Team by Adam Ball". CricketArchive. Retrieved 27 September 2011.
  7. ↑ "First-Class Matches played by Adam Ball". CricketArchive. Retrieved 26 September 2011.
  8. ↑ Turbervill, Huw (12 September 2011). "First day-night County championship game between Kent and Glamorgan fails to wow crowds". The Daily Telegraph. Retrieved 27 September 2011.
  9. ↑ "First-class Bowling For Each Team by Adam Ball". CricketArchive. Retrieved 27 September 2011.
  10. ↑ "First-class Batting and Fielding For Each Team by Adam Ball". CricketArchive. Retrieved 27 September 2011.
  11. ↑ "Twenty20 Matches played by Adam Ball". CricketArchive. Retrieved 27 September 2011.
  12. ↑ "Twenty20 Bowling For Each Team by Adam Ball". CricketArchive. Retrieved 27 September 2011.
  13. ↑ "Kent bowler eyes all-rounder role". BBC Sport. Retrieved 17 November 2013.

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