Matt Parkinson

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Matt Parkinson
INTL CAREER: 2019 - 2022
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Full Name

Matthew William Parkinson

Born

October 24, 1996, Bolton, Lancashire

Age

28y 277d

Batting Style

Right hand Bat

Bowling Style

Legbreak

Playing Role

Bowler

Education

Bolton School

RELATIONS

(twin brother)

A chirpy legspinner from Bolton outside of Manchester, Matt Parkinson bowls slowly and tosses the ball up above the eyeline, relying on prodigious natural turn and drift rather than pace and variations to take his wickets.

Parkinson was the most prolific white-ball wicket-taker in England for two seasons, earned a national-team call-up for the 2019-20 tour of New Zealand, where he made his T20I debut, taking five wickets in six overs across two games, and played his first Test at Lord's in the summer of 2022 against the same team after Jack Leach went down with a concussion. He then struggled against India in a pair of T20Is and slipped down the pecking order as the year wore on. He spent the 2022-23 winter at home, working on his action, then travelled to Zimbabwe to play first-class and T20 cricket for Mashonaland Eagles.

Parkinson became the youngest Lancashire player to take five wickets on debut, in 2016 as a 19-year-old, but it was in white-ball cricket that he grew to prominence. He won an ECB overseas placement with Gordon, the New South Wales club side, for 2016-17, and spent time working with Stuart MacGill while in Australia.

England Lions recognition soon followed, and he was the leading spinner in both limited-overs competitions in 2018. He took 21 Blast wickets in 2019, sending Lancashire through to the quarter-finals, and while Championship opportunities were limited, he impressed enough to earn an England call-up for the New Zealand series. The tour to South Africa that followed was less successful, where his (lack of) pace came under scrutiny, and he was leapfrogged by Dom Bess in the Test reckoning.

After an ankle injury sidelined him in 2020, he carried drinks through the subcontinent tour in early 2021. In the first month of the Championship season later in the year, he bowled a ball-of-the-century contender that pitched outside leg and pegged back Adam Rossington's off stump in a match against Northamptonshire.

Matt Parkinson Career Stats

Bowling

FormatMatInnsBallsRunsWktsBBIBBMAveEconSR4w5w10w
Tests11934711/471/4747.003.0393.0000
ODIs5520820352/282/2840.605.8541.6000
T20Is6612019874/474/4728.289.9017.1100
FC731121353572482307/12610/16531.513.2158.81081
List A454422081952765/515/5125.685.3029.0520
T20s127125247532161675/235/2319.257.7914.8710

Batting & Fielding

FormatMatInnsNORunsHSAveBFSR100s50s4s6sCtSt
Tests110888.008100.00001000
ODIs51177*-887.50001010
T20Is640551.251145.45001010
FC739125617489.34197331.2700750180
List A4522141251915.6224850.400010160
T20s127321489184.9411478.070071160

Matt Parkinson T20 Stats

Bowling

TournamentTeamsMatInnsBallsRunsWktsBBIBBMAveEconSR4w5w10w
Vitality Blast2 teams999719982555131 5/23 5/2319.507.6715.2410
Men's 100MO-M161626735020 4/9 4/917.507.8613.3100

Batting & Fielding

TournamentTeamsMatInnsNORunsHSAveBFSR100s50s4s6sCtSt
Vitality Blast2 teams9920124412*5.505383.010040120
Men's 100MO-M16411163.661384.61000130
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Recent Matches of Matt Parkinson

MatchBatBowlDateGroundFormat
Kent vs Glamorgan0 & 04/103 & 4/8222-Jul-2025CardiffFC
Kent vs Essex--1/2218-Jul-2025CanterburyT20
Kent vs Middlesex--0/2513-Jul-2025CanterburyT20
Kent vs Somerset--1/2811-Jul-2025CanterburyT20
Kent vs Glamorgan0*1/1506-Jul-2025CardiffT20

Photos of Matt Parkinson

Matt Parkinson celebrates a breakthrough
Durham were crowned Division Two champions
Matt Parkinson sends one down
Matt Parkinson gives it a rip
Matt Parkinson claims the lbw of Tom Kohler-Cadmore
Matt Parkinson took three wickets in three overs