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#2 Tom Westley

Tom Westley in action

Yet another experienced cricketer in the English domestic circuit, Tom Westley has been representing the Essex team since 2007. Recently, he played a couple of Tests against South Africa in which he showed touch of class and flair with his stroke-making.

In the first-class level, he has piled on 8172 runs in 143 games at a healthy average of 37.31. With 41 half-centuries and 18 hundreds, the Cambridge-born cricketer has never been short of runs in his illustrious domestic career.

He has been impressive with the willow in the 2017 edition of the Specsavers County Championship as he has scored 478 runs in 8 games at 53.11. His best score was recorded against Hampshire when he scored 111 runs on Day 1.