Jonny Bairstow

Jonny Bairstow

             Jonathan Marc Bairstow is an English Wicket-keeper batsman who was born on 26th September 1989 in West Yorkshire. He is the son of former English wicket-keeper David Bairstow. He is also a good football and rugby player. Apart from wicket-keeping, he is also known for his excellent fielding skills. At an early age of his life, he came into the limelight when he made 654 runs in a season and won Young Wisden School Cricketer of the year in 2007.

He got an early call for Yorkshire second XI and was soon promoted to the first team in 2008. His consistent batting performance impressed the county side and soon gets a contract to play for Yorkshire. For the next two years, he gave a good performance for the club with an average of forty. He made a number of fifties but could not convert it into three figures. In 2011, he scored his maiden first-class hundred and also it into a double hundred. He has a unique record of scoring 1000 runs in a domestic season in 2011 for Yorkshire. Soon the youngster gets selected for the national side against Ireland in august of that year.

International Career:

                        The right-handed wicket-keeper batsman made his international debut against India in the fourth ODI in Cardiff and scored a quick 21 balls 41 runs that helped England to win the match. Back-to-back success against India and in the T20s against Pakistan led him to his first Test call against West Indies at the age of 22 in 2012, but it was not such eventful.

He was selected for the England Team for the 2012 ICC World T20 but could not make an impact in the tournament. Then he was selected for the India tour of the England series in 2012-13 and performed well in the warm-up match but could not make it count in the 2nd test which was the only match he got to play in the series. The next big opportunity for him was the New-Zealand series in which he played a controlled 64 runs innings in his home ground. In 2013-14 Ashes, he kept wicket for the side but his performance was not that much special with the bat. However, in 2015 his maiden test century and the 399-run partnership with Stokes for the sixth wicket in the Cape Town match ensured his stunning comeback to the side. In the next home series against Sri Lanka, he smashed two hundred. 2016 was one of the best years in his career in which he not only scored 1470 runs but also recorded the most number of dismissals by any wicketkeeper in a calendar year with 70 dismissals. In the 2017 West Indies series, Bairstow was selected as an opener and there also he smashed two hundred. In 2018, he became the first English batsman to score three consecutive ODI hundreds and was named in the ICC World ODI XI of the year. Then he was selected in ICC World Cup 2019 as an opener in the England squad. He scored 532 runs in 11 games and helped the team to lift the trophy under Morgan’s captaincy. That year he also joined with Sunrisers Hyderabad of IPL and scored 445 runs in 10 games with an average of 55.62. He is also the first wicket-keeper batsman to score a hundred for Sunrisers Hyderabad in IPL.

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