alex lees Profile - ICC Profile, Age, Career Info & Stats.
alex lees is a cricketer(sportsman) from England. His ICC profile, age, career info & stats are given below.
Full Name
Alexander Zak Lees
Born
April 14, 1993, Halifax, Yorkshire
Age
30 years old
Batting Style
Left hand Bat
Bowling Style
Legbreak
Playing Role
Opening Batter
Batting Stats
Test | ODI | T20I | IPL | |
---|---|---|---|---|
Mat | 10 | - | - | - |
Inn | 19 | - | - | - |
Runs | 453 | - | - | - |
Avg | 23.84 | - | - | - |
SR | 43.06 | - | - | - |
HS | 67 | - | - | - |
NO | 0 | - | - | - |
100s | 0 | - | - | - |
50s | 2 | - | - | - |
4s | 59 | - | - | - |
6s | 1 | - | - | - |
Bowling Stats
Test | ODI | T20I | IPL | |
---|---|---|---|---|
Mat | 10 | - | - | - |
Inn | - | - | - | - |
Balls | - | - | - | - |
Runs | - | - | - | - |
Wkt | - | - | - | - |
BBI | - | - | - | - |
BBM | - | - | - | - |
Eco | - | - | - | - |
Avg | - | - | - | - |
5W | - | - | - | - |
10W | - | - | - | - |
Teams he has played for:
- England
- Durham
- England Lions
- England Performance Programme
- Yorkshire
- Yorkshire 2nd XI
- Yorkshire Academy
- Yorkshire Under-17s
Heres what CricBuzz says about him.
Under Lees's captaincy, Yorkshire reached the finals day of the domestic Twenty20 competition, but his reign as Yorkshire's captain lasted for only one year. Jason Gillespie, the incumbent coach quit his job after securing back-to-back county championships and the new coach, Andrew Gale, insisted on having one captain across all formats of the game. Thus, Lees lost his captaincy to Garry Ballance and it also seemed to have had an effect on his batting.
However, Lees enjoyed a renaissance of sorts in 2017 as he made more than 1,000 runs and nearly made hundreds in both innings against Durham. While Lees has had a turnaround in his career, it wasn't the case in 2010 - when he first played for Yorkshire. Mentored under Paul Farbrace, Yorkshire' second XI coach, Lees had captained various second XI teams of Yorkshire - at different age groups - and also became the county's youngest ever double centurion - when he made 275 not out against Derbyshire.
He was chosen for the Performance squad trip to Australia at the end of the year and was also a part of the Lions team for the tour of Sri Lanka.
Heres what ESPNcricinfo says about him.
Alex Lees finally won senior England recognition in 2022, almost a decade on from being anointed one of the best young players in the land. His Test career started in inauspicious circumstances, as Lees averaged 21.00 (with a strike rate of 27.39) during England's 1-0 defeat in the West Indies, but he was a willing convert to the subsequent "Bazball" revolution that followed the appointment of Brendon McCullum as coach.
A Yorkshire prodigy, Lees lost his way and left his home county before rediscovering his appetite for heavy scoring at the top of the order with Durham. While his time in the England side was short-lived, he played his part as they recorded six wins out of seven at the start of McCullum's tenure - notably helping set up their record run chase of 378 against India with a crisp 56 off 65 during a century opening stand. After losing his place to Ben Duckett, he found an even higher gear back in the county game, piling up 1347 runs at 70.89 to fire Durham's 2023 promotion campaign.
Lees had been showered with accolades early in his career. Judges of the quality of Geoffrey Boycott and Michael Vaughan predicted England honours ahead and his stock was such that in 2016 he became Yorkshire's captain in both one-day formats - at 22, the youngest to hold the office, remarkably, since Lord Hawke. He led Yorkshire to only their second appearance in Twenty20 Finals Day, but his spell in the captaincy lasted only one year and was widely regarded as a mistake. Jason Gillespie left and the incoming coach, Andrew Gale, preferred one captain across all formats.
Things did not work out as planned at Yorkshire. By the time he left Headingley for Chester-le-Street in August 2018, loaned out to Durham ahead of a permanent move, he had long cut a disconsolate figure, averaging 35.10 from 82 first-class matches. Yorkshire accepted that a change was necessary, conceding that he could well excel at a new county. Durham believed that, at 25, they had signed a player who could restate his international pedigree; three hundreds in his first full season, leading the way for his new side in the Championship, suggested they might be right.
Lees, who first represented Yorkshire at Under-13 level and who went on to skipper the Academy and 2nd XI teams, made his first-class debut aged 17. After much soul-searching, he turned down a chance to represent England Under-19s at the 2012 World Cup because he had recently lost his father. The following year, he signed full professional terms and went on to become the youngest Yorkshire player to make a Championship double-century - 20 years and 95 days - when he hit an unbeaten 275 against Derbyshire at Chesterfield. He had earlier made a maiden Championship hundred against Middlesex. It was no surprise therefore to find himself on an England Lions tour to Sri Lanka early in 2014 (where he scored another hundred on debut).
Lees' part in Yorkshire's 2014 Championship triumph amplified his reputation. He did not make 1000 Championship runs, outshone statistically by his opening partner Adam Lyth, but England observers liked his style and he continued to feature for the Lions. He also claimed both the PCA and CWC Young Player awards.
The following summer was more challenging, with just one Championship hundred as Yorkshire won back-to-back titles. But the limited-overs captaincy seemed to invigorate him, and in 2016 he topped Yorkshire's run charts with 1165 runs; against Durham, he fell 12 runs shy of becoming the first batsman to make two hundreds in a first-class match at Headingley.
ESPNcricinfo staff