Full name Benjamin Thomas Foakes Batting style Right-handed Name Ben Foakes | Role Cricketer Date joined 2011 | |
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Current team Essex County Cricket Club (#4) | ||
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Benjamin Thomas Foakes (born 15 February 1993) is an English cricketer. Foakes is a right-handed batsman who fields as a wicket-keeper. He was born in Colchester, Essex and educated at Tendring Technology College.
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Foakes made his debut for England Under-19s in January 2011, playing two Youth Test matches against Sri Lanka Under-19s during England's tour to Sri Lanka. It was during this tour that he made his Youth One Day International debut, to date he has had made six appearances in that format, most recently in July 2011 when he played three Youth One Day Internationals against South Africa Under-19s.
During the 2011 English season, Foakes made his debut for Essex in a first-class match against the touring Sri Lankans at the County Ground, Chelmsford. He was dismissed for 5 runs in Essex's first-innings by Tissara Perera. He took three catches from behind the stumps, taking two in the Sri Lankans first-innings and a single catch in their second. In September 2011, he signed a professional contract which runs until 2013.
On 14 August 2014 it was announced that Foakes had joined Surrey County Cricket Club.
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