England Check opener Zak Crawley has signed a contract extension together with his county membership Kent that runs by means of to the tip of the 2025 season.
The 26-year-old Kent academy product made his debut in 2017 and has registered 147 appearances for the county to this point, scoring greater than 6,000 runs.
That has included 10 centuries, most just lately a 238 in opposition to Somerset in a Vitality County Championship match in Might.
“I absolutely love playing for my county and it was another easy decision to stay here for a further year,” Crawley mentioned.
“I’m looking forward to being available for Kent as much as I can next year and putting in performances wearing the White Horse in multiple formats.”
Kent director of cricket Simon Prepare dinner mentioned: “When he is accessible, Zak elevates our top-order batting and he’s in fact an excellent position mannequin for our younger batters regardless of himself solely being 26.
“I’m delighted that Zak has extended his Kent contract for a further year as we begin to plan for the 2025 season and beyond.”
Crawley is about to return to the England fold later this month, having been named within the touring squad for the three-Check collection in Pakistan.
The Kent batter missed the collection in opposition to Sri Lanka on the again finish of the summer season, changed by Dan Lawrence on the high of the order, after sustaining a damaged finger within the third-Check win over West Indies at Edgbaston.
England’s tour of Pakistan commences with the primary Check in Multan on Monday.
England squad to tour Pakistan
Ben Stokes (Durham, captain), Rehan Ahmed (Leicestershire), Gus Atkinson (Surrey), Shoaib Bashir (Somerset), Harry Brook (Yorkshire), Brydon Carse (Durham), Jordan Cox (Essex), Zak Crawley (Kent), Ben Duckett (Nottinghamshire), Josh Hull (Leicestershire), Jack Leach (Somerset), Ollie Pope (Surrey), Matthew Potts (Durham), Joe Root (Yorkshire), Jamie Smith (Surrey), Olly Stone (Nottinghamshire), Chris Woakes (Warwickshire).
England’s 2024 tour of Pakistan – collection schedule:
The Pakistan Cricket Board have introduced the total match schedule for the lads’s Check collection in opposition to England in October.
- First Check, Multan – October 7-11
- Second Check, Multan – October 15-19
- Third Check, Rawalpindi – October 24-28
The three-Check tour begins in Multan for the primary Check that can happen from October 7-11. The second Check stays in Multan following a revised plan from October 15-19.
The third Check shall be in Rawalpindi from October 24-28.
The collection varieties a part of the ICC World Check Championship 2023-25 and would be the second time the England males’s crew have performed a Check collection in Pakistan within the final two years, with England having gained the final collection 3-0 in December 2022.
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