Daniel Bell-Drummond

Daniel Bell-Drummond

Personal information
Full name	Daniel James Bell-Drummond
Born	(1993-08-04) 4 August 1993 (age 23) Lewisham, London
Nickname	DBD, Deebs
Batting style	Right-handed
Bowling style	Right-arm medium-fast
Role	Batsman
Domestic team information
Years	Team
2011–	Kent (squad no. 23)
FC debut	18 May 2011 Kent v Loughborough MCCU
LA debut	31 July 2011 Kent v Worcestershire
Career statistics
Competition FC LA T20 Matches 72 60 45 Runs scored 3,980 2,229 1,095 Batting average 36.18 41.27 25.46 100s/50s 9/20 4/15 1/6 Top score 206* 171* 112* Balls bowled 41 12 – Wickets 0 0 – Bowling average – – – 5 wickets in innings – – – 10 wickets in match – n/a n/a Best bowling – – – Catches/stumpings 31/0 23/– 11/–
Source: CricInfo, 22 May 2017

Daniel James Bell-Drummond (born 4 August 1993) is an English professional cricketer, who plays for Kent County Cricket Club as an opening batsman. He has represented England at youth level and has played for the England Lions cricket team at senior level.

Bell-Drummond was born in Lewisham in south-east London in 1993. His parents are of Jamaican descent and he has described how watching both West Indian and English cricket home was a major infuence on his development. He was spotted by Kent County Cricket Club playing for Catford Wanderers as a seven-year-old and progressed through the county system, scoring his first century for the under-10 side aged just seven. He played for Kent age group teams, scoring centuries at every level, before joining the Cricket Academy at Kent where he was awarded the John Aitken Gary Trophy as the Academy Scholar of the Year in 2010. He signed a three-year professional contract with Kent in September 2010 at age 17.

Bell-Drummond won a scholarship to Millfield School and played cricket for the school team as well as for England at under–15, under–17 and under–19 levels, captaining the under–17 side against Sri Lanka in 2010. He completed his sixth form studies at the school in 2012 after signing his professional contract with Kent and was named the Young Wisden Schools Cricketer of the Year in the 2012 edition of Wisden after scoring over 800 runs for Millfield in 2011.

Having represented England and under-15 and under-17 levels, Bell-Drummond played for the England under-19 cricket team against Sri Lanka in 2010. He made his youth Test debut on 21 July 2010 at the County Ground, Northampton before scoring unbeaten 88 in the second youth Test later in the same month, aged only 16. He played in both under-19 Test matches and in four youth one-day international matches during England's return tour of Sri Lanka in January and February 2011.