Jaydn Kennick Denly (born 5 January 2006) is an English
cricket
Cricket is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of eleven players on a field at the centre of which is a pitch with a wicket at each end, each comprising two bails balanced on three stumps. The batting side scores runs by striki ...
er who plays for
Kent County Cricket Club
Kent County Cricket Club is one of the eighteen first-class county clubs within the domestic cricket structure of England and Wales. It represents the historic county of Kent. A club representing the county was first founded in 1842 but Ke ...
. He is a left-handed batsman and left-arm off-break bowler. He made his
List A cricket debut for Kent on 11 August 2023, against
Surrey
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. He is the nephew of
Joe Denly.
Early life
Denly attended school at
The Canterbury Academy in Kent. He began playing for the Kent Second XI in 2022, at 16 years-of-age.
Career
Denly joined the Kent first team squad in August 2023 as a 17 year-old. He made his debut in
List-A cricket against
Surrey
Surrey () is a ceremonial and non-metropolitan county in South East England, bordering Greater London to the south west. Surrey has a large rural area, and several significant urban areas which form part of the Greater London Built-up Area. ...
on 11 August 2023, and took a wicket with his third ball, clean bowling
Cameron Steel in a wicket maiden.
He played in the same side as his uncle
Joe Denly for the first time on 20 August 2023, against
Essex, a match in which he took a wicket, a catch, enacted a run out, and scored 37 with the bat. They became the first uncle and nephew to appear in the same Kent side since
Fuller Pilch and
William Pilch in the nineteenth century.
On 1 November 2023 Denly signed his first professional contract with Kent. He made his
first-class debut on 12 April 2024, playing against
Essex in the
2024 County Championship.
He signed a two-year contract extension with Kent in October 2024.
International career
In 2023, Denly opened the batting for the
England national under-19 cricket team in two under-19 test matches against
Australia U19 scoring two half-centuries.
Personal life
The son of football manager Sam Denly, he is the nephew of current Kent and former England cricketer
Joe Denly.
References
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2006 births
Living people
English cricketers
Kent cricketers
Cricketers from Canterbury