Cricket / Gary Ballance started to play for england in starting career but after flop returns to Zimbabwe know his stats

Gary Ballance, Ireland vs Zimbabwe 1st T20I: Players try many ways to make and save their careers. Sometimes they change their batting style and sometimes they change their bowling style. Even after doing so much, when opportunities are not created, sometimes even the country or the team is changed. A cricketer did the same, when his career started getting ruined, he changed his country.

England cricketer changed the country

The name of the player in question is Gary Simon Balance. Many people would know him as the cricketer of England. This batsman has also played Test and ODI matches against India, has been a part of the Ashes series. Meanwhile, cricket-fans got a shocking news about him, when this star was seen playing for another country instead of England. Impressed with his batting and also played an important role in the team's victory.

Made international debut in 2013

Gary Ballance made his international debut in 2013 against Ireland. He played his first match as an ODI in Dublin. Got down to bat at number-4 but returned to the pavilion without opening the account. Then in the very next match, he hit 79 runs against Australia. He played 23 Tests and 16 ODIs for England between 2013 and 2017.

Could not get chance in T20, changed country

In the year 2017, Gary wore the England jersey for the last time and played a Test match against South Africa in Nottingham. After this, he could not get a chance again. Not only this, T20 International career could not even start. Perhaps the balance also felt that he would no longer get a place in the playing-11 of the England team, just then Gary made a plan to 'return home'. He decided to return to Zimbabwe, where he was born.

place in the national team

Gary Ballance also got a big advantage of changing the team or just say that he was appreciated. Gary played domestic cricket in Zimbabwe and then after a short time he got a place in the national team. Gary made his international debut for Zimbabwe on 12 January 2023. Interestingly, this was also the first T20 international match of his career.

win for zimbabwe

Gary played his first T20 International match against Ireland. He made his ODI debut against this team. Although his team jersey was different. Gary scored 30 runs in 29 balls in this T20 match played in Harare. His innings included 2 fours and a six. He was the second top-scorer for his team. Sean Williams scored an unbeaten 34 off 30 balls hitting 3 fours. The Ireland team was all out for 114 runs in 19.2 overs. After this, Zimbabwe achieved the target by losing 5 wickets in 18 overs.

Scored 1000 runs in 10 tests only

Gary Ballance is a middle-order batsman who also specializes in leg-break bowling. Gary was once considered as the number-3 and 4 wall. If he had frozen, every bowler would have started asking for water. His run-speed in Tests can be gauged from the fact that he scored 1000 runs in only 10 Tests and 17 innings.