1. Oliver John Douglas Pope was born on 2 January 1998 and is an English cricketer who plays for the England cricket team in Test cricket and is the current vice-captain.
28 Facts About Ollie Pope
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Ollie Pope is a right-handed batter who occasionally plays as a wicket-keeper.
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Ollie Pope made his Test debut against India in 2018.
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Ollie Pope attended Cranleigh School and is the great-great-great-great-grandson of the school's first headmaster, Joseph Merriman.
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Ollie Pope played club cricket for both Guildford and Cranleigh Cricket Clubs and was a member of the Surrey age-group sides.
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On 26 August 2016, Ollie Pope signed a two-year professional contract with Surrey.
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Ollie Pope made his first-class debut on 28 March 2017 for Surrey against Oxford MCCU as part of the Marylebone Cricket Club University fixtures.
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Ollie Pope scored his maiden List A half-century on 7 May 2017 against Sussex.
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Ollie Pope made his Twenty20 debut for Surrey in the 2017 NatWest t20 Blast on 7 July 2017.
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Ollie Pope scored his maiden first-class century against Hampshire at the end of the 2017 season, at the age of 19.
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Ollie Pope's success continued into 2019, as he was the highest-scoring Surrey batter in their first-class season with 812 runs at an average of 101, including 3 centuries, across only 9 innings.
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Ollie Pope re-entered the Surrey side for nine matches of the 2021 County Championship after the Covid disrupted 2020 season, scoring 861 runs at an average of 78.27, including totals of 245 against Leicestershire and a career-best 274 against Glamorgan.
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Ollie Pope was added to England's squad for the second Test against India at Lord's, where he made his Test debut, on 9 August 2018.
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Ollie Pope made 28 in his only knock, as England won by an innings.
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Ollie Pope then toured South Africa but missed the first test due to illness.
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On 29 May 2020, Ollie Pope 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 17 June 2020, Ollie Pope was included in England's 30-man squad to start training behind closed doors for the Test series against the West Indies.
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On 4 July 2020, Ollie Pope was named in England's thirteen-man squad for the first Test match of the series.
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Ollie Pope played in all six Test matches of the 2020 England summer, scoring 215 runs at an average of 26.9 against Pakistan and the West Indies, including scores of 91 and 62.
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Ollie Pope was not originally included for England's 2021 tour of India, though again he accompanied the tour party, but was added after the England medical team were satisfied he had recovered sufficiently.
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In England's 2021 series against New Zealand, Ollie Pope made 84 runs in 4 innings, with a highscore of just 23.
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Ollie Pope was included in the England squad for the 2022 test series against New Zealand.
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In June 2023, Ollie Pope broke the record for the quickest Test double hundred to be made in England, as he reached 200 in just 207 balls at Lord's against Ireland, beating the previous best of 220 balls achieved by Ian Botham against India in 1982.
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Ollie Pope suffered a dislocated shoulder in June 2023, preventing him playing for several months.
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Ollie Pope was part of England's squad for the 5 match Test tour of India in 2024.
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Ollie Pope was part of England's squad for the three-match Test series in 2024 against the West Indies cricket team.
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When Ben Stokes was injured prior to England's series against Sri Lanka, Ollie Pope stepped up from vice-captain to lead the side in those three matches.
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Similarities with Bell are often drawn to Ollie Pope's "elegant" cover drive, ability to rotate the strike, and "compact" technique.