Jake Ball

England

Full name Jacob Timothy Ball

Born March 14, 1991, Mansfield, Nottinghamshire

Current age 28 years 67 days

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

Playing role Bowler

Batting style Right-hand bat

Bowling style Right-arm fast-medium

Relation Uncle - BN French, Brother - JJ Ball

Batting and fielding averages

	Mat	Inns	NO	Runs	HS	Ave	BF	SR	100	50	4s	6s	Ct
Tests	4	8	0	67	31	8.37	125	53.60	0	0	8	1	1
ODIs	18	6	2	38	28	9.50	49	77.55	0	0	6	0	5
T20Is	2	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	1
First-class	55	83	15	920	49*	13.52	1203	76.47	0	0	128	23	7
List A	96	38	15	198	28	8.60	200	99.00	0	0	22	5	19
T20s	60	14	9	33	8*	6.60	36	91.66	0	0	2	2	15

Bowling averages

	Mat	Inns	Balls	Runs	Wkts	BBI	BBM	Ave	Econ	SR	4w	5w
Tests	4	6	612	343	3	1/47	1/47	114.33	3.36	204.0	0	0
ODIs	18	18	947	980	21	5/51	5/51	46.66	6.20	45.0	0	1
T20Is	2	2	42	83	2	1/39	1/39	41.50	11.85	21.0	0	0
First-class	55	92	8288	4818	180	6/49	9/57	26.76	3.48	46.0	8	6
List A	96	91	4060	3984	118	5/51	5/51	33.76	5.88	34.4	4	1
T20s	60	58	1190	1722	66	3/27	3/27	26.09	8.68	18.0	0	0

Career statistics

Test debut	England v Pakistan at Lord's, Jul 14-17, 2016 scorecard
Last Test	Australia v England at Brisbane, Nov 23-27, 2017 scorecard
Test statistics
ODI debut	Bangladesh v England at Dhaka, Oct 7, 2016 scorecard
Last ODI	England v Australia at Manchester, Jun 24, 2018 scorecard
ODI statistics
T20I debut	England v India at Cardiff, Jul 6, 2018 scorecard
Last T20I	England v India at Bristol, Jul 8, 2018 scorecard
T20I statistics
First-class debut	Marylebone Cricket Club v Nottinghamshire at Abu Dhabi, Mar 27-29, 2011 scorecard
Last First-class	Nottinghamshire v Somerset at Nottingham, Apr 11-13, 2019 scorecard
List A debut	Sussex v Nottinghamshire at Hove, Sep 7, 2009 scorecard
Last List A	Nottinghamshire v Somerset at Nottingham, May 12, 2019 scorecard
T20s debut	Lancashire v Nottinghamshire at Manchester, Jul 10, 2011 scorecard
Last T20s	Nottinghamshire v Derbyshire at Nottingham, Aug 2, 2018 scorecard

Recent matches

Bat & Bowl	Team	Opposition	Ground	Match Date	Scorecard
4/62, 0	Notts	v Somerset	Nottingham	12 May 2019	LA
2/54, 0*	Notts	v Northants	Northampton	6 May 2019	LA
-	Notts	v Durham	Grantham	3 May 2019	LA
14, 0/30	Notts	v Worcs	Worcester	1 May 2019	LA
3/32	Notts	v Yorkshire	Nottingham	28 Apr 2019	LA
1/54	Notts	v Leics	Nottingham	26 Apr 2019	LA
2/55	Notts	v Derbyshire	Derby	21 Apr 2019	LA
2/71	Notts	v Lancashire	Nottingham	19 Apr 2019	LA
8, 1/122, 0	Notts	v Somerset	Nottingham	11 Apr 2019	FC
15*, 1/67, 2/73	Notts	v Yorkshire	Nottingham	5 Apr 2019	FC

Profile

Jake Ball, a powerfully-built pace bowler who had made his mark at Nottinghamshire primarily in white-ball cricket, made his England debut in Tests and ODIs during the 2016 season. His ODI debut was the more spectacular as he became the first England bowler to take five wickets on a one-day international debut. The fact it came in challenging conditions in Dhaka made it even more meritorious.

His Test debut had come earlier that summer, against Pakistan at Lord's, and with 54 first-class wickets at 23 to his name he was selected for close-season duties, too, on winter tours of Bangladesh and India. There was to be no repeat of his startling ODI introduction. Indeed, the day after he was chosen for England's 2017-18 Ashes tour party, he went for 94 in an ODI against West Indies in Southampton (England's third most expensive analysis at the time), only for England to ease his pain by waltzing to a 289 target with nine wickets and 12 overs to spare.

The nephew of Bruce French, the former Nottinghamshire and England wicket-keeper, Ball is a former England Under-19 international. He made his Nottinghamshire debut at the end of the 2009 season, against Sussex in a Pro40 match at Hove. Bowling right-arm medium-pace, he claimed Rory Hamilton-Brown as his first senior wicket but when he batted he was out first ball as Dwayne Smith completed a hat-trick.

He played in two Under-19 Test matches in 2010, taking 5 for 64 in the second innings against Sri Lanka at Scarborough, to set up an England win. He made his first class debut for Nottinghamshire in the Champion County v MCC match in Abu Dhabi in March 2011, taking 3 for 72 in the second innings. Most of his county cricket so far has been in the one-day, in which he impressed enough in 2012 to be named Nottinghamshire's Young Player of the Year and be awarded a one-year contract extension.

Ball's biggest impact in the early part of his Nottinghamshire career came in the semifinal of the YB40 in 2013 when he took 4 for 25, his best figures in senior cricket, as Somerset were beaten by some distance. Ball missed the final because of a back injury but could at least watch with satisfaction from afar as Notts brushed aside Glamorgan to claim their fist piece of one-day silverware for more than 20 years.

After his 2014 season was disrupted by a broken foot his continued success in white-ball cricket in 2015 earned him recognition. His reputation as a fast bowler of promise was cemented when he was one of a group of young fast bowlers called up for an England Development Programme fast bowling camp and given a place on an England Lions tour of Pakistan. His breakthrough season had brought 39 Championship wickets, allied to a late-order penchant for six hitting.
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Jake Ball

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