Liam Livingstone (Cricketer)

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• Liam Livingstone is a British cricketer, who plays as a right-handed batsman for the England cricket team. He is touted for being an aggressive and destructive batsman in the T20 circuit.

• Liam Livingstone has scored 1774 T20 runs with a strike rate of 140.90 across 76 matches.

• Liam Livingstone started playing first-class cricket with Lancashire County Cricket Club in 2016.

• Liam Livingstone won the trophy in his first season with Lancashire after beating Edgbaston on Finals Day in the 2015 NatWest Blast.

  

• At a party after winning his first trophy, he was involved in a brawl that led him to be hit with a glass and that resulted in 20 stitches.

• Liam Livingstone is an opener, who can bowl off-break and leg break. He aspires to become a perfect all-rounder by adding these special attributes to his game

• England is rammed up in batting options with players like Jos Buttler, Ben Stokes, Dawid Malan, Jonny Bairstow, Jason Roy, Eoin Morgan, Joe Root, Moeen Ali and Sam Billings therefore, it comes as a big challenge for him to break into his national side.

  

• Liam Livingstone was used to bowling off-spinners only but later, he developed his leg-spin by playing at Old Trafford, which has a spinner-friendly pitch.

• In 2015, Liam Livingstone scored 350 runs off 138 balls for his side Nantwich that is the highest individual score in ODI history reportedly.

• An excellent maiden championship double-century for Lancashire against Warwickshire at Old Trafford in 2017, helped him get a call from England national team for their T20 squad.

  

• Liam Livingstone’s first call up for England was a dreadful experience that he wishes, he could forget soon.

• On his T20I debut, he made 16 runs from 18 balls at Taunton, then the first-ball duck in his second innings at Cardiff.

• In 2018, he was appointed as the club captain and Lancashire got relegated under his captaincy after failing to score fifty in 10 championship matches.

• Liam Livingstone joined Rajasthan Royals in a player auction for 50 lakhs during the Indian Premier League 2019 season.

• Liam Livingstone made his debut against Mumbai Indian at Wankhede Stadium, where he failed to impress with performance and was released by Rajasthan Royals.

  

• Liam Livingstone remains to be a player of high demand in the foreign domestic leagues, having played for Cape Town Blitz in the Mzansi Super League,  Perth Scorchers in the Big Bash League.

• Liam Livingstone’s successful season in Big Bash, where he scored 426 runs in 14 games with runners-up Perth Scorchers helped him get a recall from the England T20 squad.

• Liam Livingstone hailed the Big Bash League that turned out to be a good learning curve for his game. In an interview talking about the impact of franchise cricket upon his game he told-
  

  I am a very different player and a very different person since then (2017). The experience that you get by playing franchise cricket around the world is pretty valuable when you come back to playing international cricket.”

• Liam Livingstone hit impressive 28 sixes for his side Perth Scorchers that was second-most in the competition.

• Liam Livingstone was re-signed by Rajasthan Royals for 75 Lakhs for the 2021 IPL season, joining his England teammates Jos Buttler, Ben Stokes, and Jofra Archer in the Rajasthan Royals squad.