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| Full name | Sebastian William Mead | ||||||||||||||
| Born | 3 February 1999 Winchester, Hampshire | ||||||||||||||
| Batting | Right-handed | ||||||||||||||
| Role | Wicket-keeper | ||||||||||||||
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| Years | Team | ||||||||||||||
| 2022 | Kent | ||||||||||||||
| 2023 | Berkshire | ||||||||||||||
| Only FC | 6 May 2022 Kent v Sri Lanka Development XI | ||||||||||||||
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Source:Cricinfo,7 May 2022 | |||||||||||||||
Sebastian William Mead (born 3 February 1999) is an English cricketer who made his first-class cricket debut for Kent County Cricket Club in May 2022. Mead is a right-handed batter who typically plays as a wicket-keeper.
Mead was born at Winchester in Hampshire,grew up at Longparish,and was educated at Marlborough College on a sport scholarship. [1] [2] He played cricket for the school XI for five years,captaining the college in 2017 when he scored 1,009 runs during the season,including a Marlborough record 214 not out, [a] [3] and was considered a candidate for the honour of Wisden's Schools Cricketer of the Year. [7] [8] [9] [10] His great-uncle Mike Griffith,who had been the last cricketer to score 1,000 runs in a season for Marlborough in 1961, [3] played more than 350 matches for Sussex County Cricket Club and was an England and Great Britain hockey international, [7] [11] whilst his great-grandfather Billy Griffith played three Test matches for England and captained Sussex. [12] Mead also played rackets at school,winning the under-18 Renny Cup championship at Queen's Club in 2016. [13] [14]
Mead made his debut for Kent in May 2022 in a first-class match against a Sri Lanka Development XI. [15] He scored a century on debut,making 106 not out to become the 14th player to score a century for Kent on their debut first-class appearance for the club and the seventh to do so in their first first-class match. [16] [17] [18] He had played age-group cricket for Hampshire sides and Second XI cricket for Hampshire,Somerset,Surrey and Warwickshire before impressing for Kent's Second XI at the start of the 2022 season. [19] [20] He also played for MCC Young Cricketers in the Second XI Championship in 2018 and 2019 and for Cape Town Cricket Club in the 2017/18 South African club season,spending two northern winters at Gary Kirsten's cricket academy in Cape Town. [2] [18]
During the 2023 cricket season Mead played for Berkshire County Cricket Club in the National Counties Championship. He made Second XI appearances for Somerset,Sussex and Derbyshire. [2]