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Adam Lyth (born 25 September 1987) is an English
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er, who has played for
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since 2007. He is a left-handed opening batsman.


Career


Domestic career

Born 25 September 1987,
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, North Yorkshire, Lyth made his first-team debut for Yorkshire in a
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match in 2006, and his first-class debut in May 2007, against
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. He was with the England Under-16 squad to South Africa, and the England U-19 squad to Malaysia and India, and home against Pakistan. In the 2008 season, Lyth scored 645 runs in the
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, won the Yorkshire County Cricket Club Young Player of the Year award, and signed a three-year contract with Yorkshire at the end of the season. On 24 August 2010, Lyth was awarded his
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on his home ground at
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, before the start of Yorkshire's County Championship match against
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. At the County Championship match against
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at
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in July 2012, Lyth created a county record, by becoming the first Yorkshire batsman to score over 200 runs, whilst carrying his bat through an entire innings. He also totalled a first-class career best of 248 not out. In 2014 Lyth enjoyed his finest year, scoring 1489 Championship runs, including six centuries, at an average of 67.68. On 17 August 2017, Lyth scored the highest ever individual score in the
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. He scored 161 from 73 deliveries, which consisted of 20 fours and 7 sixes, against
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. He built an opening partnership of 127 runs with
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.
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won by 124 runs. Lyth has also become an increasingly useful bowler in the T20 format and took a career best 5 for 31 against
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in the 2019 T20 Blast and in the process recorded the best ever T20 bowling figures at
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. In the 2020 PSL Playoffs, Adam Lyth was named replacement for the West Indian player
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. He was signed by Northern Superchargers for The Hundred 2021 tournament. In April 2022, he was bought by the
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for the 2022 season of The Hundred.


International career

In March 2015, Lyth was named in the England Test squad for the tour of the West Indies, but did not play in the series, with Jonathan Trott being preferred instead. Lyth made his Test debut for England against New Zealand in May 2015 and scored his first Test run off the first ball of the game. He failed to make a significant score in either innings, being dismissed for just seven in the first innings and then losing his wicket while on 12 in the second. Despite this, England went on to win the game by 124 runs to go 1–0 up in the series. In the second Test, Lyth top scored for England with 107, helping them to post 350. However, he could not follow this up in the second innings, being dismissed for 24 as England lost the game by 199 runs to draw the series 1–1. Lyth was selected as England's opener for the
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. Lyth was subsequently dropped from the Test side after the Ashes series after gaining a total of 111 runs from 9 innings.


Outside cricket

Lyth's brother Ashley was also a cricketer and footballer, representing Yorkshire 2nds at cricket and making over 100 appearances for
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. A broken leg put paid to a career with
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. Lyth himself also had football trials as a youngster, with Manchester City. Lyth played football at semi professional level for
Whitby Town F.C. Whitby Town Football Club is an English football club based in Whitby, North Yorkshire. The club participates in the Northern Premier League, the seventh tier of English football. Founded in 1880, Whitby are one of the oldest clubs from the Nor ...
in the
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. His only appearance was coming on as a substitute against Runcorn in 2006 in a 4–0 victory.


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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Lyth, Adam 1987 births Living people People from Whitby English cricketers England Test cricketers Yorkshire cricketers Marylebone Cricket Club cricketers Sportspeople from North Yorkshire Wisden Cricketers of the Year Rangpur Riders cricketers Northern Superchargers cricketers