David Willey

He took a wicket with his 2nd ball and finished with figures of 3–69.

In the fourth match of the series he took figures of 2–89 as England went on to win the game comfortably.

He took 2–50 in the final game of the series as England won the series 3–2.

David Jonathan Willey (born 28 February 1990) is an English former international cricketer.

He is a left-handed batsman and bowler.

He is the son of former England cricketer and international umpire Peter Willey.

Willey was a member of the England team that won the 2022 T20 World Cup.

On 1 November 2023, he announced his retirement from international cricket, following the 2023 Cricket World Cup.

Having come through the ranks at Northampton playing for O.N's and Northants Academy, he got his chance in the 2009 season aged 19 after a good pre-season.

His first game came against Leicestershire, the first game of the season against one of his father's old clubs.

He scored 60 on debut after a good partnership with Andrew Hall, but did not continue this in the televised game against Essex in his first one day game getting out for a duck with a poor shot.

His first wicket came in his second first-class against Kent when he had Phil Edwards out LBW.

On 8 May he was rewarded with a two-year professional contract after impressing during the start of the season.

It was in the Twenty20 that he excelled in, but this time with his bowling taking 3/9 in his first spell against Worcestershire and finished the 2009 competition with an average of 11.30.

He appeared alongside Northants teammate Jack Brooks on Cricket AM feature, Brain vs Brawn, in 2010.

In 2013, Willey helped Northamptonshire to a 102-run victory in a rain-shortened Friends Life Twenty20 Final against Surrey where he made 60 with the bat, then had figures of 4/9, including a match-ending hat-trick to clean up the tail.

On 19 August 2015, it was announced that Willey would be joining Yorkshire on a three-year contract at the start of the 2016 season.

Willey was signed by Perth Scorchers for the 2015–16 BBL season.

He made his One Day International debut for England against Ireland on 8 May 2015 and took his first wicket in a rain-affected match.

Willey was also called up to the England ODI team on 14 June 2015 against New Zealand and played in the third match of the series.

Willey married singer-songwriter Carolynne Willey in November 2016.

Willey started his career playing for his home county Northamptonshire in the County Championship division two.

He made his Yorkshire debut against Nottinghamshire at Trent Bridge on 1 May 2016.

After a successful first season, he was retained for the 2016–17 season.

In the first match against the Adelaide Strikers, he performed well with the ball, taking 2 wickets, however, he scored only 2 runs off five balls with the bat.

In the Scorchers' second match against the Sydney Sixers, he scored one run and didn't take a wicket, in a heavy defeat.

In the third match against the Melbourne he bowled well, taking two wickets with the ball before Ashton Agar scored a six to win in the final over.

He was again retained by the Scorchers for the 2017–18 season, as the only overseas player for the club.

Willey was signed by Northern Superchargers for the inaugural edition of The Hundred tournament.

He was the team's captain for the first edition of the tournament as planned captain Faf du Plessis was ruled out.

When du Plessis returned in 2022, Willey was replaced by him as captain.

Chennai Super Kings signed Willey for the 2018 IPL season to replace Kedar Jadhav, who was injured during the first match of the tournament, and he was also sought as a replacement for the injured New Zealand spinner, Mitchell Santner.

During the time of his late IPL call, David Willey was playing county cricket matches for Yorkshire before agreeing to play for CSK.

He also became the 12th English player to be called up to play at the 2018 IPL season.

During the 2018 IPL edition, he was also one of three England cricketers to have received the late IPL call-ups along with Liam Plunkett (for DD) and Alex Hales (for SRH).

Chennai Super Kings retained David Willey for the 2019 IPL season.

He was released by the Chennai Super Kings ahead of the 2020 IPL auction.

In February 2022, he was bought by the Royal Challengers Bangalore in the auction for the 2022 Indian Premier League tournament.

Willey was selected in the England U19 cricket squad for the Tests against Bangladesh.

Although he did not play in the first Test, he scored 65 in the first innings of the second Test.