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Ben Duckett

Ben Matthew Duckett (born 17 October 1994) is an English international cricketer who plays for the England cricket team in all three formats of the game. He is a left-handed top-order batter who can play as a wicket-keeper. Duckett plays domestically for Nottinghamshire.

He made his international debut for England in October 2016.

Duckett made his debut for Northamptonshire in the 2012 Friends Life t20 against Gloucestershire on 8 July 2012, whilst in his first year of A-levels at Stowe School. During the 2015 season, he scored four centuries in the County Championship, just managing to break the barrier of a thousand first-class runs in the season, with 1002 at an average of 52.73.

The 2016 season was one of conspicuous success for Duckett. He began the season with a new highest score of 282 not out against Sussex. He scored three other first-class hundreds during the season, scoring 185, 189 and 205, with a total of 1338 runs at 58.17 and played in the semi-final and final of the Twenty20 Blast for Northants. He finished on the winning side in the final, and had particular success in the semi-final, scoring 84 off just 47 balls, and sharing a 132 run partnership with Alex Wakely.

At the end of the season, Duckett was named as the young cricketer of the year by both the Cricket Writers' Club and the Professional Cricketers' Association (PCA). He was also named PCA Player of the Year, the first player to win both PCA awards in the same season.

Duckett joined Nottinghamshire in August 2018. In March 2019, he scored a double century for the club against Cambridge MCCU during the 2019 Marylebone Cricket Club University Matches from 168 balls. It was the fastest first-class double century by a Nottinghamshire batsman, in terms of balls faced.

Duckett scored an unbeaten 53 off 38 balls to guide Nottinghamshire to a six-wicket victory in the 2020 T20 Blast final against Surrey.

During the 2022 County Championship season he scored 1,012 runs at an average of 72.28, including three centuries, as Nottinghamshire won Division Two. He signed a new three-year contract at the club in December 2022 and a further two-year extension in May 2025.

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