1. Jonathan Marc Bairstow was born on 26 September 1989 and is an English cricketer who played internationally for England in all formats as a right-handed wicket-keeper-batter.
83 Facts About Jonny Bairstow
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Jonny Bairstow has played for Sunrisers Hyderabad and Punjab Kings in the Indian Premier League.
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Jonny Bairstow made his One Day International and Twenty20 International debuts in 2011, and his Test debut in 2012.
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Jonny Bairstow was part of the England team that won the 2019 Cricket World Cup.
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Jonny Bairstow was born on 26 September 1989 in Bradford, West Yorkshire.
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Jonny Bairstow's father was David Bairstow, who played as a wicket-keeper for both Yorkshire and England.
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David died in 1998 when Jonny Bairstow was eight years old, but he had taught Jonny Bairstow how to play cricket and has remained a lasting inspiration.
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Jonny Bairstow went to St Peter's School, York, in 2001 and became an all-round athlete.
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In football, Jonny Bairstow was a member of the Leeds United Academy for eight years until he was fifteen.
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Aged 18, Jonny Bairstow was invited to play Second Eleven cricket for Yorkshire in the 2008 season, making six appearances in the Second XI Championship, in which he scored 308 runs at an average of 61.60.
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Jonny Bairstow was included in Yorkshire's first-team squad for the final County Championship match of the season against Sussex, but was not selected for the starting eleven.
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Three weeks later Jonny Bairstow signed a two-year contract with Yorkshire.
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Jonny Bairstow began the 2009 season playing for the Second XI.
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Jonny Bairstow was then picked for the first team in a County Championship match against Somerset at Headingley.
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Jonny Bairstow replaced the injured Michael Vaughan and, on his first-class debut, scored 28 and 82.
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In Somerset's second innings, Yorkshire's wicket-keeper Gerard Brophy was injured and Jonny Bairstow replaced him, taking four catches.
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Jonny Bairstow played in twelve first-class matches that season, scoring 592 runs at an average of 45.53, completing six half-centuries with a highest score of 84 not out, and taking 21 catches.
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Jonny Bairstow became a Yorkshire first-team regular in the 2010 season.
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Jonny Bairstow's best performance was an innings of 85 against Combined Campuses and Colleges, sharing a fifth wicket partnership of 134 with Jimmy Adams.
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Jonny Bairstow became Yorkshire's first-choice wicket-keeper in the 2011 season and was awarded his county cap.
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Jonny Bairstow began the season well and scored 205, his maiden first-class century, against Nottinghamshire at Trent Bridge.
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Jonny Bairstow was chosen as the Cricket Writers' Club Young Cricketer of the Year for 2011.
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Jonny Bairstow is the ninth of thirteen Yorkshire players who have won this award; his predecessors included Fred Trueman, Geoffrey Boycott, and Bairstow's team-mate Adil Rashid.
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Yorkshire were in Division One of the County Championship when Jonny Bairstow made his debut in 2009.
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Jonny Bairstow played in nine Division Two matches and scored 588 runs with three centuries.
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Yorkshire were runners-up to Durham in the 2013 Division One season, Jonny Bairstow playing in eight matches.
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Jonny Bairstow had a good season as a wicket-keeper, taking 27 catches but was less successful with the bat and scored only one century.
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Jonny Bairstow scored 647 runs in his thirteen matches, with a highest score of 161 not out against Sussex at Hove, although that was his sole championship century.
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Jonny Bairstow had an outstanding season in 2015 as Yorkshire retained the title.
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Jonny Bairstow played in only nine championship matches but he scored 1,108 runs at the very high average of 92.33 with five centuries and five half-centuries in his fifteen innings.
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Jonny Bairstow played in 88 first-class matches for the club from June 2009 to May 2016, but has appeared in only nine since then until May 2023.
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In one of his last List A matches for the club, Jonny Bairstow scored a career-best 174 from 113 deliveries as Yorkshire defeated Durham by six wickets at Headingley on 3 May 2017.
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In March 2025, Jonny Bairstow was named as Yorkshire's red-ball captain.
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Jonny Bairstow's innings included three sixes, the first off just the fifth ball he faced, and he was named Man of the Match.
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On his T20I debut, Jonny Bairstow had competition for the role of wicket-keeper as both Jos Buttler and Craig Kieswetter were in the team.
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Jonny Bairstow was England's fifth batter and he was bowled by Garey Mathurin for four.
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Jonny Bairstow then joined England Lions in January 2012 for seven matches against Bangladesh A and five against Sri Lanka A Jonny Bairstow rejoined England in February 2012 for three T20Is against Pakistan in the UAE.
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Jonny Bairstow completed his first ODI century in a match against West Indies at Old Trafford in September 2017.
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Jonny Bairstow appeared in all five of the matches that the team played but without success, his highest score being 18.
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Jonny Bairstow was left out of England's squads for the 2014 and 2016 ICC World Twenty20s, but he played in the 2021 and 2024 editions.
