Full Name

Ben William Sanderson

Born

January 03, 1989, Sheffield, Yorkshire

Age

36y 215d

Batting Style

Right hand Bat

Bowling Style

Right arm Medium fast

Playing Role

Bowler

Ben Sanderson enjoyed the finest season of his career in 2018, at 29, when he took 60 Championship wickets for Northants at only 16.70, one of the few bright spots in a largely depressing season. It was further evidence that a player who was almost lost to the game had turned himself into one of the most reliable performers on the county circuit.

Sanderson played three games for Yorkshire as a seam bowler before he was released in 2011. He joined the Minor County, Shropshire, and became involved with the family business before making a comeback to county cricket four years later. Playing club cricket in up-country Queensland, where he was working on a farm to keep fit, he then won a trial with Northants.

That return worked out well in 2016 in a Championship season that went from strength to strength, taking 55 second division wickets at 21 apiece. A career-best 7-22 against Glamorgan on an uneven pitch in Swansea ("the food is not great here but I had a protein shake at lunch and that seemed to work") won him a new three-year contract and he bettered it the following month with 8-73 against Gloucestershire as Northants finished the season with victory.
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Ben Sanderson Career Stats

Bowling

FormatMatInnsBallsRunsWktsBBIBBMAveEconSR4w5w10w
FC1141922097894494188/7310/5522.602.7050.120223
List A534921711909673/173/1728.495.2732.4000
T20s102101204629241266/86/823.208.5716.2410

Batting & Fielding

FormatMatInnsNORunsHSAveBFSR100s50s4s6sCtSt
FC1141564211546510.12226450.97011708140
List A53278169318.8927361.900082130
T20s1023016120278.5713688.230066220

Ben Sanderson T20 Stats

Bowling

TournamentTeamsMatInnsBallsRunsWktsBBIBBMAveEconSR4w5w10w
Vitality Blast2 teams10210120462924126 6/8 6/823.208.5716.2410

Batting & Fielding

TournamentTeamsMatInnsNORunsHSAveBFSR100s50s4s6sCtSt
Vitality Blast2 teams1023016120278.5713688.230066220

Recent Matches of Ben Sanderson

MatchBatBowlDateGroundFormat
Northants vs Middlesex0 & 122/7522-Jul-2025NorthwoodFC
Northants vs Durham--0/2318-Jul-2025Chester-le-StreetT20
Northants vs Bears--0/3713-Jul-2025BirminghamT20
Northants vs Derbyshire--0/3611-Jul-2025NorthamptonT20
Northants vs Leics11*0/2610-Jul-2025LeicesterT20

Photos of Ben Sanderson

Ben Sanderson finished the match with a hat-trick
Ben Sanderson led Northamptonshire's charge with three wickets
Ben Sanderson trapped Jos Buttler for a duck
Ben Sanderson celebrates an early breakthrough
Ben Sanderson reflects on a cold April day
Ben Sanderson celebrates the wicket of Pieter Malan as Middlesex's batting fails again