Full Name

Ben William Sanderson

Born

January 03, 1989, Sheffield, Yorkshire

Age

35y 85d

Batting Style

Right hand Bat

Bowling Style

Right arm Medium fast

Playing Role

Bowler

Ben Sanderson enjoyed the finest season of his career in 2018, at 29, when he took 60 Championship wickets for Northants at only 16.70, one of the few bright spots in a largely depressing season. It was further evidence that a player who was almost lost to the game had turned himself into one of the most reliable performers on the county circuit.

Sanderson played three games for Yorkshire as a seam bowler before he was released in 2011. He joined the Minor County, Shropshire, and became involved with the family business before making a comeback to county cricket four years later. Playing club cricket in up-country Queensland, where he was working on a farm to keep fit, he then won a trial with Northants.

That return worked out well in 2016 in a Championship season that went from strength to strength, taking 55 second division wickets at 21 apiece. A career-best 7-22 against Glamorgan on an uneven pitch in Swansea ("the food is not great here but I had a protein shake at lunch and that seemed to work") won him a new three-year contract and he bettered it the following month with 8-73 against Gloucestershire as Northants finished the season with victory.
ESPNcricinfo staff

Ben Sanderson Career Stats

Bowling

FormatMatInnsBallsRunsWktsBBIBBMAveEconSR4w5w10w
FC981651797379513608/7310/5522.082.6549.919183
List A484419451760613/173/1728.855.4231.8000
T20s767514832144874/214/2124.648.6717.0200

Batting & Fielding

FormatMatInnsNORunsHSAveBFSR100s50s4s6sCtSt
FC9813342850469.34176148.26001255120
List A48236159319.3525263.090082120
T20s7622146312*7.878177.770032150

Recent Matches of Ben Sanderson

MatchBatBowlDateGroundFormat
Northants vs Essex123/17 & 3/1426-Sep-2023NorthamptonFC
Northants vs Surrey02/56 & 0/919-Sep-2023The OvalFC
Northants vs Warwickshire13*0/26 & 5/4210-Sep-2023BirminghamFC
Northants vs Lancashire1* & 192/9103-Sep-2023NorthamptonFC
Northants vs Derbyshire22/5120-Aug-2023NorthamptonList A

Photos of Ben Sanderson

Ben Sanderson trapped Jos Buttler for a duck
Ben Sanderson celebrates an early breakthrough
Ben Sanderson reflects on a cold April day
Ben Sanderson celebrates the wicket of Pieter Malan as Middlesex's batting fails again
Ben Sanderson claimed the wicket of Nick Browne
Ben Sanderson belts out an appeal