Angus Alexander Patrick Atkinson (born 19 January 1998) is an English professionalcricketer who plays forSurrey andEngland.[2] He is a right-armfast bowler and batsman.
Atkinson was educated atNorthcote Lodge, apreparatory school inWandsworth, London, andBradfield College, anindependent school in Berkshire, England.[3][4] He has an older sister and younger brother.[1] His mother, Caroline, died at the age of 55 in December 2020 as a result of injuries sustained in a car accident, for which the driver of the other vehicle involved was found responsible and given a prison sentence in 2024.[5]
On 18 September 2023, Atkinson signed a new multi-year contract extension at Surrey.[10] In February 2024, it was announced that he had withdrawn from his £95,000 IPL contract withKolkata Knight Riders after discussion with theEngland and Wales Cricket Board, who were keen to manage his workload.[11]
Atkinson got his first seniorEngland call-up on 16 August 2023 for theODI and T20I series againstNew Zealand.[12] He made his T20I debut on 1 September 2023 againstNew Zealand in the second T20I of the four match series. During that match he took figures of 4/20 which were the best by an England men's bowler on T20I debut.[13]
In December 2023, Atkinson received his first call-up to the England Test squad for theirtour of India.[15] On 30 June 2024, Atkinson was named in the Test squad for theWest Indies tour.[16][17] He made his debut in the first Test atLord's on 10 July 2024, taking seven wickets in the first innings[18][19][20] and five in the second. His match figures of 12/106 were the best by an England debutant in 134 years as he made it onto theLord's honours boards.[21][22][23]
He scored his maiden first-class century in the first innings of thesecond Test againstSri Lanka at Lord's on 30 August 2024, reaching his hundred off 103 balls.[24] In doing so, he became only the sixth player to have taken five wickets in an innings, ten wickets in a match, and scored a century at the ground.[25][26] In terms of deliveries faced, the latter was also the sixth fastest there in Test history.[27] He went on to take five wickets in Sri Lanka's second innings, becoming only the third England player (the first sinceIan Botham in 1984) to achieve this and score a hundred in the same Test match.[28]
In December 2024, Atkinson bowled ahat-trick in a Test against New Zealand, becoming the first Englishman in all Tests since 2017 to do so.[29] Atkinson suffered a hamstring strain in the first Test of the 2025 English summer againstZimbabwe.[30] He returned to the England team for the final Test of theIndia series and took a fourth five-wicket haul.[31]
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^Hoult, Nick (2 September 2024)."Atkinson sets up England for summer clean sweep". Sport.The Daily Telegraph. No. 52661. pp. 10–11. Retrieved2 September 2024. (Online article, published a day earlier, has a different title).
