Daniel Bell-Drummond

Daniel Bell-Drummond
Personal information
Full name Daniel James Bell-Drummond
Born (1993-08-04) 4 August 1993
Lewisham, London
Nickname DBD, Deebs
Batting style Right-handed
Bowling style Right-arm medium-fast
Role Batsman
Domestic team information
YearsTeam
2011– Kent (squad no. 23)
FC debut 18 May 2011 Kent v Loughborough MCCU
LA debut 31 July 2011 Kent v Worcestershire
Career statistics
Competition FC LA T20
Matches 68 36 45
Runs scored 3,824 1,285 1,095
Batting average 37.12 40.15 25.46
100s/50s 9/20 1/10 1/6
Top score 206* 171* 112*
Balls bowled 41 12 –
Wickets 0 0 –
Bowling average – – –
5 wickets in innings – – –
10 wickets in match – n/a n/a
Best bowling – – –
Catches/stumpings 27/0 11/– 11/–
Source: CricInfo, 2 December 2016

Daniel Bell-Drummond (born 4 August 1993) is an English professional cricketer, who plays for Kent County Cricket Club as an opening batsman. He has represented England at youth level and has played for the England Lions cricket team at senior level.

Early life

Bell-Drummond was born in Lewisham in south-east London in 1993. His parents are of Jamaican descent and he has described how watching both West Indian and English cricket home was a major infuence on his development.[1][2] He was spotted by Kent County Cricket Club playing for Catford Wanderers as a seven-year-old and progressed through the county system, scoring his first century for the under-10 side aged just seven.[1][2] He played for Kent age group teams, scoring centuries at every level, before joining the Cricket Academy at Kent where he was awarded the John Aitken Gary Trophy as the Academy Scholar of the Year in 2010.[1][3] He signed a three-year professional contract with Kent in September 2010 at age 17.[4][5][6]

Bell-Drummond won a scholarship to Millfield School[7] and played cricket for the school team as well as for England at under–15, under–17 and under–19 levels, captaining the under–17 side against Sri Lanka in 2010.[8] He completed his sixth form studies at the school in 2012 after signing his professional contract with Kent[9][10] and was named the Young Wisden Schools Cricketer of the Year in the 2012 edition of Wisden after scoring over 800 runs for Millfield in 2011.[11]

England youth cricket

Bell-Drummond played for England under-19s in a series against Sri Lanka in 2010 and made his youth Test debut on 21 July 2010 in a 199 run defeat against Sri Lanka at the County Ground, Northampton. He made 32 and 1 opening the batting with Yorkshire youngster Joe Root.[12] In the following Test Bell-Drummond helped England level the series with an unbeaten 88 in a six wicket victory.[13]

In July 2011 Bell-Drummond played in a one-day series against South Africa under-19s. He top scored with 86 in the first match at Edgbaston with 11 boundaries including 1 six, however it was not enough to avoid defeat.[14] In the second game of the series he again top scored with another half century, recording a score of 68, which levelled the series at 1–1.[15] Bell-Drummond also hit half centuries in the fifth and seventh youth ODI's recording scores of 72 and 54 respectively.[16][17] He was the leading run scorer for England, scoring 329 runs in seven innings at an average of 47.00 as England lost the series 2–4.[18]

In April 2012 he played for England under-19s against the Australia, India and New Zealand under-19s in North Queensland. He began with a match-winning 103* against Australia, and topped the 50-over tournament's run-scorers with 287 (off 312 balls) at an average of 95.66.[19][20]

Senior cricket career

Bell-Drummond made his first-class debut for Kent at the age of 17 in a University match against Loughborough MCCU and made a fluent 80 from 103 balls, an innings which included 11 fours and two sixes. He also shared a stand of 116 with team mate Sam Northeast.[21] On 31 July, he made his senior one-day debut in a victorious Clydesdale Bank 40 match against Worcestershire. He made an aggressive 42 from 30 balls including 7 boundaries and 2 sixes before falling to Saeed Ajmal.[22][23]

He made his maiden first class century in April 2013 against a Cardiff University side and used the innings to become a regular in the Kent side during the 2013 season.[24][25] After cementing his place in the Kent side in all forms of cricket and scoring a century against the touring Australian side in June 2015, Bell-Drummond was awarded his county cap in August 2015.[25][26][27][28] In August 2015 he deputised as an emergency wicket-keeper in Kent's County Championship match at Derby when Sam Billings suffered a finger injury, keeping wicket until Ryan Davies arrived from Second XI duty to act as a substitute.[29]

In December 2015 Bell-Drummond made his first appearance for England Lions against the United Arab Emirates in a T20 match in Dubai. He scored 5 runs from 5 deliveries opening the batting. Later the same month he played in the final game of the five match T20 series against Pakistan A scoring 17 runs.[30]

Bell-Drummond made an excellent start to the 2016 domestic season, hitting his maiden first-class double-hundred against Loughborough MCCU followed by a century in his first innings of the County Championship season against Leicestershire.[25][31] He and Tom Latham then combined for two first-wicket century partnerships in Kent's opening home match of the Championship against Glamorgan, only the third time this had been achieved in the same Championship match in the County's history.[32][33] Bell-Drummond was selected for England Lions again during the 2016 summer, playing limited overs matches against both Pakistan A and Sri Lanka A. He scored his highest List A cricket score of 171 not out against Sri Lanka A at Canterbury during the series of matches as he combined with Ben Duckett to post the second highest List A partnership on record.[34][35] During the 2016–17 English off-season Bell-Drummond was again selected for the Lions, playing against the UAE in Dubai during December.

