Steven Finn

He became Middlesex's youngest first-class debutant, beating the record set by 16-year-old Fred Titmus in 1949.

He also played Middlesex age group cricket.

He was not re-engaged by Middlesex following the 2021 season and signed a contract with Sussex for the 2022 season, where he took 21 wickets in 19 appearances.

Finn played for Manchester Originals in the inaugural season of The Hundred, where he set a record for the most runs conceded in the competition - fifty-one from his fifteen deliveries.

Following a knee injury in 2022, which left him sidelined for most of 2023, Finn announced his retirement from all forms of cricket on 14 August, 2023.

Steven Thomas Finn (born 4 April 1989) is a former English cricketer.

He was a right-arm fast bowler, who also bats right-handed.

At the age of 16, he became Middlesex County Cricket Club's youngest-ever debutant in first-class cricket.

He made his first-class debut for Middlesex on 1 June 2005, playing against Cambridge UCCE at Fenner's.

He took 1 wicket for 16 runs (1/16) and 1/37 and did not bat.

Finn toured South Africa with the England Under-16 squad in 2005.

He played in two Under-19 Test matches and three Under-19 ODIs against the Indian side that toured England in 2006, and in seven Under-19 ODIs in Malaysia in early 2007.

He impressed the selectors, and was short-listed for the 2009 World Twenty20 though was not picked for the final team.

He made his England Test debut in 2010 against Bangladesh.

He lives in Brighton.

In February and March 2010, he was part of the England Lions team to tour the United Arab Emirates, earning selection with a solid 2009 season of 53 wickets at 30.64.

When the senior squad's bowling attack was restricted by injury at the beginning of the 2010 Bangladesh tour, he was flown in as bowling cover.

He played a tour match the day after arriving, and took three wickets in some economical spells of bowling across the two innings, and subsequently leapfrogged Liam Plunkett and Ajmal Shahzad to be picked for the first Test match on 12 March 2010.

He was aged just 20, and became the 647th man to play Test cricket for England.

He played in both Test matches, which England won by 181 runs and 10 wickets respectively.

His first wicket was Bangladeshi batsman Shahadat Hossain, who was caught by Paul Collingwood, and proceeded to take one wicket in each of the four Bangladeshi innings.

A double declaration by England in the first Test meant that he wasn't required to bat until the second Test where he finished unbeaten on 0 from 10 balls.

After an impressive start to the County season, including a 14-wicket match haul, he was chosen again to face Bangladesh, this time in England.

In the first match at Lord's, his home debut, he took a 5-wicket-haul in the second innings as England won by eight wickets, finishing with nine wickets in the match.

In doing so he was compared to Angus Fraser and Glenn McGrath by many media pundits, although he also worried them by frequently falling over in his follow-through.

Nevertheless, he went on to Old Trafford to take a second five-for, being named Player of the Series in his debutante international home season.

Finn was not selected for the ODI series against Australia and Bangladesh, but returned for the Test series against Pakistan.

Finn was quietly effective; though he did not bowl as much as fellow pace-bowlers James Anderson and Stuart Broad, he picked up 13 wickets at an average of 22.92.

Finn was also part of a useful 49-run unbeaten last-wicket partnership with Matt Prior in the first Test, which enabled Prior to reach a century despite only having 63 runs when Finn came to the crease.

Finn picked up five wickets in the match, including 3–50 in the first innings as England won by 354 runs.

He bowled less in the second Test, taking match figures of 3–67.

Finn was less impressive in the third Test at the Oval, but took 3–38 in the final Test of the series as England won by 225 runs.

England won the series 3–1, though the series ended amid newspaper allegations of spot-fixing involving several members of the Pakistan team.

Finn's performances during the summer saw him selected for England's squad for the 2010-11 Ashes series and he won the ICC Emerging Player of the year award at the 2010 ICC Awards.

Chosen for the first Test at the Gabba in Brisbane, Finn took his first Ashes wicket catching Simon Katich off his own bowling.

He later took the wickets of several of the Australian tail to finish with Test-best figures of 6–125, his third five wicket haul in only his ninth Test.

In 2019 he became a commentator for Test Match Special.

Finn was educated at Parmiter's School in Garston near Watford.

He is a supporter of Watford F.C. and a former county basketball player.

Finn played locally for Langleybury CC and West Herts CC, and later in his career for Hampstead Cricket Club.