nick compton Profile - ICC Profile, Age, Career Info & Stats.
nick compton is a cricketer(sportsman) from England. His ICC profile, age, career info & stats are given below.
Full Name
Nicholas Richard Denis Compton
Born
June 26, 1983, Durban, Natal, South Africa
Age
40 years old
Nicknames
Compo, Ledge, Cheser
Batting Style
Right hand Bat
Bowling Style
Right arm Offbreak
Playing Role
Opening Batter
Height
6ft 2in
Education
Hilton College, SA, Harrow School, Durham University
Batting Stats
Test | ODI | T20I | IPL | |
---|---|---|---|---|
Mat | 16 | - | - | - |
Inn | 30 | - | - | - |
Runs | 775 | - | - | - |
Avg | 28.7 | - | - | - |
SR | 36.05 | - | - | - |
HS | 117 | - | - | - |
NO | 3 | - | - | - |
100s | 2 | - | - | - |
50s | 2 | - | - | - |
4s | 84 | - | - | - |
6s | 3 | - | - | - |
Bowling Stats
Test | ODI | T20I | IPL | |
---|---|---|---|---|
Mat | 16 | - | - | - |
Inn | - | - | - | - |
Balls | - | - | - | - |
Runs | - | - | - | - |
Wkt | - | - | - | - |
BBI | - | - | - | - |
BBM | - | - | - | - |
Eco | - | - | - | - |
Avg | - | - | - | - |
5W | - | - | - | - |
10W | - | - | - | - |
Teams he has played for:
- DCS Compton
- LH Compton
- RCD Compton
- PMD Compton
- BG Compton
- England
- England Lions
- Mashonaland Eagles
- Middlesex
- Somerset
Heres what CricBuzz says about him.
Having been born and raised in South Africa, he only moved to England (Harrow) as a teenager. While still in school, Compton joined Middlesex as an opening batsman in the Under 19 squad and impressed as a talented player and captain. He won the NBC Dennis Compton Award (named after his grandfather) awarded to the most promising Middlesex player owing to his affirming performances in the U19 and Second XI squad in 2001.
He went on to play for the England U19 squad in the ICC U-19 World Cup in 2002 featuring in five out of six matches that England played and he scored 133 runs. After a failed U19 Test debut against India, he had to wait until Norwich Union League in August 2002 to impress with a modest 86 not out against Lancashire. His success ensured him the NBC Denis Compton award for the second consecutive year.
He was out of team for most of 2003 season because of injury and during the next two years played equally less cricket. In 2006, however, he was on a roll with many consistent scores which included 6 centuries finishing with 1315 runs at an average of 47 at the end of that season. This feat earned him the NBC Dennis Compton award for the third time and paved way for an inclusion in the England A side touring Bangladesh in 2006-2007.
After 2006, his form suffered a slump as he failed repeatedly on the first-class circuit. His one day form however proved to be comparatively better when he hit a century in 2007 Friends Provident Trophy against Sussex. He bounced back in 2009 scoring 860 runs for Middlesex in the longer format of the game and was in sublime form in the one dayers scoring 694 runs at an average of 77.
2010 season saw his successful move to Somerset after being disappointed with the lack of opportunities at Middlesex. Since then, he prospered as a middle order batsman enjoying successful subsequent seasons. His first class dream run continued as he helped Somerset reach semi finals against all odds in the 2011 Champions League Twenty20 played in India.
He finished the 2012 season with 1,494 first-class runs and was subsequently rewarded with a place in the England Test squad touring India in 2012-2013. Operating as an opener, Compton along with in-form captain Alastair Cook featured in several crucial partnerships to play a key role in securing a historical series win over the hosts India in that series. He then was given a ticket to go to New Zealand for the following series and notched up his maiden Test hundred in the second Test at Wellington. However, poor returns from the home series against the same opposition a couple of months later saw him being left out of the side and continues to feature in the domestic games in the English county.
by Sonali Dhulap - March 2014
Heres what ESPNcricinfo says about him.
Grandson of the legendary Denis, Nick Compton had quite an act to emulate. He might not share his relation's ability to entertain with the bat - few ever have - but he made his own career as a strong-willed top-order batsman with a correct technique that was highly enough regarded to win England Test caps. As introspective as his grandfather appeared relaxed, he alternated between obsessive commitment and disillusionment when his England career faltered before entering what had become a predictable retirement at the end of 2018.
Selected to open the batting for England after a prolific domestic season in 2012, he didn't do too much wrong in nine Tests but England concluded Compton was not the man for the national side. His England career began in India in 2012. While his performances in a four-Test series in which England prevailed 2-1 were not a complete success, Compton's steady starts in spinning conditions left a feeling that he had potential to succeed. Just one half-century meant more was needed to cement his place in the side but he was kept on for the New Zealand tour and in the opening match in Dunedin made a second-innings century, a knock of immense determination. Another hundred in Wellington seemingly penned Compton into England's first-choice Test XI. But after a nervous time in the return series against the Black Caps, with much attention being placed on a strokeless innings at Headingley, Compton was dropped for the Ashes in part, at least, to accommodate Joe Root in an ill-fated experiment at the top of the order.
The attention placed on his supposedly inhibited approach made his return after two-and-a-half years, at 32, somewhat surprising and after a crisp and determined 85 in Durban in his comeback innings in the 2015 Christmas Test against South Africa, he failed to reach 50 in his other 12 knocks. The inevitability that he would be dropped once more after a dismal home Test series against Sri Lanka demotivated him and caused him to ask his county, Middlesex, for a leave of absence from the game. Middlesex spoke of a "challenging start to the 2016 season, both physically and mentally". There was talk of possible retirement, but he returned later in the season, although he played only a bit-part role in Middlesex's first Championship for 23 years.
Compton was raised in South Africa and honed an aptitude for sport, earning representative honours at tennis, football and hockey for Natal and holding down a single-figure golf handicap. He arrived in the UK as a teenager, attending Harrow School.
He played for England Under-19s in 2001-02 but took some time to break through into the Middlesex side. Three Championship matches in 2004 brought little return but when his chance finally came again at the start of 2006 he made the most of it. He kicked off with a maiden hundred in the first game against Oxford University - sharing a 192 opening stand with another famous grandson, Ben Hutton - and then hit a hundred against Kent in the first Championship match of the summer.
But he grew increasingly frustrated with what he perceived as a lack of opportunities and moved to Somerset ahead of the 2010 season. It was a productive decision and he became a consistent scorer in a strong top order but it was in 2012 that he really caught the attention, when he came within a whisker of scoring 1,000 runs before the end of May. He was denied by the weather at New Road but in a season ruined by rain he finished with 1,494 at 99.60. It was enough to earn him a call-up for England's tour to India, replacing the retired Andrew Strauss as opener despite batting at No. 3 for Somerset.
But most of 2013 and 2014 were also spent with Somerset. He carried on where he left off with 1,260 first-class runs at 45.00 and 1,034 at 43.08 respectively. Unfortunately for Compton, it seems the England selectors were no longer interested; a suspicion that was underlined when he was omitted from the Lions tour to South Africa that winter.
Struggling for equilibrium in the aftermath of the rejection, was allowed to leave Somerset with two years remaining of his contract in November 2014 and announced he would take a break from cricket to reassess his options and his future. He chose to continue his career at Middlesex, and duly passed 1,000 runs, albeit with an average below 40, and with England were still struggling to find support for Alastair Cook at the top of the order won another opportunity that few imagined he would get, taking his tally to 16 Test caps.
ESPNcricinfo staff