Joe Denly

Joe Denly
Denly at Beckenham in 2016
Personal information
Full name Joseph Liam Denly
Born (1986-03-16) 16 March 1986
Canterbury, Kent, England
Nickname Denners, Joey, No Pants
Height 5 ft 10 in (1.78 m)
Batting Right-handed
Bowling Right-arm leg spin
Role Batsman
International information
National side
ODI debut (cap 209) 27 August 2009 v Ireland
Last ODI 2 October 2009 v Australia
ODI shirt no. 2 (previously 55)
T20I debut (cap 47) 30 August 2009 v Australia
Last T20I 20 Feb 2010 v Pakistan
T20I shirt no. 2
Domestic team information
YearsTeam
2004–2011 Kent
2011–2014 Middlesex
2013 Barisal Burners
2014 Brothers Union
2015–present Kent (squad no. 6)
2017 Dhaka Dynamites
2017/18 Sydney Sixers (squad no. 24)
2018 Karachi Kings (squad no. 6)
Career statistics
Competition ODI T20I FC LA
Matches 9 5 189 151
Runs scored 268 20 10,986 4,668
Batting average 29.77 4.00 36.37 36.18
100s/50s 0/2 0/0 27/54 8/23
Top score 67 14 227 150*
Balls bowled – 6 4,262 1,304
Wickets – 1 62 46
Bowling average – 9.00 37.01 23.86
5 wickets in innings – 0 0 0
10 wickets in match – 0 0 0
Best bowling – 1/9 4/36 4/35
Catches/stumpings 5/– 1/– 78/– 52/–
Source: CricInfo, 26 September 2018

Joseph Liam Denly (born 16 March 1986) is an English professional cricketer who plays for Kent County Cricket Club. He is a right-handed batsman and occasional leg break bowler who plays as a top-order batsman. Denly began his cricketing career at Kent before moving to Middlesex at the end of the 2011 season before returning to Kent for the 2014 season. He has represented England in One Day Internationals and Twenty20 international matches.

Denly first came to attention during the England Under 19 tour of India in 2005 where he made three half-centuries in three youth Test matches. He had previously represented England at Under 17 level and went on the ECB Under 18 tour to the Netherlands in 2003.

Early life

Denly was born in Canterbury in 1986. He attended Chaucer Technology School in the city.[1] Denly's brother, Sam, is manager of Kent-based football club Hythe Town.[2]

Career

Denly batting for Middlesex in 2013

Denly played for Kent County Cricket Club at every age level and was a member of the county's cricket academy. He made his first-class debut against Oxford University in 2004 and played his debut County Championship match against Gloucestershire in 2005. At the end of the season he was offered an extension to his contract. He played for England at under-17, 18 and 19 level.

In 2006 Denly represented Gore Court in the Kent Cricket League, having previously represented Whitstable in the same league, averaging 61.75.[3]

In 2007, Denly carried his bat for 115 not out out of a Kent total of only 199 against Hampshire at Canterbury.[4] In July Denly was called up to the England Lions squad for the match against India, and made 83 off 90 balls. In his first season, he brought up 1000 first-class runs.

The 2008 season began slowly with a series of low scores. He did, however, make a career best score of 149 against Somerset at Tunbridge Wells and go on to end the season as one of the year's highly rated players.[5]

Denly has spent several English off-seasons, starting in 2006–07, playing in Australia in the Sydney Grade Cricket competition for UTS Balmain (now known as Sydney Cricket Club), in part to improve his back foot play.[6][7][8] He returned to the club for the 2016–17 season.[9]

Denly was called up to England's squad for the One Day International (ODI) series against Australia on 17 August 2009,[10] and made his international debut in the ODI match against Ireland on 27 August 2009, opening the innings and top-scoring with 67.[11] Denly made his international Twenty20 debut against Australia on 30 August 2009, though the result was a golden duck, the same result was achieved in his second Twenty20 against South Africa. He was dropped from the England squad in the run up to the 2010 World T20.[12]

