Ollie Pope Happy Birthday- The Emerging Wicketkeeper-Batsman

Oliver John Douglas Pope is an English professional cricketer who plays for the England cricket team and Surrey County Cricket Club. He is a right-handed batsman who occasionally plays as a wicket-keeper.

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Ollie Pope is a budding wicketkeeper-batsman with all the traits of a modern-day cricketer:

Pope is innovative, fit, agile, and powerful. The 24-year-old cricketer rose through the ranks of age-group cricket. And reached the peak of his powers in the 2017 season for Surrey. Excelling with the bat in all three formats, in the era of shorter formats. Pope’s intelligent batting in the T20s was praising across the English circuit.

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Pope scored his maiden hundred in South Africa in January 2020, has struggled to convert his starts this year and his best score before Friday’s 81-run knock was a 34 in Chennai against India in February.

Dislocated shoulder in the third Test against Pakistan-

Reflecting on his dislocated shoulder in the third Test against Pakistan in August 2020 that kept him out the remainder of the year, he said “It’s been a stop-start career so far, I made my debut back probably nearly four years ago, I’ve been in and out and had shoulder operations.”

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“Reminds you to do everything possible to stay in the park firstly, for the last thing you want to do is give someone your spot,” Pope said.

Pope, who averages 101.8 in 19 innings at The Oval for Surrey, rued missing out on a “dream” century.