Keaton Jennings

Personal information

Full name

Keaton Kent Jennings

Born

19 June 1992 (age 24)
Johannesburg, Transvaal Province, South Africa

Height

6 ft 1 in (1.85 m)

Batting style

Left-handed

Bowling style

Right-arm medium-fast

Role

Opening batsman

Relations

Ray Jennings (father)
Kenneth Jennings (uncle)
Dylan Jennings (brother)

International information

National side

England

Test debut (cap 675)

8 December 2016 v India

Last Test

16 December 2016 v India

Domestic team information

Years

Team

2011–2012

Gauteng

2012–present

Durham (squad no. 1)

Career statistics

Competition	Test	FC	LA	T20
Matches	2	76	31	30
Runs scored	167	4,561	800	350
Batting average	41.75	35.91	42.10	31.81
100s/50s	1/1	13/17	1/6	0/1
Top score	112	221*	101*	88
Balls bowled	30	902	372	456
Wickets	0	14	3	19
Bowling average	–	35.64	122.66	29.89
5 wickets in innings	–	0	0	0
10 wickets in match	–	0	n/a	n/a
Best bowling	–	2/8	1/9	4/37
Catches/stumpings	2/–	41/–	6/–	7/–

Source: CricketArchive, 27 February 2017

Keaton Kent Jennings (born 19 June 1992) is an English cricketer who plays for Durham and England. He is a left-handed opening batsman who also bowls right-arm fast-medium.

Jennings was born in Johannesburg, but also holds British citizenship through his mother, who was born in Sunderland. His father, Ray Jennings, played first-class cricket in South Africa from 1973/4 to 1992/3, with most of his playing career during the anti-apartheid sporting boycott of South Africa. Other first-class cricketers in the family include Jenning's uncle Kenneth Jennings, and his older brother Dylan Jennings (born 1979), who both played in South Africa.

Jennings spent the 2011 season in Durham, playing for Academy and Second XI teams. He made his first-class debut for Gauteng in December 2011 against Free State. He also played for the South Africa Under-19 cricket team, and was captain of the Under-19 team on its tour to England in 2011.

Although eligible to play for South Africa, he chose to play international cricket for England, and played his last game for Gauteng in March 2012. He arrived in the UK on 2 April 2012, meaning that he became eligible for England selection in April 2016 after a four-year residency period. He played Second XI cricket for Durham in 2012, and made his first team debut against Surrey in August 2012.

He had a successful season for Durham in 2016, scoring heavily with the bat, becoming the leading run-scorer, with 1,548 runs at a batting average of 64.5, including six centuries hundreds plus a double century against Yorkshire, and scoring 88 in the final of the 2016 NatWest t20 Blast competition. Jennings was selected as the County Championship player of the year by the Cricket Writers' Club, and joined the England Lions tour to the United Arab Emirates. Jennings was linked with a move away from Durham due to the club's financial problems, but he eventually agreed a new deal to stay at the club. Following his impressive form for Durham, and scoring a century on tour for the Lions, Jennings was called up to the senior England squad for the first time.

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