jake ball Profile - ICC Profile, Age, Career Info & Stats.
jake ball is a cricketer(sportsman) from England. His ICC profile, age, career info & stats are given below.
Full Name
Jacob Timothy Ball
Born
March 14, 1991, Mansfield, Nottinghamshire
Age
32 years old
Batting Style
Right hand Bat
Bowling Style
Right arm Fast medium
Playing Role
Bowler
Batting Stats
Test | ODI | T20I | IPL | |
---|---|---|---|---|
Mat | 4 | 18 | 2 | - |
Inn | 8 | 6 | - | - |
Runs | 67 | 38 | - | - |
Avg | 8.38 | 9.5 | - | - |
SR | 53.6 | 77.55 | - | - |
HS | 31 | 28 | - | - |
NO | 0 | 2 | - | - |
100s | 0 | 0 | - | - |
50s | 0 | 0 | - | - |
4s | 8 | 6 | - | - |
6s | 1 | 0 | - | - |
Bowling Stats
Test | ODI | T20I | IPL | |
---|---|---|---|---|
Mat | 4 | 18 | 2 | - |
Inn | 6 | 18 | 2 | - |
Balls | 612 | 947 | 42 | - |
Runs | 343 | 980 | 83 | - |
Wkt | 3 | 21 | 2 | - |
BBI | 47 / 1 | 51 / 5 | 39 / 1 | - |
BBM | 47 / 1 | 51 / 5 | 39 / 1 | - |
Eco | 3.36 | 6.21 | 11.86 | - |
Avg | 114.33 | 46.67 | 41.5 | - |
5W | 0 | 1 | 0 | - |
10W | 0 | 0 | 0 | - |
Teams he has played for:
- JJ Ball
- BN French
- England
- Dubai Capitals
- England Under-19s
- Nottinghamshire
- Nottinghamshire 2nd XI
- Sydney Sixers
- Welsh Fire (Men)
Heres what CricBuzz says about him.
With a bit of experience under his belt, Ball impressed one and all in the domestic circuit in the following year. A season which he would remark as the stepping stone to his career. Although his success revolved mostly around white ball cricket, Ball did enough to claim Nottinghamshire's young player of the year award in 2012, which paved way for an extension of the contract.
Just when things prospered at a brisk pace, Ball succumbed to a foot injury in 2014 which kept him cricket-isolated for nearly 10 months. Post his comeback, he feathered rustiness, working closely with his coaches in Nottinghamshire, to seal a slot for the England Lions squad in 2015. More often, he led the Lions bowling attack during the 2015-16 season which stood as a testimony to all the years of grit.
Many expected Ball to sparkle in colored cricket, but as luck would have it, he earned his maiden call-up for Test match cricket, against Sri Lanka in May 2016. Destiny, however, seemed to have different plans as he ended up doing the waterboy duties throughout the series, and little did he knew of what was to come a couple of months later.
In front of a capacity crowd at Lord's, against a country - Pakistan - that was touring for the first time in 6 years, Jake Ball became the 671st Test cricketer to represent England. Thanks to injuries to Anderson and Stokes. His debut game, howbeit, was overshadowed by the spin of Yasir Shah and Pakistan's emotional win. Nerves got better of him as he went wicket-less for 29 overs after nipping out Azhar Ali in his 7th over. To his delight, England selectors showed faith in his abilities and picked him for the tours of Bangladesh and India during winter 2016-17.
Ball soon erased his bleak memories, by plugging off a match-winning performance in his debut game in limited overs format. In October 2016. His consistent, natural extra bounce troubled Bangladesh which helped him bag a fifer and the Man of the Match award.
Ball's Test return came at the cost of an injury to his Nottinghamshire team-mate, Stuart Broad. Ball went onto play the final 2 Tests on India tour, but couldn't create any telling impact. He did assert his place in the limited-overs side with all the necessary variations that modern day cricket demands, but one would say he is far from spearheading the English attack in Test cricket.
Ball was a surprise pick for England's Ashes tour of Australia in 2017-18. Considering his moderate speeds and conventional nature of being a swing bowler, the inclusion did raise eye brows. His struggles in the longer format continued in the opening Test as well, at the Gabba was dropped after that game. While Ball can be a handful at home or in conditions that aides movement, he has proven to be inefficient on placid surfaces or pitches that have negligible amount of lateral movement. Like a majority of England players these days, Ball's skill set suits the limited-overs formats more than red-ball cricket.
Cricbuzz Staff
Heres what ESPNcricinfo says about him.
Jake Ball, a powerfully-built pace bowler who had made his mark at Nottinghamshire primarily in white-ball cricket, made his England debut in Tests and ODIs during the 2016 season. His ODI debut was the more spectacular as he became the first England bowler to take five wickets on a one-day international debut. The fact it came in challenging conditions in Dhaka made it even more meritorious.
His Test debut had come earlier that summer, against Pakistan at Lord's, and with 54 first-class wickets at 23 to his name he was selected for close-season duties, too, on winter tours of Bangladesh and India. There was to be no repeat of his startling ODI introduction. Indeed, the day after he was chosen for England's 2017-18 Ashes tour party, he went for 94 in an ODI against West Indies in Southampton (England's third most expensive analysis at the time), only for England to ease his pain by waltzing to a 289 target with nine wickets and 12 overs to spare.
The nephew of Bruce French, the former Nottinghamshire and England wicket-keeper, Ball is a former England Under-19 international. He made his Nottinghamshire debut at the end of the 2009 season, against Sussex in a Pro40 match at Hove. Bowling right-arm medium-pace, he claimed Rory Hamilton-Brown as his first senior wicket but when he batted he was out first ball as Dwayne Smith completed a hat-trick.
He played in two Under-19 Test matches in 2010, taking 5 for 64 in the second innings against Sri Lanka at Scarborough, to set up an England win. He made his first class debut for Nottinghamshire in the Champion County v MCC match in Abu Dhabi in March 2011, taking 3 for 72 in the second innings. Most of his county cricket so far has been in the one-day, in which he impressed enough in 2012 to be named Nottinghamshire's Young Player of the Year and be awarded a one-year contract extension.
Ball's biggest impact in the early part of his Nottinghamshire career came in the semifinal of the YB40 in 2013 when he took 4 for 25, his best figures in senior cricket, as Somerset were beaten by some distance. Ball missed the final because of a back injury but could at least watch with satisfaction from afar as Notts brushed aside Glamorgan to claim their fist piece of one-day silverware for more than 20 years.
After his 2014 season was disrupted by a broken foot his continued success in white-ball cricket in 2015 earned him recognition. His reputation as a fast bowler of promise was cemented when he was one of a group of young fast bowlers called up for an England Development Programme fast bowling camp and given a place on an England Lions tour of Pakistan. His breakthrough season had brought 39 Championship wickets, allied to a late-order penchant for six hitting.
ESPNcricinfo staff