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| Born | 14 October 1990 Whitehaven, Cumbria, England | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 6 ft 4 in (1.93 m) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Batting | Right-handed | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Bowling | Right-arm medium | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Role | All-rounder | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Relations | Graham Clark (brother) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Years | Team | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2010–2018 | Lancashire (squad no. 16) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2018/19 | Hobart Hurricanes | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2019–present | Surrey (squad no. 16) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2021 | Oval Invincibles | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2024 | Northern Superchargers | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| First-class debut | 26 April 2015 Lancashire v Kent | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| List A debut | 4 September 2010 Lancashire v Worcestershire | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Source:ESPNcricinfo,29 September 2024 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Jordan Clark (born 14 October 1990) is an English cricketer who plays for Surrey. Clark is a right-handed batsman who bowls right-arm medium pace,and occasionally fields as a wicket-keeper. He was born in Whitehaven,Cumbria and was educated at Sedbergh School. [1]
Clark made his debut for Cumberland in the 2007 Minor Counties Championship against Norfolk. The following season he played two further matches in that competition,against Buckinghamshire and Norfolk again. [2] Clark joined Lancashire's Academy in 2008; [3] after two years in the academy,he was given a scholarship with Lancashire in January 2010. [4] Having represented the Lancashire Second XI in since 2008, [5] Clark made his debut for Lancashire in Lancashire's last List A match in the 2010 Clydesdale Bank 40 against Worcestershire. [6] [7] He scored 32 runs before being dismissed by Jack Shantry. [8] In the winter of 2010/11 Clark suffered a stress fracture to the back. [1]
At the start of the 2011 season,Clark's scholarship was renewed [9] and,in June,he made his Twenty20 debut. He scored 19 runs from 11 balls as Lancashire tied with Derbyshire. [10] In October Clark signed his first full-time professional contract with Lancashire. [11]
On 24 April 2013 in a second XI game for Lancashire against Yorkshire at North Marine Road Ground,Scarborough,he became only the fifth player to hit six sixes off an over in a professional game,scoring the runs against left-arm spinner Gurman Randhawa. [12]
On 22 July 2018,Clark removed England captain Joe Root,New Zealand captain Kane Williamson,and England batsman Jonny Bairstow in consecutive balls to secure a hat-trick in the County Championship roses match against Yorkshire. [13] Clark took 5–58 in this innings,his maiden first-class 5 wicket haul.
In September 2018,he was named in the Hobart Hurricanes' squad for the 2018 Abu Dhabi T20 Trophy. [14] Having scored more than 5,000 runs and taken over 150 wickets for Lancashire,he moved to Surrey in 2019, [15] and was described as the "underestimated lynchpin" of the side that won back-to-back County Championship titles in 2022 and 2023. [16]