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Full name | Aneurin Henry Thomas Donald | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born | Swansea, Wales | 20 December 1996||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Batting | Right-handed | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bowling | Right-arm off break | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Role | Batsman | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Domestic team information | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Years | Team | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
2014–2018 | Glamorgan (squad no. 12) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
2018 | →Hampshire (on loan) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
2019–2023 | Hampshire (squad no. 12) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
2023 | →Derbyshire (on loan) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
2024–present | Derbyshire | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
First-class debut | 23 September 2014 Glamorgan v Hampshire | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
List A debut | 26 July 2015 Glamorgan v Nottinghamshire | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Source:Cricinfo,30 September 2023 |
Aneurin Henry Thomas Donald (born 20 December 1996) is a Welsh cricketer who has played first-class cricket for Hampshire as a right-handed batsman and right-arm off spin bowler. [1] In December 2015 he was named in England's squad for the 2016 Under-19 Cricket World Cup. [2]
Donald initially learnt to play cricket at Gorseinon CC, [3] where his brother Gafyn still turns out for the 1st XI.
Donald progressed through the Glamorgan Cricket Academy,and spent a summer in Australia at the Darren Lehmann Cricket Academy,before moving back to his native Wales in 2016.
On 17 July 2016,Donald equalled the fastest ever double hundred in first-class cricket,off just 123 balls,eventually scoring 234 off 136 balls in an innings that was also his maiden County Championship hundred for Glamorgan. [4]
His form then suffered for the following two seasons,and by the 2018 season he was dropped from Glamorgan's County Championship and 50-over sides,but remained as a T20 opening batsman.
Offered a new three-year contract from 2019 to 2021 by Glamorgan,Donald who has ambitions to play for the England national side,decided for career reasons on 23 August 2018 to sign a two-year deal with Hampshire for the 2019 and 2020 seasons. As a result,Glamorgan offered Donald to Hampshire as a loan player for the remainder of the 2018 season,and he hence moved with immediate effect. [5]
In the 2019 season,Donald broke into the Hampshire County Championship side. In his first first-class game for Hampshire,he hit 75 from 56 balls against Warwickshire,and in July he took the same attack for 173 off 144 balls in a superb counterattacking innings from No. 6. He finished the season with 554 runs at 39.57 with a strike rate of 83.30.
In December 2019,Donald was ruled out of the 2020 cricket season,after tearing his anterior cruciate ligament. [6] in 2022 Donald was part of Hampshire's 2022 T20 Blast winning team. In 2023,Donald was loaned to Derbyshire. [7] . At the conclusion of the 2023 season it was announced that Donald would join Derbyshire permanently at the end of his Hampshire contract in October 2023. [8]
Donald is known for his exuberant and attacking playing style. In the 2016 Under-19 Cricket World Cup he played the first ever 'Scooping Slap Shot' in a match against Zimbabwe. [9]
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