1. Ben Matthew Duckett was born on 17 October 1994 and is an English international cricketer who plays for the England cricket team in all three formats of the game.
38 Facts About Ben Duckett
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Ben Duckett is a left-handed top-order batter who can play as a wicket-keeper.
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Ben Duckett made his international debut for England in October 2016.
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Ben Duckett began the season with a new highest score of 282 not out against Sussex.
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Ben Duckett scored three other first-class hundreds during the season, scoring 185,189 and 205, with a total of 1338 runs at 58.17 and played in the semi-final and final of the Twenty20 Blast for Northants.
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Ben Duckett finished on the winning side in the final, and had particular success in the semi-final, scoring 84 off just 47 balls, and sharing a 132 run partnership with Alex Wakely.
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Ben Duckett was named PCA Player of the Year, the first player to win both PCA awards in the same season.
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Ben Duckett scored an unbeaten 53 off 38 balls to guide Nottinghamshire to a six-wicket victory in the 2020 T20 Blast final against Surrey.
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Ben Duckett signed a new three-year contract at the club in December 2022.
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Ben Duckett was included in the England Under-19 squad for the 2012 ICC Under-19 Cricket World Cup.
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In July 2016, Duckett was selected for the England Lions squad for the series against Pakistan A and Sri Lanka A In the first match, he scored 163 not out off just 104 balls.
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Ben Duckett played for the Welsh Fire in the first two editions of The Hundred.
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Ben Duckett's performances gained widespread praise, despite a disappointing season for the team - being named in the team of the tournament by ESPN CricInfo.
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Ben Duckett left the franchise in 2023, joining Birmingham Phoenix as their first pick of the draft.
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Ben Duckett was selected in the squad for the Test and ODI matches in the tour of Bangladesh.
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Ben Duckett made his England debut in the first ODI against Bangladesh.
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Ben Duckett scored 60 as England made 309 to win the game by 21 runs.
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Ben Duckett was out for a duck in the second game, which England lost.
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Ben Duckett made his Test debut against Bangladesh following his good performances in the ODI side.
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Ben Duckett scored 14 in the first innings as England scored 293 in their first innings, before making 15 in the second innings as England won by 22 runs.
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Ben Duckett made seven in the first innings of the second Test, and scored his maiden Test half-century in the second innings, scoring 56, although England lost by 108 runs.
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Ben Duckett was selected for the tour to India though for batting at 4 with Haseeb Hameed opening.
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Ben Duckett was dropped after the 2nd Test after a relatively poor series.
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Ben Duckett was alleged to have poured a drink over teammate James Anderson.
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Ben Duckett was later suspended from playing in the final three England Lions games of the tour, and issued with a fine.
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Ben Duckett was dropped for the 2018 England Lions tour of the West Indies on account of the incident.
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Ben Duckett made his T20I debut for England against Pakistan on 5 May 2019.
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On 29 May 2020, Ben Duckett was named in a 55-man group of players to begin training ahead of international fixtures starting in England following the COVID-19 pandemic.
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On 9 July 2020, Ben Duckett was included in England's 24-man squad to start training behind closed doors for the ODI series against Ireland.
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Ben Duckett came into the England side on a tour of Pakistan in late 2022.
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Ben Duckett was seen as having the skill necessary for the so-called Bazball style of cricket adopted by the England team under Ben Stokes and Brendon McCullum.
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The decision brought immediate success with Zak Crawley and Ben Duckett scoring the fastest ever England century opening stand, and Crawley and Ben Duckett scoring the fastest double-century partnership in Test cricket history.
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Ben Duckett remained in the side for the rest of the series.
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Ben Duckett continued to perform for England scoring 151 runs in a two Test series against New Zealand.
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Ben Duckett then hit 76 from 92 balls in the second innings.
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In February 2025, Ben Duckett made history with a brilliant innings in the ICC Champions Trophy.
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Ben Duckett scored 165 runs off 143 balls against Australia, hitting 17 fours and three sixes.
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Ben Duckett recorded the fifth-highest ODI score for England and the fourth-highest in Pakistan.