Gary Ballance

Gary Ballance Biography

Gary Ballance, born in Harare, went onto play at the Under-19 level for Zimbabwe. But he migrated to England in search of greener pastures. He played in Second XI Championship games before going onto play for Derbyshire in a few Pro40 matches. His uncle and former Zimbabwe captain, David Houghton was the director of Derbyshire then.

By the end of 2007 he left Derbyshire and joined Yorkshire academy. He made his County debut for them back in 2008. However, it was only in 2011 did Balance start to perform well in the County circuit. Impressive performances for England Lions saw him make his One-Day International (ODI) debut in 2013 against Ireland at Dublin.

Ballance got a chance to adorn a first Test cap in the final Test of the Ashes series in 2013-14, where he looked somewhat out of his depth against Mitchell Johnson. But in his defence, senior players in the English camp as well found Johnson too hot to handle, during that series.

It was during the Test series against Sri Lanka in 2014 did Ballance make his mark in Tests. He made a fine hundred at Lord’s. Essentially a back-foot player, Ballance has an excellent assortment of strokes in his repertoire, but excels square of the wicket on both sides.

Ballance went on to assert his dominance at the No. 3 position after scoring heavily in the series against West Indies in April 2015, but a string of poor scores meant that he lost his place in the side and consequently was not given a central contract by ECB for 2015-16.

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Gary Ballance Batting & Fielding Averages

Career	M	In	R	NO	HS	Avg	BF	SR	100s	50s	4s	6s	Ct	St
Test	23	42	1498	2	156	37.45	3176	47.16	4	7	195	8	22	0
ODIs	16	15	297	1	79	21.21	443	67.04	0	2	21	1	8	0
T20s	0	--	--	--		--	--	--	--	--	--	--	--	--
World Cup	4	4	36	0	10	9.000	71	50.70	0	0	3	0	1	0

Gary Ballance Bowling Averages

Career	M	B	R	W	Avg	EC	SR	5WI	10WM	BBI	BBM
Test	23	12	5	0	--	2.500	--	0	--
ODIs	16	--	--	--	--	--	--	--	--
T20s	0	--	--	--	--	--	--	--	--
World Cup	4	--	--	--	--	--	--	--	--		--

Gary Ballance Career statistics

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