Michael Gregory Kerran Burgess (born 8 July 1994) 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

Warwickshire County Cricket Club Warwickshire County Cricket Club is one of eighteen first-class county clubs within the domestic cricket structure of England and Wales. It represents the historic county of Warwickshire. Its T20 team is called the Birmingham Bears. Founde ...

. A wicketkeeper batsman, Burgess came through the Surrey Academy, making a total of 31 appearances at 2nd XI level between 2011 and 2013. He was educated at Homefield Preparatory and

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in Surrey, and at

Loughborough University Loughborough University (abbreviated as ''Lough'' or ''Lboro'' for post-nominals) is a public research university in the market town of Loughborough, Leicestershire, England. It has been a university since 1966, but it dates back to 1909, when L ...

, where he obtained an Upper Second Class honours BSc in Sports and Exercise Science. Burgess made his

first-class cricket First-class cricket, along with List A cricket and Twenty20 cricket, is one of the highest-standard forms of cricket. A first-class match is one of three or more days' scheduled duration between two sides of eleven players each and is officiall ...

debut for Loughborough MCCU against Sussex at Hove. In April 2015 in a non first-class game Burgess scored 116 against a

Kent Kent is a county in South East England and one of the home counties. It borders Greater London to the north-west, Surrey to the west and East Sussex to the south-west, and Essex to the north across the estuary of the River Thames; it faces ...

attack including first XI players Matt Coles and

Adam Riley Adam Edward Nicholas Riley (born 23 March 1992) is an English former professional cricketer who played for Kent County Cricket Club between 2011 and 2019. Riley played as an off break bowler who also played for the England Lions team and for ...

. Later than year he made his

List A cricket List A cricket is a classification of the limited-overs (one-day) form of the sport of cricket, with games lasting up to eight hours. List A cricket includes One Day International (ODI) matches and various domestic competitions in which the numbe ...

debut for

Leicestershire Leicestershire ( ; postal abbreviation Leics.) is a ceremonial and non-metropolitan county in the East Midlands, England. The county borders Nottinghamshire to the north, Lincolnshire to the north-east, Rutland to the east, Northamptonshire t ...

vs. Northamptonshire, in his second list A match he was again run out on 49 vs. Gloucestershire. In May 2016 Burgess scored 98 against the touring Sri Lankans in a first-class match. He was released by Leicestershire at the end of the 2016 season, joining Sussex County Cricket Club on a non contract basis in March 2017. A series of good performances with bat and gloves in both red and white ball formats led to the award of a one-year contract in August of that year. This was promptly extended for a further year after he hit a career-best 146 v

Nottinghamshire Nottinghamshire (; abbreviated Notts.) is a landlocked county in the East Midlands region of England, bordering South Yorkshire to the north-west, Lincolnshire to the east, Leicestershire to the south, and Derbyshire to the west. The traditi ...

in the final County Championship match of the season at Hove. He moved to Warwickshire in May 2019, his opportunities at Sussex being limited by Ben Brown, establishing himself as their first-choice keeper in all three formats in 2021. He started the 2022 summer with a career-best 178 against Surrey. Burgess played club cricket for Cheam and Reigate Priory in the ECB Premier Division of the Surrey Championships and for Adelaide University in the South Australian Cricket Association.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Burgess, Michael 1994 births Living people English cricketers Cricketers from Epsom Leicestershire cricketers Loughborough MCCU cricketers Sussex cricketers Warwickshire cricketers Marylebone Cricket Club cricketers Wicket-keepers