On 9 September 2011, Denly surpassed his previous high score of 149 and recorded a score of 199 against Derbyshire. On 28 September 2011, Denly moved from Kent, his boyhood club, to newly promoted Middlesex.[13] He returned to Kent in October 2014 after three seasons with Middlesex.[14] Denly improved on his first-class high score in May 2016 when he scored 206 not out in the first innings of a match against Northamptonshire, his maiden first-class double century.[15] He signed a long-term contract extension during August 2016,[16] having made headlines earlier in the year when he retired not out in a County Championship match against Derbyshire at Derby when his wife went into labour unexpectedly early with the couple's first child.[17][18][19] At the beginning of 2016, Denly gave up alcohol for a year in order to raise money for Cancer Research UK and the Professional Cricketers' Association benevolent fund, raising more than £4,000.[20][21] After signing a contract extension in August 2016,[22] Denly further improved his first-class high score on 21 May 2017 when he made 227 in the second innings of a Championship match against Worcestershire. His innings put Kent on course for victory, but Worcestershire succssfully chased a target of 399 the following day.[23]

Denly was selected in 2017 by Dhaka Dynamites as an overseas player in the Bangladesh Premier League draft. He made his Dhaka debut in late November in the 2017–18 Bangladesh Premier League, scoring 44 runs on debut against Chittagong Vikings.[24] He played in Dhaka's final six matches of the tournament as the team reached the final of the competition where they lost to Rangpur Riders.[25][26]

In 2018, Denly joined the Sydney Sixers as a replacement for Jason Roy when he was selected by the national team in the 2017-18 Big Bash League season.[27] He performed well in his four games, scoring 146 runs at an average of 73.00 and taking one wicket. He was player of the match in the Sixers final match of the tournament against Melbourne Stars, making 72 runs from 45 balls and taking one wicket.[28] After captaining Kent in the Caribbean Regional Super50 competition, Denly played 12 matches for Karachi Kings in the 2018 Pakistan Super League where he was the fourth highest run scorer in the competition with 323 runs.

The 2018 domestic season saw Denly lead the MVP rankings in the Royal London Cup and T20 Blast.[29][30] He signed a contract extension during the season and scored centuries in both competitions, setting a new List A record highest score for Kent with his 150 against Glamorgan at Canterbury[29] and became the first player in any form of T20 cricket to score a century and take a hat-trick in the same match against Surrey at The Oval.[31][32][33] During the season he bowled far more frequently than in the past and took wickets in all formats of the game, including 20 in the County Championship at a bowling average of 18.90.[34][35] He also scored three Championship centuries and in September was named in England's Test squad for the series against Sri Lanka in November.[34][36][37] Earlier in the month Sydney Sixers announced that they had re-signed Denly for whole of the 2018–19 Big Bash.[30][38] At the end of the season he was voted Players' Player of the Year at the Professional Cricketers' Association awards, beating team mate Matt Henry and Surrey batsman Rory Burns.[39]

Career Best Performances

Denly, left, fielding for Kent at Beckenham in 2016

As of the end of August 2018, Denly has scored 27 first-class centuries, including two double-centuries and a score of 199. His highest individual score of 227 runs was made in June 2017 against Worcestershire at New Road.[23][40][41] Denly's first double-century was scored the previous season against Northants, surpassing his previous highest score of 199 made against Derbyshire in 2011.[42][43][44] His maiden first-class century, a score of 115 not out, was made in his first full season as a professional in 2007 against Hampshire, an innings in which Denly carried his bat.[45]

In July 2017 Denly, batting with Sean Dickson, made 182 runs in a second wicket partnership of 382 runs against Northants at Beckenham. This set a new Kent record for any partnership in first-class cricket, surpassing the previous record of 368 runs set in 1990.[46][47]

He has made a further eight List A centuries and four in Twenty20 matches. He set the Kent record for the highest individual score in a Twenty20 match with a score of 116 not out made in July 2017 against Surrey at The Oval. During the same match he and Daniel Bell-Drummond set the record for any wicket partnership for the county, scoring 163 runs for the first wicket.[48][49] He broke his own record in August 2017, scoring 127 against Essex at Chelmsford. Remarkably during the same match, Denly and Bell-Drummond again broke the county's record partnership for any wicket, this time adding 207 for the first wicket. This was also a world record opening partnership in Twenty20 cricket, and the third highest in the world for any wicket in the format.[50] In May 2018 Denly went on to set the Kent record for the highest individual score in List A cricket, scoring 150 not out against Glamorgan at Canterbury.[51]