Career Best Performances

as of 26 July 2016

Batting
Score Fixture Venue Season
First-class cricket 206 not out Kent v Loughborough MCC University Canterbury 2016
List A cricket 171 not out England Lions v Sri Lanka A Canterbury 2016
Twenty20 cricket 112 not out Kent Spitfires v Surrey Tunbridge Wells 2016

References

  1. 1 2 3 Pearson G (2011) West Indian influence rubbing off on future Kent ace Bell-Drummond, Kent News, 2011-08-07. Retrieved 2016-12-03.
  2. 1 2 Moonda F (2012) Bell-Drummond happy to take slow road, CricInfo, 2012-07-16. Retrieved 2016-12-03.
  3. ↑ Kent’s Bell-Drummond collects academy gong, Bexley Times, 2010-09-13. Retrieved 2016-12-03.
  4. ↑ Rising England cricket starlet signs three-year deal with Kent, Bexley Times, 2010-09-29. Retrieved 2016-12-03.
  5. ↑ England Under-19 batsman Bell-Drummond signs for Kent, Cricinfo, 2010-09-29. Retrieved 2011-08-10.
  6. ↑ Kent contract for Daniel Bell-Drummond, BBC Sport, 2010-09-30. Retrieved 2011-08-11.
  7. ↑ Holden R (2015) A crying shame, The Nightwatchman vol.8, 2015-03-17. Retrieved 2016-12-03.
  8. ↑ Bell-Drummond to skipper England U17 side, Bexley Times, 2010-08-05. Retrieved 2016-12-03.
  9. ↑ Three Lions honour for Millfield students, SomersetLive, 2011-01-28. Retrieved 2016-12-03.
  10. ↑ Davies G A (2011) Millfield School's Daniel Bell-Drummond impresses on his debut for Kent, Daily Telegraph, 2011-05-26. Retrieved 2016-12-03.
  11. ↑ Wilde S (2013) Wisden Cricketers of the Year: A Celebration of Cricket's Greatest Players, p.369, A & C Black. (Available online, retrieved 2016-12-03).
  12. ↑ "England Under-19s v Sri Lanka Under-19s". Cricinfo. 21–24 July 2010. Retrieved 10 August 2011.
  13. ↑ "England Under-19s v Sri Lanka Under-19s". Cricinfo. 27–30 July 2010. Retrieved 10 August 2011.
  14. ↑ "England Under-19s v South Africa Under-19s". Cricinfo. 16 July 2011. Retrieved 10 August 2011.
  15. ↑ "England Under-19s v South Africa Under-19s 2nd Youth ODI". Cricinfo. 18 July 2011. Retrieved 11 August 2011.
  16. ↑ "England Under-19s v South Africa Under-19s 5th Youth ODI". Cricinfo. 26 July 2011. Retrieved 11 August 2011.
  17. ↑ "England Under-19s v South Africa Under-19s 7thYouth ODI". Cricinfo. 30 July 2011. Retrieved 11 August 2011.
  18. ↑ "Records / South Africa Under-19s in England Youth ODI Series, 2011 / Most runs". Cricinfo. Retrieved 11 August 2011.
  19. ↑ Daniel Bell-Drummond, boundaries vs. New Zealand U19, April 2012. YouTube. Retrieved 6 May 2012.
  20. ↑ "Records / Quadrangular Under-19 Series (Australia), 2012 / Most runs". Cricinfo. Retrieved 6 May 2012.
  21. ↑ "Kent v Loughborough MCCU". Cricinfo. 18–19 May 2011. Retrieved 11 August 2011.
  22. ↑ "Clydesdale Bank 40 – Group A Worcestershire v Kent". Cricinfo. 31 July 2011. Retrieved 11 August 2011.
  23. ↑ "Van Jaarsveld leads from the front". ECB. 31 July 2011. Retrieved 11 August 2011.
  24. ↑ "Kent teenager hits maiden first-class century". BBC Sport. 11 April 2013. Retrieved 13 July 2013.
  25. 1 2 3 Wilson J (2016) Bell-Drummond stays grounded as he pursues the dream, CricInfo, 2016-04-27. Retrieved 2016-04-27.
  26. ↑ Barrett C (2015) Ashes 2015: Kent's Daniel Bell-Drummond in disbelief after ton against Australia, Sydney Morning Herald, 2015-06-29. Retrieved 2016-12-03.
  27. ↑ Century against Australia delights Kent's Daniel Bell-Drummond, BBC Sport, 2015-06-29. Retrieved 2016-04-05.
  28. ↑ Daniel Bell-Drummond and Sam Billings awarded county caps, Kent County Cricket Club, 2015-08-05. Retrieved 2015-09-30.
  29. ↑ Hunn hits back after Godleman hundred, CricInfo, 2015-08-21. Retrieved 2016-09-10.
  30. ↑ Malan heroics seal the series after tie, ESPN cricinfo, 2015-12-16. Retrieved 2015-12-16.
  31. ↑ Bell-Drummond handles Foxes after Dickson handles ball, CricInfo, 2016-04-24. Retrieved 2016-05-04.
  32. ↑ Webb N (2016) County Championship: Kent beat Glamorgan by 10 wickets, BBC Wales sport website, 2016-05-04. Retrieved 2016-05-04.
  33. ↑ Bell-Drummond and Latham continue prolific start, CricInfo, 2016-05-04. Retrieved 2016-05-04.
  34. ↑ Duckett double-ton as Lions smash records, CricInfo, 2016-07-25. Retrieved 2016-08-07.
  35. ↑ Duckett's 'crazy week' showcases depth of batting power, CricInfo, 2016-07-29. Retrieved 2016-08-07.

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Preceded by
Will Vanderspar		 Young Wisden Schools Cricketer of the Year
2012 		Succeeded by
Tom Abell
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