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Josh Cobb

England

Full name Joshua James Cobb

Born August 17, 1990, Leicester

Current age 28 years 279 days

Major teams Central Districts, Dhaka Gladiators, England Under-19s, Leicestershire, Leicestershire 2nd XI, Prime Doleshwar Sporting Club

Batting style Right-hand bat

Bowling style Right-arm offbreak

Relation Father - RA Cobb

Batting and fielding averages

	Mat	Inns	NO	Runs	HS	Ave	BF	SR	100	50	4s	6s	Ct
First-class	123	210	22	4940	148*	26.27	9962	49.58	4	28	660	60	52
List A	98	93	7	3281	146*	38.15	3573	91.82	7	21	357	77	29
T20s	136	129	14	2911	103	25.31	2175	133.83	1	17	257	128	64

Bowling averages

	Mat	Inns	Balls	Runs	Wkts	BBI	BBM	Ave	Econ	SR	4w
First-class	123	92	2698	1599	18	2/11	2/11	88.83	3.55	149.8	0
List A	98	61	1758	1712	35	3/34	3/34	48.91	5.84	50.2	0
T20s	136	90	1191	1649	54	4/22	4/22	30.53	8.30	22.0	1

Career statistics

First-class debut	Leicestershire v Northamptonshire at Leicester, Sep 5-8, 2007 scorecard
Last First-class	Lancashire v Northamptonshire at Manchester, May 14-17, 2019 scorecard
List A debut	Glamorgan v Leicestershire at Colwyn Bay, Aug 10, 2008 scorecard
Last List A	Northamptonshire v Nottinghamshire at Northampton, May 6, 2019 scorecard
T20s debut	Leicestershire v Derbyshire at Leicester, Jun 27, 2008 scorecard
Last T20s	Leicestershire v Northamptonshire at Leicester, Aug 17, 2018 scorecard

Recent matches

Bat & Bowl	Team	Opposition	Ground	Match Date	Scorecard
0, 0/11, 30, 0/5	Northants	v Lancashire	Manchester	14 May 2019	FC
63, 1/61	Northants	v Notts	Northampton	6 May 2019	LA
43, 0/8	Northants	v Leics	Leicester	4 May 2019	LA
58	Northants	v Yorkshire	Northampton	1 May 2019	LA
146*	Northants	v Pakistan	Northampton	29 Apr 2019	LA
2/38, 44	Northants	v Worcs	Northampton	26 Apr 2019	LA
4, 0/8	Northants	v Lancashire	Manchester	24 Apr 2019	LA
0	Northants	v Warwickshire	Northampton	21 Apr 2019	LA
3	Northants	v Derbyshire	Derby	19 Apr 2019	LA
12	Northants	v Durham	Chester-le-Street	17 Apr 2019	LA

Profile

Josh Cobb has built his reputation primarily as a dangerous T20 batsman and occasional offspinner. Never was that more apparent than in the 2016 NatWest Blast final when his audacious 80 took Northants to a final-over victory against Durham. A member of Leicestershire's winning team in 2011, Cobb top-edged Chris Rushworth to the keeper as he tried to win the match with a six. He also held a stunning one-handed catch at cover to dismiss Keaton Jennings, whose 88 had become the highest score in Finals Day history.

Cobb was a quick developer, making his first-class debut for Leicestershire aged just 17 and became the county's youngest century-maker when he made an unbeaten 148 against Middlesex at Lord's in 2008. He was not a regular member of the four-day side when he put in his matchwinning Twenty20 Finals Day performance but corrected that in 2012, scoring 752 first-class runs at 34.18 and recording his second century against Derbyshire at Derby in April.

His father, Russell, played at Leicestershire during the 1980s and Josh attended Oakham School, whose other cricketing graduates include current England players Stuart Broad and James Taylor and the former England women's captain, Lucy Pearson.

Cobb is an aggressive top-order batsman and occasional offspinner who hit the headlines with a memorable man-of-the-match performance in the FLt20 Final in 2011. He bashed a 10-ball 18 with the bat and took four wickets to give Leicestershire an unlikely victory over Somerset.

He cemented his place at No 5 in Leicestershire's four-day side in 2012. He took over the Leicestershire captaincy in CB40 during 2012 and also twice led the team in the Championship. He was named the county's one-day and T20 captain in 2013 as well as becoming vice-captain to Sarwan in four-day cricket.

He started the 2013 YB40 campaign in exceptional fashion, scoring a century in each of the first three matches in leading the team to victories. In all, he amassed 578 runs at an impressive average of 52.54 with a strike rate of almost 114. Against Somerset, he shared a record-breaking 235 with opening partner Greg Smith on a fantastic afternoon of cricket.

Cobb was part of an exodus from the Leicestershire squad that finished bottom of the Championship second division in 2014 without winning a match for the second successive season. Cobb, Leicestershire's one-day captain, joined Northants after scoring 3,133 first-class runs for his hometown club and also skippering them in the Championship in the absence of Ramnaresh Sarwan.

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Josh Cobb

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