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Full name Thomas Westley
Born March 13, 1989, Cambridge
Current age 19 years 115 days
Major teams Cambridgeshire,England Under-19s,Essex,Essex 2nd XI,Marylebone Cricket Club
Batting style Right-hand bat
Bowling style Right-arm offbreak
Batting and fielding averages
Mat
Inns
NO
Runs
HS
Ave
BF
SR
100
50
4s
6s
Ct
St
First-class
14
25
5
530
93*
26.50
1105
47.96
0
3
81
0
8
0
List A
3
2
0
37
36
18.50
47
78.72
0
0
4
0
0
0
Bowling averages
Mat
Inns
Balls
Runs
Wkts
BBI
BBM
Ave
Econ
SR
4w
5w
10
First-class
14
6
120
82
2
1/19
1/19
41.00
4.10
60.0
0
0
0
List A
3
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
Career statistics
First-class debut
Cambridge UCCE v Essex at Cambridge, May 9-11, 2007 scorecard
Last First-class
Middlesex v Essex at Lord's, Jun 6-9, 2008 scorecard
List A debut
Essex v Sri Lankans at Chelmsford, Jun 9, 2006 scorecard
Last List A
Northamptonshire v Essex at Northampton, Sep 16, 2007 scorecard
Profile
Tom Westley is a promising young batsman who joined the Essex Academy as a 14-year-old in 2003 and has since worked his way into the first-team squad. Made his first-team debut in the one-day tourist match against Sri Lanka at Chelmsford in June 2006. Despite struggling to make the runs in the 2nd XI that his talent dictates last season he did show good signs with the ball as an off-spin bowler. Westley went to the World Cricket Academy in Mumbai as part of a five-strong Academy contingent in February 2007 having visited Perth the previous December for three weeks on a Graham Gooch Scholarship. He impressed enough there and in the indoor nets upon his return to be asked to join up with the first-team on their pre-season tour to Dubai and Abu Dhabi (and also featured in several of the pre-season matches back home).
He has impressed many a wise judge at Essex (John Childs, Paul Grayson and Graham Gooch) with his ability with the bat and they also believe he can develop into a useful off-spinner to boot (match figures of 9-91 against Middlesex in the SEC was his most impressive performance either bat or ball last season). His chances have improved with the severe losses experienced by Essex to their batting order of late in Andy Flower (retirement), Ronnie Irani (retirement), Alastair Cook (England), Ravinder Bopara (likely England ODI in the summer) but they only place their faith in youth because they have confidence in it.
Cricinfo staff April 2007
