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| Full name | Tobias Skelton Roland-Jones | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | (1988-01-29)29 January 1988 (age 37) Ashford, Surrey, England | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 6 ft 3 in (191 cm) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Batting | Right-handed | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Bowling | Right-armmedium-fast | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Role | Bowler | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Test debut (cap 678) | 27 July 2017 v South Africa | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Last Test | 7 September 2017 v West Indies | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Only ODI (cap 247) | 29 May 2017 v South Africa | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| ODI shirt no. | 22 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| 2010–present | Middlesex(squad no. 21) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Tobias Skelton Roland-Jones (born 29 January 1988) is an Englishcricketer.
A medium-fast, right-arm bowler and a lower order right-handed batsman, Roland-Jones representsMiddlesex in county cricket, and has representedEngland atTest andOne Day International (ODI) level.
He was appointed Middlesex club captain for the 2023 season.[1]
Roland-Jones was born inAshford now inSurrey but historically inMiddlesex.
On 23 September 2016, Roland-Jones took ahat-trick against Yorkshire to secure the County Championship for Middlesex for the first time in 23 years.[2] He was named one of the Wisden 2017's Cricketers of the year.[3]
In September 2017, Roland-Jones suffered a lower-backstress fracture whilst playing for Middlesex and was consequently unavailable for selection for the England winter tours toAustralia andNew Zealand. On his return to county cricket in April 2018, a recurrence of the injury was predicted to rule him out of the2018 season.[4]
On 26 July 2019, in the2019 T20 Blast match againstGlamorgan, Roland-Jones took ahat-trick,[5] finishing with career-best figures of 5 for 21.[6]
In July 2016 he was named in England's squad for theirTest series against Pakistan.[7] However, he was dropped from the squad afterBen Stokes andJames Anderson were recalled to the England squad for thesecond Test against Pakistan atOld Trafford. He made his ODI debut for Englandagainst South Africa on 29 May 2017.[8]
He made his Test debut for England against South Africa on 27 July 2017[9] and took five wickets in his first Test match, ripping through the South African top four and completing his maiden five-for by removingTemba Bavuma. He was the first Englishman to take a five-for on debut sinceAdil Rashid in 2015.[10] Roland-Jones also showed that he is a capable lower order batsmen by adding 25 in the first innings (including four fours and one six) and 23 not out (two sixes) in the second innings.[9]