Sam Curran (cricketer)

Sam Curran
Personal information
Full name Samuel Matthew Curran
Born (1998-06-03) 3 June 1998
Northampton, Northamptonshire, England
Batting style Left-handed
Bowling style Left-arm medium-fast
Role All-rounder
Relations Kevin Curran (father)
Tom Curran (brother)
Ben Curran (brother)
Domestic team information
YearsTeam
2015–present Surrey (squad no. 58)
First-class debut 13 July 2015 Surrey v Kent
List A debut 27 July 2015 Surrey v Northamptonshire
Career statistics
Competition FC LA T20
Matches 16 21 21
Runs scored 738 295 170
Batting average 38.84 26.81 15.45
100s/50s 0/6 0/1 0/0
Top score 96 57 32
Balls bowled 2,228 920 354
Wickets 49 24 18
Bowling average 27.73 33.29 26.16
5 wickets in innings 4 0 0
10 wickets in match 0 n/a n/a
Best bowling 7/58 4/32 3/17
Catches/stumpings 5/– 9/– 7/–
Source: CricketArchive, 2 December 2016

Samuel Matthew Curran (born 3 June 1998) is a cricketer, who plays for Surrey County Cricket Club. Curran is a left-handed batsman who bowls left-arm medium-fast. He was born in Northampton and educated at Springvale House and St George's College, Harare in Zimbabwe then moved Wellington College, Berkshire. He is the son of Kevin Curran and the younger brother of Tom Curran and Ben Curran.[1]

He made his debut for the county at first team level in the NatWest t20 Blast against Kent on 19 June 2015, aged only 17 years and 16 days.[2] He made his first-class debut in the match beginning on 13 July, also against Kent. At 17 years and 40 days, he was the second-youngest person to play first-class cricket for Surrey behind Tony Lock, who was 17 years and 8 days old when he made his debut, coincidentally 69 years earlier to the day and against the same county.[3] In the Kent first innings, opening the bowling with his brother bowling at the other end, he took 5/101.[4]

In 2015 Surrey's Director of Cricket, Alec Stewart, described him as the best seventeen-year-old cricketer he had ever seen.[5]

In December 2015 he was named in England's squad for the 2016 Under-19 Cricket World Cup.[6]

References

  1. "Sam Curran". CricketArchive. Retrieved 14 July 2015.
  2. "Surrey v Kent, NatWest T20 Blast 2015 (South Division)". CricketArchive. Retrieved 14 July 2015.
  3. Daily Telegraph, "Curran strikes on debut", 14 July 2015, sports section page 17.
  4. "Surrey v Kent, LV County Championship 2015 (Division 2)". CricketArchive. Retrieved 14 July 2015.
  5. "Curran starlets in trim for Lord's challenge". ESPNCricinfo. Retrieved 17 September 2015.
  6. "Aneurin Donald recalled for U-19 World Cup". ESPNCricinfo. Retrieved 22 December 2015.

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