adam riley Profile - ICC Profile, Age, Career Info & Stats.
adam riley is a cricketer(sportsman) from England. His ICC profile, age, career info & stats are given below.
Full Name
Adam Edward Nicholas Riley
Born
March 23, 1992, Sidcup, Kent
Age
31 years old
Batting Style
Right hand Bat
Bowling Style
Right arm Offbreak
Education
Beths Grammar School, Bexley
Teams he has played for:
- Kent
- Kent 2nd XI
- Loughborough Marylebone Cricket Club University (England)
Heres what CricBuzz says about him.
Riley came up the ranks playing university cricket for Loughborough MCCU before graduating to Kent's second XI. He impressed the team management to such an extent that he was soon playing for the first XI - displacing ageing off-spinner, James Tredwell. After a solid first season in 2016, Riley took bigger strides in 2014 and ended the season with 48 wickets, thus ensuring a permanent place in the playing eleven. However, his form soon faltered and within no time had been relegated to the second eleven.
Heres what ESPNcricinfo says about him.
The abrupt retirement of Graeme Swann during an Ashes whitewash in Australia in 2013-14 left England examining their spin bowling resources and realizing with trepidation that the cupboard was almost bare. They settled on Moeen Ali as a spin-bowling allrounder, but as they gazed around the counties for promising young talent many eyes settled on Kent's Adam Riley. Peter Such, England's spin bowling coach, was among those who held him in high regard and there was hint of Such, too, in the flight he sought from an upright action.
But he was an inexperienced spinner and reality soon dawned that he had some way to go before he had learned his trade. There was talk of remodelling his action and of bowling faster. He became the forgotten men among young England spinners - and there weren't many to forget. So when in 2018 he celebrated his first Championship wickets for three years in a Kent victory against Derbyshire in Derby (7 for 146 in the match) it was cause for relief.
James Tredwell's absences with England during 2013 had allowed Riley to advance his offspinning career in his third year in the Kent first team. The young Kentish Man took 7 for 50 against Hampshire and averaged a respectable 27 with the ball in Championship cricket. He was a regular in both the FL T20 and YB40 sides, claiming 16 wickets altogether in the short forms of the game.
The attention was all the greater in 2014. His return of 48 wickets at 32.58 was a solid enough return as he became a key part of Kent's increasingly youthful side and he went on a Lions tour to South Africa before his progress was halted by a muscle tear that refused to heal and modifications to his action.
His presence had been enough for Tredwell to accept a loan spell at Sussex in mid-season search of one-day cricket, although he returned to the Kent fold at the end of the season. Perhaps it was fortunate that he did because Riley's form faltered with only eight Championship wickets in as many matches and then dried completely. Riley's return late in 2018 coincided with Tredwell's retirement.
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