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Mason Crane

England

Full name Mason Sidney Crane

Born February 18, 1997, Shoreham-by-Sea, Sussex

Current age 21 years 66 days

Major teams England, England Lions, England Under-19s, Hampshire, Hampshire 2nd XI, Hampshire Cricket Academy, Hampshire Under-16s, Hampshire Under-17s

Playing role Bowler

Batting style Right-hand bat

Bowling style Legbreak

Explore Mason Crane's performance

Batting and fielding averages

	Mat	Inns	NO	Runs	HS	Ave	BF	SR	100	50	4s	6s	Ct
Tests	1	2	0	6	4	3.00	11	54.54	0	0	0	0	0
T20Is	2	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	0
First-class	32	45	17	321	29	11.46	928	34.59	0	0	30	1	9
List A	22	9	5	38	16*	9.50	58	65.51	0	0	2	0	9
T20s	20	5	4	11	3*	11.00	21	52.38	0	0	0	0	4

Bowling averages

	Mat	Inns	Balls	Runs	Wkts	BBI	BBM	Ave	Econ	SR	4w	5w
Tests	1	1	288	193	1	1/193	1/193	193.00	4.02	288.0	0	0
T20Is	2	2	48	62	1	1/38	1/38	62.00	7.75	48.0	0	0
First-class	32	51	5563	3607	77	5/35	6/89	46.84	3.89	72.2	2	2
List A	22	22	1093	1126	38	4/30	4/30	29.63	6.18	28.7	3	0
T20s	20	20	420	512	22	3/15	3/15	23.27	7.31	19.0	0	0

Career statistics

Only Test	Australia v England at Sydney, Jan 4-8, 2018 scorecard
Test statistics
T20I debut	England v South Africa at Southampton, Jun 21, 2017 scorecard
Last T20I	England v South Africa at Cardiff, Jun 25, 2017 scorecard
T20I statistics
First-class debut	Hampshire v Durham at Southampton, Jul 19-22, 2015 scorecard
Last First-class	West Indies A v England Lions at Kingston, Feb 18-20, 2018 scorecard
List A debut	Hampshire v Sussex at Southampton, Jul 27, 2015 scorecard
Last List A	Surrey v Hampshire at The Oval, May 14, 2017 scorecard
T20s debut	Hampshire v Surrey at Southampton, Jul 10, 2015 scorecard
Last T20s	Hampshire v Nottinghamshire at Birmingham, Sep 2, 2017 scorecard

Recent matches

Bat & Bowl	Team	Opposition	Ground	Match Date	Scorecard
0/0	England	v NZ XI	Hamilton	14 Mar 2018	Other
12, 0/59, 25*	Eng Lions	v W. Indies A	Kingston	18 Feb 2018	FC
1, 0/43, 0, 1/13	Eng Lions	v W. Indies A	Florence Hall	11 Feb 2018	FC
0/57, 0/24	Eng Lions	v Jamaica XI	Kingston	5 Feb 2018	Other
4, 1/193, 2	England	v Australia	Sydney	4 Jan 2018	Test # 2291
16, 0/45, 1/69	England XI	v CA XI	Perth	9 Dec 2017	Other
0/89, 25*, 2/97	England	v CA XI	Townsville	15 Nov 2017	FC
6*, 3/78, 18, 0/27	England	v CA XI	Adelaide	8 Nov 2017	FC
2/75	England	v WA XI	Perth	4 Nov 2017	Other
0/39, 5*, 0/13	Hampshire	v Warwickshire	Birmingham	25 Sep 2017	FC

Profile

As an eight-year-old only child watching the 2005 Ashes series, Mason Crane was inspired by the bewitching displays of Shane Warne. From that moment he wanted to be a legspinner. Twelve years later he made his England debut in Twenty20 cricket and to cap the summer, at 21, he was chosen for England's Ashes tour party.

Life had not always been that rewarding. When his home county, Sussex, left him out of their Under-14 squad he was bereft - for many a lad that would be the end of the story - but he was fortunate enough to be a pupil at Lancing College whose cricket master, Raj Maru, was a former Hampshire left-arm spinner and involved with the county academy. With the help of Maru and the Hampshire academy spin coach, Darren Flint, he soon won England call-ups at England U-17 and U-19 level.

Crane made his Hampshire 1st XI debut against Surrey at the Ageas Bowl and took 2 for 35 as he dismissed Kumar Sangakkara - quite a first wicket - with a rank full toss and Vikram Solanki, stumped in more orthodox fashion. The last of Flint's 34 first-class wickets for Hampshire had been Solanki, a neat coincidence. A few weeks later, against Warwickshire at the Ageas Bowl, Crane became the youngest Hampshire player to take a five-wicket haul in the Championship.

Crane's second season was harder going, although only Ryan McLaren took more than his 31 Championship wickets. He was hardly used in the T20 Blast but had long, career-forming bowls in the Royal London Cup.

A winter was planned with the former Australia legspinner Stuart MacGill in Sydney. Back-to-back seven wickets hauls for Gordon CC in Australia earned him a call-up to the New South Wales side in the Sheffield Shield, making him the first overseas player since Imran Khan in 1984/85 to play State cricket in Australia and his reputation was further enhanced when he impressed in the 2017 North vs South series in the UAE.

England's growing interest was apparent when the national selector, James Whitaker, expressed frustration over Crane's omission from a Hampshire Championship side early in 2017 (he was to play only half the 14 matches and 16 wickets at 44.69 was nothing to write home about), but like several English legspinners he was making a home for himself in Twenty20 an, ahead of an excellent Blast season, England gave him his first two T20Is the first on his home ground against South Africa. His call up to the Ashes tour party that winter was less justified by statistics.
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Mason Crane

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