laurie evans Profile - ICC Profile, Age, Career Info & Stats.
laurie evans is a cricketer(sportsman) from England. His ICC profile, age, career info & stats are given below.
Full Name
Laurie John Evans
Born
October 12, 1987, Lambeth, London
Age
36 years old
Batting Style
Right hand Bat
Bowling Style
Right arm Offbreak
Playing Role
Batter
Height
6ft
Education
Whitgift School, The John Fisher School, Durham Uni
Teams he has played for:
- Barbados Royals
- Colombo Kings
- Dhaka Platoon
- Durham MCCU
- ECB Development of Excellence XI
- Kabul Zwanan
- Malden Wanderers
- Manchester Originals (Men)
- Marylebone Cricket Club
- Multan Sultans
- Oval Invincibles (Men)
- Perth Scorchers
- Rajshahi Kings
- St Kitts and Nevis Patriots
- Surrey
- Surrey 2nd XI
- Sussex
- Warwickshire
Heres what CricBuzz says about him.
Beginning his career as a seamer who could bat, Evans was nurtured by Graeme Fowler at Durham University who reminded Evans of his strengths and later turned him into a flamboyant batsman at the academy. He scored an impressive hundred for Durham MCCU in his second match for them and displayed sparks of clean hitting throughout his stay. Later, he moved to Surrey seeking better opportunities, but the move didn't turn out as anticipated with competition for places getting incredibly tough.
After Surrey released him in 2010, Evans joined Warwickshire immediately and became a legend of sorts with the second elevens where he knocked over twenty hundreds after playing nearly 100 games during the period of 2010-13. That purple patch enabled an opportunity for Evans to represent the first elevens at Warwickshire, but he was soon found wanting against the short ball and eventually lost his Championship side place in 2014.
Although Evans produced some memorable white-ball performances at Warwickshire - match-winning 30-ball 53 in Natwest T20 Blast final in 2014, 15-ball 43 against Surrey in the Royal London One Day Cup the same year and et al. - his form faded soon after, ending his contract with the Birmingham side in 2016. He joined Sussex ahead of the 2017 season and had a decent run in limited overs whilst failing to seize the opportunities in Championship matches. In Sussex's plans going ahead, Evans remains a key component of their limited overs team.
Heres what ESPNcricinfo says about him.
Always a player with a clear talent, it was not until after his 30th birthday that Laurie Evans began to gain worldwide recognition as a white-ball batsman of real class. Primarily a finisher for the most part of his limited-overs career, Evans batted with maturity and poise at No. 3 for Sussex in the 2018 T20 Blast and finished as the tournament's leading run-scorer, opening up opportunities in the Afghanistan, Bangladesh and Caribbean Premier Leagues as well as the Pakistan Super League over the next 12 months.
Evans only took up cricket seriously as a 15-year-old, having played at scrumhalf in the Harlequins academy until a series of shoulder injuries provided his rugby career with a setback. He developed into a stylish batsman while at Whitgift School and was soon drafted into the Surrey academy set-up. He spent a year at Durham University, and a century against Lancashire for the MCCU side in his second first-class match convinced him to drop out and take his chances with Surrey.
But the move backfired as he fell out of favour with director of cricket Chris Adams, and was released in 2010 despite prolific second-team form. He joined Warwickshire at the end of the year, and eventually broke through in 2013, scoring three hundreds and 950 runs in the first-class season.
He struggled to nail down a spot in the Championship side from that point onwards, but was man-of-the-match for a 28-ball half-century as Birmingham won the Blast in 2014. His highest Championship score of 213 came in a draw with Sussex at Edgbaston in 2015, but opportunities in first-class cricket continued to be limited, and he joined Sussex in 2017.
His first season at Hove was relatively quiet, despite good 50-over form, but in 2018 his T20 runs paved the way for him to prove himself on the global franchise circuit. After 13 runs in five innings for Rajshahi Kings in the 2018-19 BPL, he made a maiden T20 hundred against Comilla Victorians as an opener, and impressed for St Kitts and Nevis in the CPL after another solid white-ball season for Sussex.
ESPNcricinfo staff