Laurie Evans (cricketer)

Laurie John Evans (born 12 October 1987) is an English cricketer, contracted to Surrey County Cricket Club. He was born in Lambeth in London and educated at The John Fisher School and Whitgift School,[1] before attending Durham University, where he played first-class cricket for Durham MCC University. He graduated from Surrey County Cricket Club Academy in 2007. He played three first-class games for Durham UCCE in 2007, and one first-class game for the Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) against the touring West Indies later that summer. He was released from Surrey in 2010 having played just three county championship matches for them, and he then signed for Warwickshire later that year.[2]

Laurie Evans
Personal information
Full nameLaurie John Evans
Born (1987-10-12) 12 October 1987
Lambeth, London, England
Height6 ft 0 in (1.83 m)
BattingRight-handed
BowlingRight-arm medium-fast
Domestic team information
YearsTeam
2005–2010Surrey
2007Durham UCCE
2010–2016Warwickshire (squad no. 32)
2016Northamptonshire (on loan)
2017–2020Sussex (squad no. 32)
2020Surrey (on loan)
2019Rajshahi Kings
2019Multan Sultans
2019St Kitts & Nevis Patriots
2020Colombo Kings
FC debut14 April 2007 Durham UCCE v Nottinghamshire
LA debut5 August 2009 Surrey v Derbyshire
Career statistics
Competition FC LA T20
Matches 71 63 156
Runs scored 3,474 1,735 3,624
Batting average 29.94 37.71 33.55
100s/50s 6/18 3/5 1/25
Top score 213* 134* 108*
Balls bowled 366 54 22
Wickets 2 1 1
Bowling average 135.00 82.00 35.00
5 wickets in innings 0 0 0
10 wickets in match 0 0 0
Best bowling 1/29 1/29 1/5
Catches/stumpings 56/– 25/– 62/–
Source: CricketArchive, 8 October 2020

With Tim Ambrose, Evans set a new Warwickshire county record for a sixth wicket partnership on 1 July 2015. The pair added 327 against Sussex in the County Championship at Birmingham.[3]

In August 2016 he moved to Northamptonshire on a one-month-long loan.[4] In December 2016, Evans signed for Sussex ahead of the 2017 season.[5]

In September 2018, he was named in Kabul's squad in the first edition of the Afghanistan Premier League tournament.[6] The following month, he was named in the squad for the Rajshahi Kings team, following the draft for the 2018–19 Bangladesh Premier League.[7] He was the leading run-scorer for the team in the tournament, with 339 runs in eleven matches.[8] In November 2019, he was selected to play for the Dhaka Platoon in the 2019–20 Bangladesh Premier League.[9]

On 29 May 2020, Evans was named in a 55-man group of players to begin training ahead of international fixtures starting in England following the COVID-19 pandemic.[10][11] On 9 July 2020, Evans was included in England's 24-man squad to start training behind closed doors for the One Day International (ODI) series against Ireland.[12][13]

References

  1. "Laurie Evans". Cricinfo. Retrieved 4 August 2016.
  2. "Laurie Evans released by Surrey". Cricinfo. Retrieved 4 August 2016.
  3. Culley, Jon. "Record Evans-Ambrose stand confirms deathly draw". Cricinfo. Retrieved 4 August 2016.
  4. Vickers, Tom. "Northants loan Warwickshire's Evans in bid to boost Championship fortunes". www.northantstelegraph.co.uk. Retrieved 3 August 2016.
  5. "Laurie Evans: Sussex sign batsman from Warwickshire". BBC Sport. 22 December 2016. Retrieved 22 December 2016.
  6. "Afghanistan Premier League 2018 – All you need to know from the player draft". CricTracker. Retrieved 10 September 2018.
  7. "Full players list of the teams following Players Draft of BPL T20 2018–19". Bangladesh Cricket Board. Retrieved 29 October 2018.
  8. "Bangladesh Premier League, 2018/19 – Rajshahi Kings: Batting and bowling averages". ESPN Cricinfo. Retrieved 2 February 2019.
  9. "BPL draft: Tamim Iqbal to team up with coach Mohammad Salahuddin for Dhaka". ESPN Cricinfo. Retrieved 18 November 2019.
  10. "England Men confirm back-to-training group". England and Wales Cricket Board. Retrieved 29 May 2020.
  11. "Alex Hales, Liam Plunkett left out as England name 55-man training group". ESPN Cricinfo. Retrieved 29 May 2020.
  12. "Injured Chris Jordan misses England's ODI squad to face Ireland". ESPN Cricinfo. Retrieved 9 July 2020.
  13. "England men name behind-closed-doors ODI training group". England and Wales Cricket Board. Retrieved 9 July 2020.
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