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Full name | Oliver Benjamin Cox | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born | Wordsley, West Midlands, England | 2 February 1992||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Height | 5 ft 10 in (1.78 m) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Batting | Right-handed | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Role | Wicket-keeper | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Years | Team | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
2009–2023 | Worcestershire (squad no. 10) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
2018 | Boost Defenders | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
2018/19 | Otago | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
2023 | →Leicestershire (on loan) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
FC debut | 16 September 2009 Worcestershire v Somerset | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
LA debut | 19 July 2010 Worcestershire v Sussex | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Source:CricInfo,30 September 2023 |
Oliver Benjamin Cox (born 2 February 1992) is an English cricketer who plays county cricket for Worcestershire as right-handed batsman and wicket-keeper.
Cox has been associated with Worcestershire for some years,having played at Under-13,Under-15 and Under-17 level,although not originally as a wicket-keeper. [1]
He captained the Under-17 side against Somerset U-17s in July 2009,scoring exactly 100. [2]
Cox was called up to make his first-class debut,aged 17,in Worcestershire's penultimate County Championship match of 2009,against Somerset at Taunton. He scored 61 in his only innings of a drawn match (sharing a century partnership with Daryl Mitchell,who scored 298);keeping wicket,his first first-class dismissal was that of Marcus Trescothick,stumped off the bowling of Moeen Ali for 72. [3] [4] He was awarded a four-year contract by Worcestershire later that year. [5]
Cox did not establish himself as Worcestershire's first choice wicket-keeper until 2014 when he was 22 years of age. In that season he scored his first first-class century (against Essex) and was described by former-England wicket-keeper James Foster as "...one of the best young keepers I have ever seen." [6] [7]
In 2018 Vitality Blast Finals day,Cox played a key part in Worcestershire winning their first Vitality T20 Blast trophy. In the Semi-Final,against Lancashire he scored 55* and in the final,against Sussex made 46*,scoring the winning runs. He was made Player of the Match in both games to become to first player to receive two such awards in one day . [8]
In December 2018,he signed with Otago cricket team to play in the 2018–19 Super Smash T20 tournament in New Zealand. [9]
In The 2021 Vitality Blast Campaign,Ben Cox was appointed captain for the competition due to the absence of Moeen Ali.
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