liam plunkett Profile - ICC Profile, Age, Career Info & Stats.
liam plunkett is a cricketer(sportsman) from England. His ICC profile, age, career info & stats are given below.
Full Name
Liam Edward Plunkett
Born
April 06, 1985, Middlesbrough, Yorkshire
Age
38 years old
Nicknames
Pudsy
Batting Style
Right hand Bat
Bowling Style
Right arm Fast
Playing Role
Bowler
Height
6ft 3in
Education
Nunthorpe Comprehensive
Batting Stats
Test | ODI | T20I | IPL | |
---|---|---|---|---|
Mat | 13 | 89 | 22 | 7 |
Inn | 20 | 50 | 11 | 2 |
Runs | 238 | 646 | 42 | 1 |
Avg | 15.87 | 20.84 | 6.0 | 1.0 |
SR | 46.76 | 102.7 | 123.53 | 33.33 |
HS | 55 | 56 | 18 | 1 |
NO | 5 | 19 | 4 | 1 |
100s | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
50s | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
4s | 31 | 53 | 3 | 0 |
6s | 0 | 18 | 1 | 0 |
Bowling Stats
Test | ODI | T20I | IPL | |
---|---|---|---|---|
Mat | 13 | 89 | 22 | 7 |
Inn | 25 | 87 | 22 | 7 |
Balls | 2659 | 4137 | 476 | 150 |
Runs | 1536 | 4010 | 627 | 225 |
Wkt | 41 | 135 | 25 | 4 |
BBI | 64 / 5 | 52 / 5 | 21 / 3 | 17 / 3 |
BBM | 176 / 9 | 52 / 5 | 21 / 3 | 17 / 3 |
Eco | 3.47 | 5.82 | 7.9 | 9.0 |
Avg | 37.46 | 29.7 | 25.08 | 56.25 |
5W | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
10W | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Teams he has played for:
- England
- Chattogram Challengers
- Delhi Daredevils
- Dolphins
- Durham
- Durham 2nd XI
- Durham Cricket Board
- England Lions
- England Under-19s
- Kandy Tuskers
- Karachi Kings
- Melbourne Stars
- New Jersey Triton's
- San Francisco Unicorns
- Surrey
- Sylhet Sixers
- Welsh Fire (Men)
- Yorkshire
Heres what CricBuzz says about him.
Plunkett got another chance to redeem himself when he was picked in the squad for the Test series against South Africa in 2009-10 but was relegated to the bench. The likes of Graham Onions, Tim Bresnan and Chris Woakes usurped Plunkett and the advent of injuries did not help the Durham man's cause either. He then shifted to Yorkshire, sparking a resurgence to force his way back into the English Test side following an agonizing 7-year exile. The final piece in Plunkett's comeback fell in place when he secured his maiden 5-fer in the second Test against Sri Lanka at Headingley. Plunkett also made a handy 39 with the bat in the first Test against the same opposition at Lord's.
It seemed like Plunkett had started to redeem his career but injuries started to hound him in the following Test series at home against India. He played the first couple of Tests before bowing out due to fitness issues. He hasn't represented England in red-ball cricket ever since. The closest opportunity he had was to replace an injured Steven Finn for the 2017-18 Ashes tour of Australia. But as it turned out, rookie pacer Tom Curran was picked ahead of him. The selectors clearly do not trust Plunkett's body to be durable enough to endure the stress of a five-day game.
While his Test fortunes have largely been on the dip, Plunkett has been mighty effective in the shorter formats for England, particularly the 50-over format. The major squad overhaul after the 2015 World Cup disaster saw the team opting for fearless batsmen and a more aggressive approach to bowling as well. Plunkett found himself in the new role of an enforcer, whose job was to create opportunities out of the blue, mainly during the crucial middle overs. He has been very successful at it too, constantly striking when England have needed a breakthrough, even if it has meant him giving away a few runs. His ability to hit a long ball only further adds to an already intimidating English batting line-up.
Plunkett's mother was a cancer survivor while his father Liam had to battle cancer during a time that coincided with Plunkett's prime as a cricketer. However, the pacer was determined to do his duties as a son first, even if it meant to give up cricket altogether. For a man who has suffered a lot, personally and professionally, Plunkett's resurgence is a testimony to the fact that there isn't anything that hard work and determination cannot conquer.
World Cup - Through the years and What to expect
The bearded pacer will be playing his second World Cup, albeit, after a gap of 12 years. In the 2007 edition of the tournament, Plunkett was England’s new ball partner alongside James Anderson. He took part in only three encounters and scalped four wickets, but was quite expensive in all the innings.
Jofra Archer’s threat coupled with the decline of his own pace meant that Plunkett’s spot in the 2019 World Cup squad was in a dilemma. He, however, rectified the fault by playing a few red-ball cricket matches. Since the 2017 Champions Trophy, Plunkett has taken 21 wickets between the 11th and 40th over - highest tally by an English pacer in the middle overs. Plunkett’s role in the team is pretty straightforward - consistently pound in the back of a length deliveries and mix it up with the cutters. While it may seem monotonous, that’s the tactic which has worked well for England and Plunkett.