Described as an "occasional"[31] leg-spin bowler, Denly's best bowling figures in first-class cricket of 4/36 were taken during the 2018 season against Derbyshire at Derby, the first time he had taken four wickets in a first-class innings.[52][53] Earlier in the same season he had taken 3/24 against Warwickshire at Tunbridge Wells with the wickets taken in six balls at the end of Warwickshire's second innings to win the match for Kent.[54] In June of the same season he took a hat-trick in Kent's opening T20 match of the season, having scored his fourth T20 century during Kent's innings.[31] This was the first time in professional T20 cricket that a player had scored a century and taken a hat-trick in the same match.[32][33]

As of 1 September 2018

Batting Bowling (innings)
Score Fixture Venue Season Analysis Fixture Venue Season
First-class 227 Kent v Worcestershire Worcester 2017 4/36 Kent v Warwickshire Derby 2018
List A 150 not out Kent v Glamorgan Canterbury 2018 4/35 Kent v Jamaica North Sound, Antigua 2017/18
T20 127 Kent v Essex Chelmsford 2017 3/25 Kent v Middlesex Beckenham 2018

References

  1. ↑ Joe Denly – player profile, CricInfo. Retrieved 2016-10-31.
  2. ↑ Who are the best young managers in the Non-League game?, The Non-League Paper, 2018-06-20. Retrieved 2018-06-25.
  3. ↑ Gore Court Batting 2006, CricketArchive. Retrieved 2007-07-13
  4. ↑ Kent star Denly defies Aussie duo, BBC Sport, 2007-05-23, Retrieved 2007-05-23.
  5. ↑ Howells K (2008) Kevin Howells' team of the season, BBC Sport, 2008-09-25. Retrieved 2009-08-17.
  6. ↑ Berry S (2009) Joe Denly aiming to put England on to the front foot, Daily Telegraph, 2009-08-29. Retrieved 2016-10-31.
  7. ↑ Wu A (2010) Ashes dream turns to dust – England discard hits Sydney grade scene, Sydney Morning Herald, 2010-10-29. Retrieved 2016-10-31.
  8. ↑ Braid M (2010) Denly hopes to join in English run parade. Sydney Morning Herald, 2010-12-09. Retrieved 2016-10-31.
  9. ↑ Callinan D (2016) Newcastle Steel defeated by Daniel Smith and Joe Denly-inspired Sydney Cricket Club in NSW Premier Twenty20 Cup, Newcastle Herald, 2016-10-30. Retrieved 2016-10-31.
  10. ↑ Pietersen out of England ODI squad, Cricinfo, 2009-08-17. Retrieved 2009-08-17.
  11. ↑ Ireland v England at Belfast, 2009, CricInfo, 2009-08-27. Retrieved 2009-08-30.
  12. ↑ MacPherson W (2018) Joe Denly: Once dropped as a plodder, he is now the destroyer for the Sydney Sixers, Evening Standard, 2018-04-10. Retrieved 2018-04-19.
  13. ↑ Joe Denly has signed for Middlesex, Middlesex County Cricket Club, 2011-09-28. Retrieved 2013-09-08.Archived, 2012-04-03.
  14. ↑ Former England batsman Joe Denly agrees return to Kent Cricket after being released by Middlesex, Kent Online, 2014-10-30. Retrieved 2016-05-16.
  15. ↑ Stokes M (2016) Kent batsman Joe Denly says his unbeaten double century against Northamptonshire was among the best knocks of his career, Kent Online, 2016-05-18. Retrieved 2016-10-31.
  16. ↑ Hoad A (2016) Kent batsman Joe Denly has signed a long-term contract extension., Kent Online, 2016-08-15. Retrieved 2016-10-31.
  17. ↑ Dickson double and late drama changes game, CricInfo, 2016-05-24. Retrieved 2016-10-31.
  18. ↑ Tredwell, Bell-Drummond complete great Kent comeback, CricInfo, 2016-05-25. Retrieved 2016-10-31.
  19. ↑ Hoad A (2016) Kent beat Derbyshire by seven wickets in the Specsavers County Championship thanks to career bests by Sean Dickson and Calum Haggett, Kent Online, 2016-05-25. Retrieved 2016-10-31.
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  22. ↑ Joe Denly: Kent batsman signs new contract with Division Two club, BBC Sport, 2017-08-15. Retrieved 2017-07-17.
