Liam Plunkett – Profile, Stats & Recent Form

Personal details

Full nameLiam Edward Plunkett

Born6 Apr 1985

Age41 Years

NationalityEnglish

RoleBowler/Right-arm fast, Right-handed Batsman

BattingRight Hand Bat

BowlingRight Arm Fast

Height6 ft 3 in (1.91 m)

Career at a glance

Format	M	Runs	Avg	SR	Wkts	Econ
Test	13	238	15.86	46.75	41	3.46
ODI	89	646	20.83	102.70	135	5.81
T20I	22	42	6.00	123.52	25	7.90
T20	169	835	14.15	130.26	154	8.16
List A	214	1675	20.42	100.78	282	5.54
First-class	158	4378	24.73	–	453	3.62
T10	8	11	11.00	78.57	6	8.58

Debuts

TestPakistan vs England, Lahore 29 Nov 2005

ODIPakistan vs England. Lahore 10 Dec 2005

T20IEngland vs Sri Lanka, Southampton 15 Jun 2008

First Class Durham vs Durham UCCE, Durham -9 May 2003

T20Derbyshire vs Durham, Derby 23 Jun 2003

Family

RelationsMarie Plunkett (Mother), Alan Plunkett (Father)

Batting

Format	M	Inn	NO	Runs	HS	Avg	BF	SR	100	50	4s	6s	Ct
Test	13	20	5	238	55	15.86	509	46.75	0	1	31	0	3
ODI	89	50	19	646	56	20.83	629	102.70	0	1	53	18	26
T20I	22	11	4	42	18	6.00	34	123.52	0	0	3	1	7
T20	169	96	37	835	41	14.15	641	130.26	0	0	58	27	44
List A	214	132	50	1675	72	20.42	1662	100.78	0	3	0	0	64
First-class	158	216	39	4378	126	24.73	0	–	3	22	0	0	86
T10	8	2	1	11	8	11.00	14	78.57	0	0	1	0	1

Bowling

Format	M	Inn	Overs	Runs	Wkts	BBI	Avg	Econ	5W	10W
Test	13	25	443.1	1536	41	9/176	37.46	3.46	1	0
ODI	89	87	689.3	4010	135	5/52	29.70	5.81	1	0
T20I	22	22	79.2	627	25	3/21	25.08	7.90	0	0
T20	169	163	526	4296	154	5/31	27.89	8.16	1	0
List A	214	0	1539.5	8543	282	5/52	30.29	5.54	1	0
First-class	158	0	3984.5	14433	453	–	31.86	3.62	11	1
T10	8	7	12	103	6	2/8	17.17	8.58	0	0

By tournament

Tournament	M	Runs	HS	Avg	SR	Wkts	Econ
Indian Premier League	7	1	1	1.00	33.33	4	9.00
Bangladesh Premier League	12	34	17	11.33	154.55	9	9.15
Big Bash League	8	23	11	5.75	92.00	12	8.22
ICC Men's T20 World Cup	4	4	4	4.00	100.00	2	6.38
Vitality Blast	13	64	19	12.80	142.22	11	7.39
Abu Dhabi T10	–	–	–	–	–	–	–
County Championship	13	543	126	33.94	80.68	17	3.62
English One Day Cup	12	100	25	16.67	100.00	14	19.39
The Hundred Men's	1	0	0	–	–	0	14.00
ICC Champions Trophy	4	24	15	12.00	100.00	8	5.85
ICC Cricket World Cup	10	93	29	46.50	119.23	15	9.39
Major League Cricket	15	19	7	4.75	79.17	15	8.86

Against teams

Batting vs	Inn	Runs	HS	Avg	SR
West Indies	2	22	18	11.00	146.67
India	3	12	9	6.00	133.33
Sri Lanka	1	7	7	–	140.00
Pakistan	2	1	1	1.00	50.00
New Zealand	1	0	0	0.00	0.00
South Africa	2	0	0	0.00	0.00

Bowling vs	Inn	Wkts	Runs	Avg	Econ	SR
Pakistan	3	6	78	13.00	42.55	1.83
West Indies	4	5	108	21.60	7.28	17.80
Sri Lanka	4	5	111	22.20	7.93	16.80
South Africa	2	3	58	19.33	7.25	16.00
India	5	3	155	51.67	9.12	34.00
Australia	1	2	34	17.00	9.27	11.00
New Zealand	2	1	71	71.00	8.88	48.00
Afghanistan	1	0	12	–	3.00	–

Batting vs	Inn	Runs	HS	Avg	SR
New Zealand	8	166	44	55.33	126.72
Pakistan	5	103	56	20.60	76.30
Sri Lanka	8	97	29	24.25	140.58
Australia	10	84	24	12.00	89.36
India	9	80	26	11.43	78.43
West Indies	6	30	11	5.00	90.91
Bangladesh	1	27	27	–	300.00
South Africa	1	9	9	–	150.00
Ireland	1	3	3	–	60.00