By Hariprasad Sadanandan
Heres what ESPNcricinfo says about him.
Liam Plunkett didn't gain too many headlines after England's World Cup victory - Ben Stokes made sure of that - but, by the time the tournament ended, he could rest assured he had played a full part in the triumph.
By claiming three wickets in the final - including the key one of Kane Willamson - Plunkett had replicated the role he had fulfilled all tournament: offering his captain control and the promise of wickets in the middle-overs.
It had felt, in the months ahead of the announcement of the final squad for the World Cup, that 34-year-old Plunkett was clinging on to his place. His pace, once as sharp as anyone in the land, had dropped and his spot in the side was under threat from the likes of David Willey, Chris Jordan and the Curran brothers.
Ultimately, however, his increasing skill - his cutters, delivered from height, proved desperately hard for batsmen to negotiate on surfaces that proved surprisingly receptive for him - won him a place in the squad and it was no coincidence that England won all seven of the World Cup matches he played. Both his economy-rate - he conceded 4.85 runs per over - and average - his 11 wickets came at a cost of 24.11 apiece - were among the best in the competition. Still, it was not a complete surprise when, just a couple of months later, his name was omitted from the list of central contracts for the following year. "Disappointment is an understatement," he tweeted in response.
Plunkett had feared his career was over long before all that. A move south, from Durham to Yorkshire, after the 2012 season, revived him. Rather than slipping out of the game, he rediscovered his pace and ambition in one of English cricket's story-book recoveries. England, pummelled by the Australian Mitchell Johnson, and eager to find an out-and-out quick bowler of their own, liked what they saw during a Lions recall, and he played the four Tests of the 2014 summer as a shock trooper - two each against Sri Lanka and India - before succumbing to injury.
Plunkett's return was not entirely untroubled; at times his control deserted him and his around-the-wicket approach did not always drum up the anticipated menace. But he stayed true to the exhortations of Yorkshire's coach, Jason Gillespie, to keep it simple and just bowl fast and he took 18 wickets in four Tests, with his match figures of nine for 176 against Sri Lanka on his adopted home ground of Headingley the highlight, a feat overshadowed by Sri Lanka's last-over win. Sternly bearded, with an upright style and strikingly gym-honed upper body, he regularly exceeded speeds of 90mph, but England seemed to conclude that subtlety and control was missing and thereafter chose to utilise him exclusively in white-ball cricket.
Plunkett's initial selection for England's tour of Pakistan and India in 2005-06 represented the culmination of a two-year rise to prominence. A bustling fast-medium seamer blessed with an ability to bowl an occasional unplayable ball and a powerful striker down the order, he briefly promised to have a lengthy international career only for issues with his control - and, in his final season at Durham in 2012, a loss of confidence in his action - to lower his sights.
Having made his first-class debut for Durham in 2003, Plunkett took on immediate responsibilities in the absence of Steve Harmison and the injured Mark Davies, and in 2005 took 50 wickets in a season for the first time. He made his Test debut in a thumping England defeat against Pakistan in Lahore, following the withdrawal of Simon Jones with an ankle injury, and announced himself as a capable allrounder with a composed half-century in only his second ODI against the same opposition.
He was selected for England's Ashes campaign in Australia in 2006-7 and for seven gruelling weeks he was the forgotten man of a dismal Test tour. But as England, against all predictions, regrouped to win the one-day series, he seized his opportunity to impress with 12 wickets in the one-day series, including 3 for 43 in the decisive second final against Australia. It was a performance that secured his World Cup passage, though he only played three games and lacked the incisiveness he had shown in Australia.
A lack of England engagements freed Plunkett up for his Durham duties, and in 2007 he played a role in their first domestic trophy triumph, in their sixteenth year of first-class status, taking three wickets as Durham won the rain-interrupted Friends Provident final by 125 runs at Lord's. A regular in England Lions squads, Plunkett spent a winter as the Dolphins' overseas player in South Africa in 2007-08 and shared in Durham's Championship success the following summer. Durham retained the title in 2009 and Plunkett was at the forefront of their success with 49 wickets in the season, including match figures of 9 for 149 in the innings win over Nottinghamshire that sealed the title.
Plunkett looked set for a second crack at international cricket when he was named in England's squad for their Test series against South Africa in 2009-10, but he was overtaken by the likes of Graham Onions, his Durham team mate, Stuart Broad and Ajmal Shahzad in the fast-bowling ranks and has had to be content with sporadic appearances since.
Subsequently, a combination of injuries and problems with his action saw Plunkett slip down the pecking order at Durham and after two lean seasons, amounting to three Championship appearances, he was told he could look for a new county. Yorkshire took the opportunity to offer him a three-year contract, enabling him to team up again with his former Durham coach, Martyn Moxon, the director of cricket at Headingley, who like Gillespie proved a positive influence. He immediately showed signs of a resurgence, taking 36 wickets in 12 Championship matches. Yorkshire capped him. As he was born in Middlesbrough - part of the old county boundaries - they felt they had been entitled to him all along. With the club looking to rebuild, however, he moved to Surrey on a three-year deal at the end of the 2018 season.
ESPNcricinfo staff