28 Facts About Daniel Bell-Drummond

Daniel James Bell-Drummond was born on 4 August 1993 and is an English professional cricketer, who plays for Kent County Cricket Club primarily as a batsman.

Daniel Bell-Drummond has represented England at youth level and has played for the England Lions cricket team at senior level.

Daniel Bell-Drummond's parents are of Jamaican descent and he has described how watching both West Indian and English cricket home was a major influence on his development.

Daniel Bell-Drummond was spotted by Kent County Cricket Club playing for Catford Wanderers as a seven-year-old and progressed through the county system, scoring his first century for the under-10 side aged just seven.

Daniel Bell-Drummond played for Kent age group teams, scoring centuries at every level, before joining the Cricket Academy at Kent where he was awarded the John Aitken Gary Trophy as the Academy Scholar of the Year in 2010.

Daniel Bell-Drummond signed a three-year professional contract with Kent in September 2010 at age 17.

Daniel Bell-Drummond attended Dulwich Prep and won a scholarship to Millfield School and played cricket for the school team as well as for England at under-15, under-17 and under-19 levels, captaining the under-17 side against Sri Lanka in 2010.

Daniel Bell-Drummond completed his sixth form studies at the school in 2012 after signing his professional contract with Kent and was named the Young Wisden Schools Cricketer of the Year in the 2012 edition of Wisden after scoring over 800 runs for Millfield in 2011.

Daniel Bell-Drummond made his youth Test debut on 21 July 2010 at the County Ground, Northampton before scoring unbeaten 88 in the second youth Test later in the same month, aged only 16.

Daniel Bell-Drummond played in both under-19 Test matches and in four youth one-day international matches during England's return tour of Sri Lanka in January and February 2011.

In July 2011 Daniel Bell-Drummond played in a one-day series against South Africa under-19s.

Daniel Bell-Drummond top-scored for England in three of the seven matches in the series and was the leading run scorer for the team in the series, scoring 329 runs in seven innings at an average of 47.00.

Daniel Bell-Drummond was the leading run-scorer in the competition with 287 runs at an average of 95.66, including a match-winning 103 not out against Australia in an innings when the next highest score for the England team was 28.

Daniel Bell-Drummond made his first-class cricket debut for Kent at the age of 17 in a university match against Loughborough MCCU in May 2011, scoring 80 runs from 103 balls.

Daniel Bell-Drummond spent most of the 2012 season playing for Kent's Second XI, making only two first-class appearances during the season, including against the touring South Africans at Canterbury.

Daniel Bell-Drummond made his maiden first-class century in April 2013 against a Cardiff University side and used the innings to become a regular in the Kent side during the 2013 season.

Daniel Bell-Drummond deputised again in May 2017 when Adam Rouse injured a thumb, taking one catch behind the stumps.

In December 2015 Daniel Bell-Drummond made his first appearance for England Lions against the United Arab Emirates in a T20 match in Dubai.

Daniel Bell-Drummond scored 5 runs from 5 deliveries opening the batting.

Daniel Bell-Drummond made an excellent start to the 2016 domestic season, hitting his maiden first-class double-hundred against Loughborough MCCU followed by a century in his first innings of the County Championship season against Leicestershire.

Daniel Bell-Drummond was chosen to play in the North v South pre-season series in the United Arab Emirates.

Daniel Bell-Drummond made his debut in the competition on 21 November 2017, although only played once for the team.

Daniel Bell-Drummond broke his run of seasons without a first-class hundred, scoring a century against Warwickshire, registering his highest County Championship score of 166 runs.

Daniel Bell-Drummond scored six half-centuries in first-class cricket, was Kent's leading T20 run scorer and scored a century in the Royal London Cup competition, averaging more than 60 runs per innings in four matches in the competition.

Daniel Bell-Drummond featured in the side's first three group stage matches but failed to score more than 12 runs in an innings.

In 2018 it was revealed that Daniel Bell-Drummond was one of only eight black or mixed-race cricketers playing in the County Championship, with only three, including Daniel Bell-Drummond, aged 25 or under.

Daniel Bell-Drummond has scored six List A centuries, with a highest score of 171 not out made for England Lions in 2016, and one T20 century, a score of 112 not out made against Surrey at the Nevill Ground, Tunbridge Wells in 2016.

Daniel Bell-Drummond took his first professional wicket in 2018 and began to bowl rather more frequently during the start of the 2019 season, taking five wickets during Kent's 2019 Royal London One-Day Cup campaign with his "slippery right-arm seamers" and contributing wickets in the County Championship.