Batting style Left-handed National side Bermuda | Name Delray Rawlins Role Cricket Player | |
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Born 14 September 1997 (age 26) ( 1997-09-14 ) | ||
Super Over – Jofra Archer v’s Delray Rawlins
Delray Millard Wendell Rawlins (born 14 September 1997) is a Bermudian international cricketer currently listed with Sussex in English county cricket. He made his senior debut for Bermuda's national team at the age of 15 (in February 2013), and has since made regular appearances for the team in international competitions. Rawlins has also played for the England under-19s, qualifying by attending an English boarding school. On 14 April 2017, he made his first-class cricket debut for Sussex in the 2017 County Championship. On 19 May 2017, he made his List A debut for Sussex against the South Africans team, during South Africa's tour of England.
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Early life and domestic career
Rawlins was born in Bermuda, attending Warwick Academy and playing his junior cricket for Warwick Workmen's Club and Pembroke Hamilton Club. He was inducted into the national youth programme at a young age, where he was coached by former national captain Clay Smith. In 2014, as part of a programme organised by the Bermuda Cricket Board, Rawlins won a scholarship to attend boarding school in England. He subsequently began studying at St Bede's School in East Sussex. Rawlins was inducted into the Sussex Cricket Academy in April 2015, and made his Second XI Championship debut in July 2015. He signed a one-year professional contract in October 2016.
Bermuda
Rawlins made his senior debut for the Bermudian national team in February 2013 (aged 15), on a tour of Barbados. He was selected for a tour of the United States the following month, and then in May played two matches in the 2013 World Cricket League Division Three tournament (which Bermuda hosted). Later in 2013, Rawlins also represented the Bermuda under-19s at the ICC Americas Under-19 Championship in Canada and the ICC Americas under-20s at a WICB tournament. He returned to the senior team for the 2014 WCL Division Four tournament in Malaysia, playing in all seven of Bermuda's matches. Rawlins has since represented Bermuda at the 2015 ICC Americas Twenty20 and 2016 WCL Division Four events.
England U19
In May 2016, Rawlins was included in England's under-19 development programme. He participated in a training camp in Dubai later in the year, and in December 2016 was selected in the England under-19s squad for a tour of India in early 2017. In the first international of the tour, against the India under-19s, Rawlins came in sixth in the batting order and scored 107 not out from 88 balls, including eight fours and five sixes. He followed up with 2/46 from ten overs in India's innings. Two games later, Rawlins scored 96 from 106 balls and took 2/30 from eight overs.