Bowling vs	Inn	Wkts	Runs	Avg	Econ	SR
West Indies	14	26	645	24.81	5.69	26.15
Australia	17	25	728	29.12	6.54	26.72
New Zealand	8	16	390	24.38	6.55	22.31
Pakistan	13	16	637	39.81	10.11	23.63
India	11	16	501	31.31	10.22	18.38
Sri Lanka	11	14	557	39.79	6.53	36.57
Ireland	4	7	120	17.14	4.29	24.00
South Africa	3	6	143	23.83	7.53	19.00
Bangladesh	4	5	158	31.60	7.52	25.20

Batting vs	Inn	Runs	HS	Avg	SR	50
Sri Lanka	7	74	39	14.80	40.44	0
India	5	70	55	23.33	48.28	1
West Indies	4	57	44	19.00	71.25	0
Pakistan	4	37	28	9.25	36.63	0

Bowling vs	Inn	Wkts	Runs	Avg	Econ	SR
Sri Lanka	10	22	629	28.59	5.69	30.14
India	6	8	348	43.50	7.20	36.25
West Indies	6	7	315	45.00	3.54	76.29
Pakistan	3	4	244	61.00	3.98	92.00

Last 10 innings · batting

7*vs SA-L

20vs WI-L

7*vs IND-L

13*vs SA-L

12*vs WI-L

7vs MINY

3*vs WF

3*vs SSS

0vs TSK

3vs AFI

T20 vs SA-L13 Oct 2026 · Not out 7*(5) T20 vs WI-L7 Oct 2026 · b D Bravo 20(16) T20 vs IND-L4 Oct 2026 · Not out 7*(6) T20 vs SA-L24 Jul 2025 · Not out 13*(15) T20 vs WI-L22 Jul 2025 · Not out 12*(9) T20 vs MINY10 Jul 2025 · c K Pollard b Rushil Ugarkar 7(7) T20 vs WF28 Jun 2025 · Not out 3*(3) T20 vs SSS23 Sep 2024 · Not out 3*(5) T20 vs TSK10 Jul 2024 · b Mohammad Mohsin 0(1) T10 vs AFI23 Aug 2023 · c R Uthappa b RR Emrit 3(6)

Last 10 innings · bowling

1/33vs AUS-L

3/35vs SA-L

0/13vs WI-L

0/9vs BAN-L

2/25vs IND-L

0/35vs SA-L

0/25vs WI-L

2/28vs PAK-L

0/10vs MINY

1/26vs SEO

T20 vs AUS-L14 Oct 2026 1/33 T20 vs SA-L13 Oct 2026 3/35 T20 vs WI-L7 Oct 2026 0/13 T20 vs BAN-L5 Oct 2026 0/9 T20 vs IND-L4 Oct 2026 2/25 T20 vs SA-L24 Jul 2025 0/35 T20 vs WI-L22 Jul 2025 0/25 T20 vs PAK-L18 Jul 2025 2/28 T20 vs MINY10 Jul 2025 0/10 T20 vs SEO1 Jul 2025 1/26

About Liam Plunkett

Liam Plunkett Biography

Liam Plunkett is an English cricketer, who was born on April 6th, 1985 in Middlesbrough, Yorkshire. He is predominantly a right arm fast bowler and plays as a right-hand batsman.

Background

Liam went to Nunthorpe Comprehensive when he was younger. He showed great interest in cricket from a young age which led to his admission into domestic cricket.

He played for England, Dolphins, Durham, Durham 2nd XI, Durham Cricket Board, England Lions, England Under-19s, Sylhet Sixers and Yorkshire.

He was a part of the Durham side when they won the County Championship for the first time in history, in 2008.

Debut

Plunkett’s Test debut was against Pakistan at Gaddafi Stadium on November 29, 2005, while his ODI debut came against the same team at the same venue on December 10, 2005 and his T20 debut was against Sri Lanka at The Rose Bowl in Southampton on June 15, 2006.

In the Test, Plunkett started off well by taking 3 wickets for 51 runs against Pakistan.

However, in the 2005-06 tour to India, his performance was largely unimpressive when he took out one wicket and scored one run in two innings.

Rise to Glory

Plunkett made his comeback to international cricket in 2014, after a few years of obscurity, and he went about making himself a fixture in the England side.

While he couldn’t really succeed to expected levels in the Test format, Plunkett has once again become a go-to bowler for England in limited-overs cricket.

He was the team’s highest wicket-taker in the ICC Champions Trophy in 2017, that was held in England.

Since his comeback, Plunkett has also made a few useful contributions with bat in in hand, as his power-hitting lower down the order has helped complement the ball-striking ability of the others ahead of him in the batting order.

Low Points

Plunkett has a very fluctuating performance in many of his seasons. Most of the times, he has been on the bench for half of the season.

In February 2007, he was banned from driving for 20 months due to drinking and driving. In 2012, he was convicted for a second offence and banned for 40 months.

Club Career

Plunkett played for Durham County Cricket Club, Dolphins cricket team, Yorkshire County Cricket Club and Sylhet Sixers.

He currently plies his trade for Yorkshire in English county cricket.

Records

Plunkett won the Man of the Match award in a T20 match against against Pakistan on 27th November, 2015.

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