Matches (18)
Sri Lanka vs Australia (1)
SA20 (1)
Tri-Nation (1)
Zimbabwe vs Ireland (1)
WCL 2 (1)
Sheffield Shield (3)
Ranji Trophy (4)
WI 4-Day (4)
IND vs ENG (1)
ILT20 (1)

Full Name

Daniel James Bell-Drummond

Born

August 04, 1993, Lewisham, London

Age

31y 189d

Batting Style

Right hand Bat

Bowling Style

Right arm Medium fast

Playing Role

Opening Batter

Education

Millfield School

Top-order batter Daniel Bell-Drummond was only 17 when he signed a three-year professional contract with Kent in 2011 and he made his first-class debut later that summer, impressing with a fluent 80 from 103 balls against Loughborough MCCU.

He was widely regarded as one of the most exciting young batters in the UK, and his Kent captain Rob Key declared he had the talent to play 100 Tests. Much was expected of Bell-Drummond at the Under-19 World Cup in Australia in August 2012 but he made four single-figure scores in six matches, as England finished a disappointing fifth. Kent showed faith in him, however, and he secured the No. 3 slot in their county side in 2013, scoring 466 runs. He was also entrusted with an opening role in T20 matches. Bell-Drummond's maiden Championship hundred, a patient affair against Derbyshire in Canterbury, was one of two he made in 2014, when he topped Kent's Championship averages, although he fell just short of 1000 runs.

He began to justify Key's optimism when, at 21, he thrilled with a 92-ball hundred against Australia in an Ashes warm-up game in 2015, putting a first-innings duck against Mitchell Johnson behind him and achieving three figures with successive sixes off the legspin of Fawad Alam. His red-ball cricket remained inconsistent, but by the end of the season, Bell-Drummond got a call-up to the England Lions limited-overs squad.

In 2016 he made 171 not out in a record List A partnership of 367 with Ben Duckett for Lions against Sri Lanka A at his home ground. Later that year he added a 200-run stand with Tom Alsop in a 50-over game for Lions in Colombo. In 2017, he had another record-breaking partnership, this time in T20, when he put on 207 with Joe Denly against Essex in Chelmsford, but though Kent earned promotion, the season was a personal disappointment as he made only one fifty in 13 matches.

A couple of low-scoring years followed his Lions exploits, leaving Bell-Drummond unsold at the Hundred draft in 2019. He used some time in grade cricket and the Covid pandemic to work on his T20 power-hitting, and was the leading run-scorer in the T20 Blast in 2020 and third-highest when Kent won the title the next season.

Daniel Bell-Drummond Career Stats

Batting & Fielding

FormatMatInnsNORunsHSAveBFSR100s50s4s6sCtSt
FC163284268771300*33.991703751.481842117324670
List A949383771171*44.36456682.5872538424330
T20s166164114722112*30.863456136.63237488116530

Bowling

FormatMatInnsBallsRunsWktsBBIBBMAveEconSR4w5w10w
FC163421352745253/373/3729.803.3054.0000
List A94515512152/222/2224.204.6831.0000
T20s1661211119152/192/1938.2010.3222.2000

Daniel Bell-Drummond T20 Stats

Batting & Fielding

TournamentTeamsMatInnsNORunsHSAveBFSR100s50s4s6sCtSt
The Hundred Men's Competition2 teams101001624616.20132122.720015420
Vitality BlastKENT14013994127112*31.742984138.3023343396460
LPLCLS7601517025.16128117.960113630
BPLRR110000.0020.00000000

Bowling

TournamentTeamsMatInnsBallsRunsWktsBBIBBMAveEconSR4w5w10w
The Hundred Men's Competition2 teams10------------
Vitality BlastKENT14010931655 2/19 2/1933.0010.6418.6000
LPLCLS7------------
BPLRR1------------

Recent Matches of Daniel Bell-Drummond

MatchBatDateGroundFormat
Kent vs Notts28 & 2117-Sep-2024CanterburyFC
Kent vs Hampshire10 & 2309-Sep-2024CanterburyFC
Kent vs Warwickshire9 & 7829-Aug-2024BirminghamFC
Kent vs Worcs0 & 522-Aug-2024WorcesterFC
Spirit vs Phoenix627-Jul-2024Lord'sT20

Photos of Daniel Bell-Drummond

Daniel Bell-Drummond top-scored with 76 from 52 balls
Daniel Bell-Drummond is in his first season as Kent club captain
Daniel Bell-Drummond on his way to an elegant 70
Daniel Bell-Drummond made a half-century
Daniel Bell-Drummond brought up his maiden triple-hundred
Daniel Bell-Drummond hit a blistering hundred