tom westley Profile - ICC Profile, Age, Career Info & Stats.
tom westley is a cricketer(sportsman) from England. His ICC profile, age, career info & stats are given below.
Full Name
Thomas Westley
Born
March 13, 1989, Cambridge
Age
34 years old
Batting Style
Right hand Bat
Bowling Style
Right arm Offbreak
Playing Role
Top order Batter
Height
6ft 2in
Batting Stats
Test | ODI | T20I | IPL | |
---|---|---|---|---|
Mat | 5 | - | - | - |
Inn | 9 | - | - | - |
Runs | 193 | - | - | - |
Avg | 24.12 | - | - | - |
SR | 42.6 | - | - | - |
HS | 59 | - | - | - |
NO | 1 | - | - | - |
100s | 0 | - | - | - |
50s | 1 | - | - | - |
4s | 33 | - | - | - |
6s | 0 | - | - | - |
Bowling Stats
Test | ODI | T20I | IPL | |
---|---|---|---|---|
Mat | 5 | - | - | - |
Inn | 1 | - | - | - |
Balls | 24 | - | - | - |
Runs | 12 | - | - | - |
Wkt | 0 | - | - | - |
BBI | 12 / 0 | - | - | - |
BBM | 12 / 0 | - | - | - |
Eco | 3.0 | - | - | - |
Avg | 0.0 | - | - | - |
5W | 0 | - | - | - |
10W | 0 | - | - | - |
Teams he has played for:
- Cambridgeshire
- England A
- England Under-19s
- Essex
- Essex 2nd XI
- Marylebone Cricket Club
Heres what CricBuzz says about him.
Westley has said on numerous occasions that he has tried to learn from his illustrious Essex teammate and the highest run-getter for England in Tests, Alastair Cook. Westley is known for his penchant to play shots through the on-side. In a County game against Worcestershire in May 2016, Daryl Mitchell, the opposition's captain, had tried to plug his scoring areas by stationing no less than five fielders in front of square on the leg-side and inside the circle. Westley, in an interview later, had said: \\"I still got it through twice,\\" in a light-hearted tone.
Westley had crunched five hundreds for Essex last season (2016) and Cook had pushed for his case for national selection. However, the selectors were perhaps apprehensive of taking into consideration Division 2 runs. With Essex getting promoted to Division 1 for the 2017 season, he had a chance to showcase his skills. The promising cricketer delivered by notching up two hundreds in the Championship and crunched a century for England Lions against South Africa in a tour game, and earned a Test call-up. He had also compiled a fine hundred against the touring Australians in 2015.
England's top-order wobbles meant that Westley was in line for international honours and the stage duly arrived after he was called-up mid-way through England's home series against South Africa. Having scored a century against the visitors in a practice match, he impressed on his debut at The Oval, making a half-century in just his second knock.His calmness under pressure and his ability to score tough runs marks him out from the rest of the contenders and Westley should get a reasonable run in England's top-order.
Heres what ESPNcricinfo says about him.
A graceful batter with, at his best, an enchanting leg-side game, Tom Westley broke into the England Test side more than a decade after his Essex debut. His technique, with an on drive to the fore, drew comparisons with John Crawley and a half-century on debut against South Africa at the Oval encouraged optimism that, at 28, his long apprenticeship on the county circuit would finally bear fruit. His experience against West Indies, though, proved less rewarding and a run of five single-figure scores in his last six innings led him to be omitted from England's Ashes tour party.
Westley had served notice of his talent in 2015, a century against the Australian tourists at Chelmsford ahead of the Ashes series enough to prompt a congratulatory text from Alastair Cook. Three more hundreds followed in Essex's promotion the following summer, as this modest and articulate Durham graduate passed 1000 runs for the first time. He received a few honourable mentions in despatches, but it took performances in Division One - as well as hundred against South Africa for the Lions - to properly catch the attention of the England selectors. As Essex's status grew in their title-winning year, so too a Test debut followed for Westley.
The day that he was excluded from the Ashes party happened to be the day that Essex were presented with the Championship trophy. It felt like a neat symbol of where his immediate future lay and that proved to be the case; Westley continued to be a key cog at Chelmsford, playing a full part in Essex's 2019 Championship and T20 double. He took over the captaincy the following summer, and duly led Essex to another piece of silverware in a pandemic-wrecked season as they lifted the Bob Willis Trophy.
Westley, first spotted by Keith Fletcher, the Essex guru, initially emerged as a middle-order batsman after joining the Essex Academy as a 14-year-old in 2003. He made his first-team debut in a one-day match against the touring Sri Lankans in June 2006, travelling to Perth for three weeks on a Graham Gooch Scholarship that December and following that up with a trip to Mumbai as part of a five-strong Academy contingent in February 2007. He impressed enough there and in the indoor nets upon his return to be asked to join up with the first team on their pre-season tour to Dubai and Abu Dhabi.
It was expected that Westley's first-team chances would increase with the retirements of Andy Flower and Ronnie Irani, and Cook and Ravi Bopara's increasing England commitments, but he hadn't really established himself before England Under-19s came calling, first for Pakistan U19s' visit in August 2007 and then for a tour of Sri Lanka and the U19 World Cup that followed in February 2008. Westley was named captain of the Under-19 side for New Zealand's tour that summer, and from 2009 juggled sporadic Essex appearances with his studies at Durham University. A natural leader, he was also put in charge of the Durham MCCU side but returned to Essex to play a part in the County Championship promotion push by hitting a maiden first-class century in a crucial match at Derby in 2009.
His progress thereafter was steady rather than spectacular and it wasn't until 2012 that, for the first time, he played in every Championship game. His move up the order to open with Jaik Mickleburgh provided Essex with some solidity, after several combinations were tried, and included hitting his highest first-class score of 185 against Glamorgan. A broken finger sustained in the Ashes warm-up match against England curtailed his 2013 but the following season saw an extra dimension added to his limited-overs game.
He was first back on the national selectors' radar in late 2014, when, aged 25, he joined the England Performance Programme's batting and spin camp in Sri Lanka, staying on afterwards with the club side Bloomfield. That followed a breakthrough year in white-ball cricket, in which he averaged 57.33 in the Royal London Cup and 44.83 in T20, with three centuries across the formats.
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