Chris Dent

England

Full name Christopher David James Dent

Born January 20, 1991, Bristol

Current age 28 years 127 days

Major teams England Under-19s, Gloucestershire, Gloucestershire 2nd XI

Batting style Left-hand bat

Fielding position Occasional wicketkeeper

Batting and fielding averages

	Mat	Inns	NO	Runs	HS	Ave	BF	SR	100	50	4s	6s	Ct
First-class	132	237	22	7994	268	37.18	15477	51.65	14	47	1087	40	151
List A	69	64	5	1904	151*	32.27	2061	92.38	3	6	226	25	24
T20s	49	43	7	725	63*	20.13	623	116.37	0	3	72	18	17

Bowling averages

	Mat	Inns	Balls	Runs	Wkts	BBI	BBM	Ave	Econ	SR	4w
First-class	132	41	1206	795	8	2/21	2/21	99.37	3.95	150.7	0
List A	69	17	438	412	12	4/43	4/43	34.33	5.64	36.5	1
T20s	49	12	120	168	5	1/4	1/4	33.60	8.40	24.0	0

Career statistics

First-class debut	Gloucestershire v Northamptonshire at Bristol, Apr 15-17, 2010 scorecard
Last First-class	Durham v Gloucestershire at Chester-le-Street, May 20-22, 2019 scorecard
List A debut	Nottinghamshire v Gloucestershire at Nottingham, Sep 27, 2009 scorecard
Last List A	Essex v Gloucestershire at Chelmsford, May 7, 2019 scorecard
T20s debut	Gloucestershire v Essex at Bristol, Jun 23, 2010 scorecard
Last T20s	Gloucestershire v Essex at Cheltenham, Jul 17, 2016 scorecard

Recent matches

Bat & Bowl	Team	Opposition	Ground	Match Date	Scorecard
23, 29	Gloucs	v Durham	Chester-le-Street	20 May 2019	FC
14, 1	Gloucs	v Glamorgan	Newport	14 May 2019	FC
89	Gloucs	v Essex	Chelmsford	7 May 2019	LA
46	Gloucs	v Sussex	Eastbourne	5 May 2019	LA
30	Gloucs	v Glamorgan	Bristol	30 Apr 2019	LA
1	Gloucs	v Somerset	Bristol	28 Apr 2019	LA
16	Gloucs	v Hampshire	Southampton	26 Apr 2019	LA
41	Gloucs	v Kent	Bristol	23 Apr 2019	LA
47	Gloucs	v Middlesex	Lord's	21 Apr 2019	LA
75	Gloucs	v Surrey	Bristol	17 Apr 2019	LA

Profile

Chris Dent is a highly-talented left-handed top order batsman who was given a place in the Gloucestershire first XI while still a teenager: By the time he was 27, he was such a fixture that he was already Gloucestershire's longest-serving player. Captaincy of the Championship side was a fitting development.

Bristol-born, Dent's professional career got underway in August 2009, when he signed for his home county and made his one-day debut before the season was out. He represented England Under-19s in the World Cup in New Zealand in January 2010, scoring 96 runs at 32.00 as England lost to West Indies in the quarter-final. That summer he made his first-class debut against Northamptonshire at Bristol.

Despite a modest return of 725 runs, Dent played every Championship game in 2010 and in 2011 was promoted to open the batting, where he returned a more fruitful 649 runs at 34.15, including a maiden first-class century, exactly 100, against Surrey at Cheltenham. His 2012 was hampered by a broken little finger - the same digit he was forced to have surgery on the season before - but a year later finally saw him deliver on his promise and he signed a contract extension to 2016. His 2014 began with a double century against Cardiff MCCU but it was the falsest of dawns as just 436 runs in 22 Championship innings followed.

He produced a breakthrough season in 2013 with 1128 first-class runs at 45.12 and a maiden List A century, an unbeaten 151 at Cardiff. , but a year later endured a miserable summer of only 436 runs in 22 innings. He left it late to confirm his potential in 2015, following up his part in Gloucestershire's Royal London Cup win with a late-season double century - 268 against Glamorgan at Bristol - which squeezed him past 1,000 Championship runs. Only four batsmen - Will Spearman, WG Grace, Wally Hammond and Gilbert Jessop - had scored more runs in an innings, for Gloucestershire.

His precocity had been translated into sizeable contributions across all formats by 2016, leading his coach, Richard Dawson, to suggest that with more self-belief he had the potential to join others such as Keaton Jennings and Nick Browne, in the list at that time of left-handers of England potential.

Dent took over the four-day captaincy in 2018 and marked it by becoming Gloucestershire's heaviest run-maker in the Championship, winning the county's Batsman of the Year award.

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Chris Dent

England

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