Christopher Roger Woakes was born on 2 March 1989 and is an English cricketer who plays internationally for England in all formats.
31 Facts About Chris Woakes
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Chris Woakes was part of the England teams that won the 2019 Cricket World Cup and 2022 T20 World Cup.
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Chris Woakes was born in March 1989 in Birmingham, and attended Barr Beacon Language College in Walsall from 2000 to 2007.
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Chris Woakes began playing cricket when he was seven years old with Aston Manor Cricket Club.
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Chris Woakes played three games in the 2006 Minor Counties Trophy for Herefordshire County Cricket Club, and played for Warwickshire's under-15, under-17, academy and Second XI teams between 2004 and 2007.
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Chris Woakes is an avid supporter of local football club Aston Villa FC He was a trainee footballer with Walsall FC as a winger until the age of 14.
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Chris Woakes represented Warwickshire in one match during the 2006 season, during a West Indian tour of England.
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Chris Woakes has since represented Warwickshire in the Second XI Championship.
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Chris Woakes was a regular for the Warwickshire First XI in 2008.
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Chris Woakes took 42 wickets at an average of 20.57 runs per wicket over the course of the County Championship season, topping Warwickshire's bowling averages.
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On 6 April 2009, Chris Woakes was called up to the England Lions squad.
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Chris Woakes claimed his 200th first-class wicket in Warwickshire's victory over Sussex in the County Championship in July 2011.
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Chris Woakes was released by RCB ahead of the 2019 IPL auction, where he went unsold.
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Chris Woakes has pulled out of IPL 2020 to keep himself fresh for England Test season.
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Chris Woakes was retained by Delhi for the 2021 season.
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Chris Woakes made his Delhi Capitals debut vs CSK in match 2 of IPL 2021.
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Chris Woakes made his International Twenty20 debut on 12 January 2011 against Australia in Adelaide.
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Chris Woakes returned to the England set up in 2012 during an ODI series against South Africa and continued to feature in the one-day side against India and New Zealand later in the year.
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Chris Woakes was an integral part of England's ODI side, playing all four matches and was selected in the ODI squad that toured Sri Lanka towards the end of 2014.
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England toured without injured senior bowlers Stuart Broad and James Anderson, meaning Chris Woakes was trusted with the new ball.
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Chris Woakes was part of the England side for the 2015 Cricket World Cup, although injury ruled him out of England's final match of the tournament.
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Chris Woakes's score is the joint highest ODI score by number eight or lower in ODI history, a record that he shares with fellow Englishman, Sam Curran.
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Chris Woakes has continued to feature in England's one-day and Test squads, and in April 2019 was named in England's squad for the 2019 Cricket World Cup.
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Chris Woakes was named the Player of the Match in the World Cup semi-final against Australia, taking three wickets to see England through to the World Cup Final against New Zealand, the teams first appearance in a final since 1992.
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Chris Woakes again took three wickets in the final as England won the tournament.
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On 17 June 2020, Chris Woakes was included in England's 30-man squad to start training behind closed doors for the Test series against the West Indies, and was later named in England's thirteen-man squad for the first Test match of the series.
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Chris Woakes reached 150 ODI wickets of his career by taking wicket of Pathum Nissanka in 1st ODI of Sri Lanka tour of England, 2021.
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In September 2021, Chris Woakes was named in England's squad for the 2021 ICC Men's T20 World Cup.
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In September 2022, Chris Woakes was named in England's squad for the 2022 ICC Men's T20 World Cup.
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Chris Woakes played in every game for England who went on to win the tournament, beating Pakistan in the final.
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Chris Woakes is one of 6 players to play in both the 2019 ODI and 2022 T20 world cup winning squads.