Jade Winston Dernbach (born 3 March 1986) is a cricketer who plays for Surrey County Cricket Club and England. He made his first-class debut in 2003 and won the NBC Denis Compton Award in 2004 and 2009.
Born in South Africa and
initially schooled at St John's College, he moved to England at the
age of 14 and gained British citizenship, making him eligible for the England
cricket team. After impressing for the England
Lions in the
West Indies in the early part of 2011, he was called up to the senior team as a
replacement for Ajmal Shahzad for the knock out stages of the2011 Cricket World Cup[1] and made his Twenty20 and ODI debuts later that year against Sri Lanka.
Derek Pringle described him in The Daily Telegraph as a fast bowler who is capable of obtaining conventional and reverse swing, as
well as of deceiving the batsman by bowling a variety of slower balls.[2]
Jade Dernbach
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Dernbach playing for England in 2012.
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Personal information
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Full name
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Jade Winston Dernbach
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Born
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Height
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6 ft 1.5 in (1.87 m)
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Batting style
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Right-handed
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Bowling style
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Role
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International information
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National side
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Last ODI
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ODI shirt no.
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46
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Last T20I
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Domestic team information
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Years
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Team
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2005–present
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Surrey (squad no. 16)
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2016–present
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Quetta Gladiators (squad no. 16)
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Career statistics
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Dernbach was born in Johannesburg, South Africa to a South African father and
an Italian mother and consequently currently possesses an Italian passport.[3] He moved with his family to England in
2000 when he was 14.[4] In South Africa, his preferred sport
was rugby union, but he began to develop as a cricketer in England. After
bowling at an under-15s net session at Surrey, he quickly moved through the age groups.[5]
Although born in South Africa, after his first call-up to the
England squad, he stated that "I don't owe anything to South Africa. I was
just born there, did a bit of schooling there, my whole cricket career has been
based in the UK, and UK is my home. I want to give everything I can to England
cricket, that's the country I love and that's the country that has given me
everything I have now."[6]
In 2013, Dernbach became the first UK-based athlete to pose for
a PETA "Ink Not Mink" advertisement, showing off his arm and chest
tattoos on behalf of the anti-fur campaign.[7]
His consistency and regular wicket-taking for Surrey was
rewarded with a place on the 2011 England Lions’ tour to the West Indies,
before a late call-up to England’s 2011 World Cup squad made him the first PG
Academy (Surrey CCC's youth academy) graduate to secure recognition at this
level. He continued to perform well for Surrey whenever available. His
excellent 2011 season was capped with a Man of the Match performance in the
CB40 Final, where his 4/30 helped lift Surrey to victory.
Dernbach was effective in Surrey’s successful T20 campaign in
2013, and was the side's leading wicket taker with 18 wickets (at an average of
16.44) as Surrey reached the Finals Day at Edgbaston for the first time since
2006.
In 2010, Dernbach was selected for the England Performance Programme
tour of Australia and subsequent England Lions tour of the West Indies where they
participated in the domestic Regional Four Day Competition. In the latter, he took 19 wickets at an
average of 15.63, making him the leading English bowler.
He was called up to the senior team as a replacement for Ajmal Shahzad for
the knock out stages of the 2011 Cricket World Cup[8] but was not picked to play.
At the beginning of the English season, he was then picked for
the Lions to face the touring Sri Lankans. He took 9 wickets in the match, although the Lions ultimately
lost the match.[9] However his performance saw him included
in the senior squad for the second Test after an injury to James Anderson. He had to wait until the limited overs games
to make his debut; taking 1–18 in his first Twenty20 International and 2–25 in his first ODI.
He has gone on to make 24 appearances for the ODI and 34 for the
England t20 side.
As of September 2015, Dernbach holds the unfortunate record of
having the second worst career economy rate in ODI history for bowlers bowling
more than 1000 balls and also the joint-worst career economy rate in T20I
history for bowlers bowling more than 300 balls.