  23. 1 2 Worcestershire v Kent: Joe Denly hits career-best double century as hosts face stiff target, BBC Sport, 2017-06-21. Retrieved 2017-06-23.
  24. ↑ Mohammad Isam (2017) Lewis helps Dhaka scale their highest BPL chase, CricInfo, 2017-11-27. Retrieved 2017-11-27.
  25. ↑ Mohammad Isam (2017) Gayle's record 146* carries Rangpur to maiden title, CricInfo, 2017-12-12. Retrieved 2018-02-05.
  26. ↑ Bangladesh Premier League, 2017/18 - Dhaka Dynamites / Batting And Bowling Averages, CricInfo. Retrieved 2018-02-05.
  27. ↑ Sydney Sixers sign Denly, Sydney Sixers. Retrieved 2018-01-25.
  28. ↑ 36th Match (N), Big Bash League at Sydney, Jan 23 2018, CricInfo. Retrieved 2018-01-25.
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  30. 1 2 Denly returns hunting silverware, Sydney Sixers, 2018-09-19. Retrieved 2018-09-22.
  31. 1 2 3 Joe Denly demolishes Surrey with century and hat-trick, CricInfo, 2018-07-06. Retrieved 2018-07-07.
  32. 1 2 Spitfires sink Surrey as Denly dominates, Kent County Cricket Club, 2018-07-06. Retrieved 2018-07-07.
  33. 1 2 von Behr P (2018) Joe Denly becomes first man to score century and take a hat-trick in the same T20 match, The Times, 2018-07-07. Retrieved 2018-07-07.
  34. 1 2 England call up Rory Burns, Joe Denly & Olly Stone for Sri Lanka tour, BBC Sport, 2018-09-21. Retrieved 2018-09-22.
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  36. ↑ Rory Burns, Olly Stone, Joe Denly named in Sri Lanka Test squad, CricInfo, 2018-09-21. Retrieved 2018-09-21.
  37. ↑ Martin A 92018) England select Rory Burns and Joe Denly for Sri Lanka Test series, The Guardian, 2018-09-21. Retrieved 2018-09-22.
  38. ↑ Joe Denly returns to Sydney Sixers after prolific T20 season, ESPN, 2018-09-19. Retrieved 2018-09-21.
  39. ↑ Joe Denly named Players' Player of the Year at PCA awards, BBC Sport, 2018-10-04. Retrieved 2018-10-05.
  40. ↑ Denly's career-best 227* makes Worcestershire swelter, CricInfo, 2017-06-21. Retrieved 2017-07-15.
  41. ↑ Ammon E (2017) Denly’s 227 puts Kent in control, The Times, 2017-06-22. Retrieved 2017-07-15.
  42. ↑ Selvey M (2016) Kent’s Joe Denly dominates Northants but pitch has draw written all over it, The Guardian, 2016-05-16. Retrieved 2017-07-15.
  43. ↑ County Championship: Kent's Joe Denly hits double ton but Northants fight back, BBC Sport, 2016-05-16. Retrieved 2017-07-15.
  44. ↑ Kent's Denly falls short of double ton against Derbyshire, BBC Sport, 2011-09-09. Retrieved 2017-07-15.
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  46. ↑ Dickson's 318 tops day of Kent records, CricInfo, 2017-07-04. Retrieved 2017-07-04.
  47. ↑ Milton H (2016) 'Team Records' in Reid J (ed) 2016 Kent County Cricket Club Annual, pp.199–202, Canterbury: Kent County Cricket Club
  48. ↑ Hoad A (2017) Joe Denly hits an unbeaten century as Kent Spitfires beat Surrey by eight wickets in NatWest T20 Blast South Group, Kent Online, 2017-07-14. Retrieved 2017-07-15.
  49. ↑ Mitchell B (2017) T20 Blast: Lancashire v Yorkshire ends in a tie, Joe Denly & Clint McKay shine, BBC Sport, 2017-07-14. Retrieved 2017-07-15.
  50. ↑ World-record opening stand for Denly and Bell-Drummond, CricInfo, 2017-08-17. Retrieved 2017-08-17.
  51. ↑ One-Day Cup: Denly stars as Kent beat Glamorgan by four wickets, BBC Sport, 2018-05-25. Retrieved 2018-05-25.
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  53. ↑ Joe Denly shakes off illness to help spin out Derbyshire, CricInfo, 2018-09-01. Retrieved 2018-09-01.
  54. ↑ Edwards P (2018) Harry Podmore and Joe Denly deny Warwickshire's bid to break 93-year-old record, CricInfo, 2018-06-23. Retrieved 2018-07-07.
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