Luke William Peter Wells (born 29 December 1990) 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

Lancashire Lancashire ( , ; abbreviated Lancs) is the name of a historic county, ceremonial county, and non-metropolitan county in North West England. The boundaries of these three areas differ significantly. The non-metropolitan county of Lancashi ...

, having previously played for

Sussex Sussex (), from the Old English (), is a historic county in South East England that was formerly an independent medieval Anglo-Saxon kingdom. It is bounded to the west by Hampshire, north by Surrey, northeast by Kent, south by the English ...

for 10 years. A left-handed top order batter and occasional right-arm

legspin Leg spin is a type of spin bowling in cricket. A leg spinner bowls right-arm with a wrist spin action. The leg spinner's normal delivery causes the ball to spin from right to left (from the bowler's perspective) when the ball bounces on the ...

bowler, he made his debut at the end of the 2010 season. He joined Lancashire in November 2020 having been released by Sussex. Wells is the son of former England player

Alan Wells Alan Peter Wells (born 2 October 1961) is an English cricketer. He played for Sussex from 1981 to 1996, where he was captain from 1992 to 1996. He then played for Kent from 1997 to 2000. In total he played 376 first-class matches in a career s ...

, and the nephew of

Colin Wells Colin Wells may refer to: *Colin Wells (actor) (born 1963), English actor in ''Titus'' *Colin Wells (cricketer) (born 1960), English cricketer *Colin Wells (historian) (1933–2010), English classicist *Colin Wells (Spooks) Colin Wells may refer to ...

, both of whom also played for Sussex. Luke was awarded his Lancashire cap in September 2022./https://cricket.lancashirecricket.co.uk/news/2022-news/contract-extensions-for-bailey-bell-and-wells/

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* Living people 1990 births Sussex cricketers Sportspeople from Eastbourne English cricketers Colombo Cricket Club cricketers People educated at St Bede's School, Hailsham Lancashire cricketers {{England-cricket-bio-1990s-stub