Jordan Cox (cricketer)

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Jordan Cox
Personal information
Full nameJordan Matthew Cox
Born (2000-10-21) 21 October 2000 (age 21)
Margate, Kent[a]
BattingRight-handed
BowlingRight-arm off-break[1]
RoleWicket-keeper
Domestic team information
YearsTeam
2019–Kent (squad no. 22)
2021/22Hobart Hurricanes
FC debut13 July 2019 Kent v Hampshire
Only LA27 April 2019 Kent v Pakistanis
Career statistics
Competition FC LA T20
Matches 20 1 30
Runs scored 974 21 510
Batting average 32.46 21.00 31.87
100s/50s 1/4 0/0 0/3
Top score 238* 21 64
Catches/stumpings 17/– 1/– 21/4
Source: Cricinfo, 8 December 2021

Jordan Matthew Cox (born 21 October 2000) is an English professional cricketer.[2] He signed his first professional contract with Kent County Cricket Club in October 2018, having joined the county club at age 10, played for them at age-group levels and been a member of the club's academy programme, winning the John Aitken Gray award as the best academy scholar in 2018.[3][4]

Cox has played for the England under-19 cricket team, including at the 2020 under-19 World Cup. Along with Jack Leaning he set a new highest partnership for any wicket for Kent in 2020, scoring 238 not out in an unbroken partnership of 423 runs against Sussex at Canterbury.

Early life[]

Cox was born at Margate in Kent[5] and educated at Wellesley House School and Felsted School. He first played for Kent's Second XI in 2017.[6][7][8][9] He played for the London and East team in the ECB Super-4s developmental T20 competition in 2018 and was named player of the tournament.[4] In early 2019 he played for the England under-19 cricket team on their tour of Bangladesh.[8][10] In club cricket he plays for in the Kent Cricket League.[3]

Cricket career[]

After scoring a century in a 50-over Second XI friendly in April 2019 he made his List A cricket debut on 27 April 2019 against the touring Pakistanis, scoring 21 runs.[11] Following a series of good batting performances, including scoring two centuries, for the Second XI during the 2019 season, Cox made his first-class cricket debut in July against Hampshire and was called into the England under-19 squad for a series of matches against India and Bangladesh during August.[12][13] He made his Twenty20 debut later the same month against Somerset in the 2019 t20 Blast.[14]

After finishing a tri-series of matches in December 2019 against West Indies and Sri Lanka under-19s as England under-19's leading run scorer,[15] Cox was named in England's squad for the 2020 Under-19 Cricket World Cup in South Africa the following month.[16]

In August 2020, Cox scored his maiden century in first-class cricket against Sussex at Canterbury in the second round of matches of the 2020 Bob Willis Trophy. Cox went on to finish the innings unbeaten on 238 in a Kent record partnership for any wicket of 423 runs with Jack Leaning.[17][18][19][20][b] Cox's century was the first scored in England by a player born in the 2000s.[21] Cox was subsequently dropped for Kent's next match after having posed for photographs with young fans of the club, a breach of club medical protocols put in place during the COVID-19 pandemic.[21][22] Later in the year Cox signed a contract extension with Kent, extending his contract until the end of the 2023 season.[23]

Notes[]

  1. ^ CricInfo originally listed Cox's birth place as Portsmouth. Kent sources, CricketArchive and Wisden all list it as Margate and CricInfo has now changed its listing. After Cox's double century innings a number of media reports used the information from CricInfo to wrongly attribute his place of birth.
  2. ^ Kent's innings had to end after 120 overs due to regulations in place in the 2020 Bob Willis Trophy to limit the length of first innings during the COVID-19 pandemic.[19][20]

References[]

  1. ^ Jordan Cox, Wisden. Retrieved 2019-04-27.
  2. ^ Jordan Cox, CricInfo. Retrieved 2019-04-27.
  3. ^ a b Kent academy youngster Jordan Cox signs first professional contract with the county, Kent Online, 2018-10-17. Retrieved 2019-04-27.
  4. ^ a b Hogwood C (2019) Kent teenage starlet Jordan Cox hits superb century, Kent Online, 2019-04-12. Retrieved 2019-04-27.
  5. ^ Kent County Cricket Club Annual 2019, p.30. Canterbury: Kent County Cricket Club.
  6. ^ Kent County Cricket Club Annual 2018, p.52. Canterbury: Kent County Cricket Club.
  7. ^ Jordan Cox, Kent County Cricket Club. Retrieved 2019-05-08.
  8. ^ a b Jordan Cox, CricketArchive. Retrieved 2019-04-27.
  9. ^ Academy keeper Jordan Cox takes eight catches in an innings, Kent County Cricket Club, 2016-08-30. Retrieved 2019-04-27.
  10. ^ Cox included in Young Lions tour squad, Kent County Cricket Club, 2019-01-09. Retrieved 2019-04-27.
  11. ^ Imad Wasim fires Pakistan to comprehensive win in opening tour game, CricInfo, 2019-04-27. Retrieved 2019-04-27.
  12. ^ Cox called up to England U19 squad, Kent County Cricket Club, 2019-07-10. Retrieved 2019-07-12.
  13. ^ Hogwood C (2019) Kent call-up Jordan Cox in the absence of Zak Crawley versus Hampshire, Kent Online, 2019-07-12. Retrieved 2019-07-12.
  14. ^ Hopps D (2019) Imran Qayyum haul leads Kent to victory over Somerset, CricInfo, 2019-07-20. Retrieved 2019-07-21.
  15. ^ Kent County Cricket Club [KentCricket] 77 more runs for Jordan Cox against Sri Lanka U-19s