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Jonny Bairstow missed the 2022 tournament, which England won, because of a broken leg.
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Jonny Bairstow missed the 2015 Cricket World Cup but took part in the 2019 and 2023 editions.
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Jonny Bairstow was a member of England's winning team in 2019, playing in the final against New Zealand at Lord's.
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Matt Prior was England's established wicket-keeper so Jonny Bairstow was selected as a specialist batter.
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Jonny Bairstow played in all three matches but could only score 38 runs in his four innings.
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Jonny Bairstow was left out of the England team for the first two Tests as the selectors tried other options.
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Jonny Bairstow continued to play well for Yorkshire and England recalled him for the third Test at Lord's.
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Jonny Bairstow continued with help from Prior, Stuart Broad, and Graeme Swann, taking the score to 264 when he was bowled by Morne Morkel for 95.
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Jonny Bairstow's innings included thirteen boundaries off 196 balls in just over six hours.
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Jonny Bairstow had the talent to be a specialist batter in the team but England appeared to view him as their reserve keeper and, therefore, a spare batter.
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Jonny Bairstow told Wisden that he was "more gutted" to get out in the second innings against South Africa than the first.
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Jonny Bairstow thought England had a real chance of reaching their target.
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Jonny Bairstow was selected for two home Tests against New Zealand in May 2013 and did well by top-scoring with 41 in the first innings of the first Test.
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In July 2013, Jonny Bairstow made his "Ashes" debut against Australia.
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Jonny Bairstow travelled as reserve wicket-keeper to Matt Prior and did not play in any of the first three Tests, all of which England lost.
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Prior had been in poor form and Jonny Bairstow replaced him for the last two matches.
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Jonny Bairstow was left out of the England set-up for the next 18 months until, in recognition of his outstanding season for Yorkshire in 2015, he was recalled to the squad for an ODI against touring New Zealand.
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Jonny Bairstow scored 83 not out from 60 balls in that match, which England won, and was rewarded with a place in the team for the third Test against Australia at Edgbaston.
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Jonny Bairstow was in the England team which met Pakistan in the UAE in October and November 2015.
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Jonny Bairstow was reserve wicket-keeper to Jos Buttler who struggled to find his form.
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Jonny Bairstow scored 150 not out, his maiden Test century and a defining moment in his life.
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Jonny Bairstow had a "dream series" in 2016 against Sri Lanka.
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Jonny Bairstow scored "an imperious century" at Headingley, his county's home ground, having arrived at the crease with England in trouble on 83 for five.
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Jonny Bairstow's hundred, completed off 77 balls, was the second-fastest Test century by an English batter.
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Jonny Bairstow was joined by Jamie Overton and they added 241 for the seventh wicket, the partnership ending when Overton was out for 97.
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Jonny Bairstow went on to score 162 at better than a run-a-ball and England totalled 360 for a first innings lead.
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Jonny Bairstow again needed to stage a rescue and he did this with an innings of 106 on the third day which saved the follow-on and took England to 284.
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Root and Jonny Bairstow both completed centuries as they reached the target before lunch with an unbroken partnership of 269.
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Jonny Bairstow's century was his second of the match, his fourth in five innings, and his sixth in 2022.
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Jonny Bairstow was nominated for the 2022 Men's Test Cricketer of the Year titleand was named in the ICC Men's Test Team of the Year.
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Jonny Bairstow was the inaugural winner of the "Wisden Trophy", launched in April 2023 to recognise the outstanding Test performance of the previous calendar year.
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Jonny Bairstow won for his two centuries in the match against India.
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Jonny Bairstow was out of action for eight months until he made his comeback playing for Yorkshire in May 2023.
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Australia toured England that year and Jonny Bairstow played in all five Tests.
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Jonny Bairstow was batting with Ben Stokes and had scored 10 when he faced the final ball of an over from Cameron Green.
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Jonny Bairstow was left on 99 when the last wicket fell, the third time that has happened in an Ashes Test after Geoff Boycott in 1979 and Steve Waugh in 1995.
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Jonny Bairstow scored 238 runs in his ten innings with a highest score of 39.
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Jonny Bairstow was dropped for the West Indies tour of England in July 2024, with England men's managing director Rob Key pointing to his declining form as the reason for his omission.
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When Jonny Bairstow was chosen as one of the Wisden Cricketers of the Year for 2015, the dedication began by saying he is "a good man for a crisis".
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Jonny Bairstow has been hardened by adversity and is inspired by the closeness of a family united by his father's untimely death.
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Jonny Bairstow's England batting coach, Mark Ramprakash, says Bairstow is "a proper batter who can play in all formats" and that he excels "in difficult conditions when the ball moving around".
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Jonny Bairstow is unpredictable in his methods because he is "spontaneous and instinctive", though Ramprakash acknowledges that Bairstow's method is "no less valid" than his own.
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In 2017, Jonny Bairstow published an autobiography titled A Clear Blue Sky, co-written with Duncan Hamilton.