matthew cross Profile - ICC Profile, Age, Career Info & Stats.
matthew cross is a cricketer(sportsman) from Scotland. His ICC profile, age, career info & stats are given below.
Full Name
Matthew Henry Cross
Born
October 15, 1992, Aberdeen
Age
31 years old
Batting Style
Right hand Bat
Fielding Position
Wicketkeeper
Playing Role
Wicketkeeper Batter
Batting Stats
Test | ODI | T20I | IPL | |
---|---|---|---|---|
Mat | - | 89 | 64 | - |
Inn | - | 83 | 54 | - |
Runs | - | 1941 | 1039 | - |
Avg | - | 23.96 | 22.59 | - |
SR | - | 71.02 | 115.83 | - |
HS | - | 114 | 66 | - |
NO | - | 2 | 8 | - |
100s | - | 2 | 0 | - |
50s | - | 10 | 5 | - |
4s | - | 177 | 105 | - |
6s | - | 23 | 25 | - |
Bowling Stats
Test | ODI | T20I | IPL | |
---|---|---|---|---|
Mat | - | 89 | 64 | - |
Inn | - | - | - | - |
Balls | - | - | - | - |
Runs | - | - | - | - |
Wkt | - | - | - | - |
BBI | - | - | - | - |
BBM | - | - | - | - |
Eco | - | - | - | - |
Avg | - | - | - | - |
5W | - | - | - | - |
10W | - | - | - | - |
Teams he has played for:
- Scotland
- Essex 2nd XI
- Loughborough Marylebone Cricket Club University (England)
- Marylebone Cricket Club Young Cricketers
- Montreal Tigers
- Nottinghamshire
- Nottinghamshire 2nd XI
- Scotland Under-13s
- Scotland Under-15s
- Scotland Under-17s
Heres what CricBuzz says about him.
Cross played his first T20I match for Scotland in 2013, against Kenya. He was subsequently selected in the T20 squad to participate in the 2013 World Cup Qualifiers in the UAE. His ODI debut came a year later in 2014, when he was a part of Scotland's squad for the World Cup Qualifiers. He hit two fifties and as an opening batsman, provided the team with good starts in the tournament. However, his form suffered over the summer and he was dropped down the order in the World Cup acclimatisation tour. With age on his side, Cross has a bright future ahead of him.
by Sonali Dhulap
As of January 2015
Heres what ESPNcricinfo says about him.
A wicketkeeper-batter from Aberdeen, Matthew Cross got into the Scotland set-up at U-13 level, progressed up the ranks, making a good impression as vice-captain for the U-19s in the 2012 World Cup in Australia, and then broke into the senior side the following year.
In his younger years Cross showed promise at football, representing Aberdeen FC at U-15 level but committed to cricket while juggling his engineering degree studies at MCC Loughborough University. In 2013 he was on the books at Nottinghamshire and scored 47 in his only senior game, against Bangladesh A. He was later a part of the MCC Young Cricketers Programme at Lord's for two years and had other trials around the county scene with Durham, Essex and Kent, but didn't make it in English first-class cricket.
Despite that lack of success, Cross is considered arguably the finest pure wicketkeeper of his era in Associate cricket. His leg-side stumping of England's James Taylor standing up to the medium pace of Josh Davey at the 2015 World Cup was the first of many highlight-reel-worthy dismissals.
If there's a blemish on Cross' CV, his batting record at times appears underwhelming for a player of his calibre, especially one who has spent a significant chunk of time opening the batting. His high-water mark came in 2018, when he made twin hundreds against UAE and a rollicking 48 off 39 balls - including ten fours - that helped kickstart Scotland's historic ODI victory over No. 1-ranked England at the Grange. But that innings in some ways sums up much of Cross' Scotland career with the bat, which has often been good but rarely great.
He was named vice-captain in 2022, and when Richie Berrington suffered a hand injury against New Zealand during the home summer Cross made his Scotland captaincy debut in a stand-in capacity on his home ground in Aberdeen in August during an ODI tri-series against the UAE and USA.