Chris Woakes Net Worth 2021, Age, Height, Family, Parents, Wife, PSL, Wickets

Chris Woakes net worth

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Introduction

Chris Woakes is an English cricketer who plays for Warwickshire County Cricket Club and the England cricket team. He was part of the England squad that won the 2019 Cricket World Cup.

He is a right-handed batsman and a right-arm fast-medium pace bowler. He made his Test match debut against Australia in the fifth Ashes Test in 2013. He is one of only ten players in Test cricket history to have his name on both major honours boards at Lord’s, for scoring a century and taking five wickets in an innings in a Test on the ground. As a young player at Warwickshire Ashley Giles commented, “if you wanted to clone a young cricketer, it would be Woakes.”

Early life

NameChris Woakes
Net Worth$8 million
ProfessionCricketer
Height1.85m
Age32 years
Chris Woakes net worth 2021

Christopher Roger Woakes was born on March 2, 1989 (age 32 years) in Birmingham, United Kingdom. His father is Roger Woakes. Chris attended Barr Beacon Language College in Walsall from 2000 to 2007. He began playing cricket when he was seven years old with Aston Manor Cricket Club.

He played three games in the 2006 Minor Counties Trophy for Herefordshire County Cricket Club and played for Warwickshire’s under-15, under-17, Academy and Second XI teams between 2004 and 2007. Woakes is an avid supporter of local football club Aston Villa F.C. He was a trainee footballer with Walsall F.C. as a winger until the age of 14.

Career

Chris Woakes represented Warwickshire in one match during the 2006 season, during a West Indian tour of England. Woakes picked up three wickets in the match. He has since represented Warwickshire in the Second XI Championship.

He was a regular for the Warwickshire First XI in 2008. He took 42 wickets at an average of 20.57 runs per wicket over the course of the County Championship season, topping Warwickshire’s bowling averages.

On 6 April 2009, Woakes was called up to the England Lions squad. Woakes made his Lions debut against the West Indies, taking 6/43 in the first innings of the match. During the same season, he scored 131 not out against Hampshire, his maiden first-class century, batting at number nine and sharing a 222-run partnership with Jonathan Trott.

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Woakes claimed his 200th first-class wicket in Warwickshire’s victory over Sussex in the County Championship in July 2011.

In the 2017 Indian Premier League auction, Woakes was bought by Kolkata Knight Riders, going on to take 17 wickets in 13 matches, with best figures of 3/6. In the 2018 IPL auction, he was bought by Royal Challengers Bangalore, playing in five matches and taking eight wickets in the 2018 IPL. He was released by RCB ahead of the 2019 IPL auction, where he went unsold.

In the 2020 IPL auction, he was bought by Delhi Capitals ahead of the 2020 Indian Premier League but pulled out of the tournament. Chris Woakes has pulled out of IPL 2020 to keep himself fresh for the England Test season. He was retained by Delhi for the 2021 season. Woakes made his Delhi Capitals debut vs CSK in match 2 of IPL 2021.

International career

Chris Woakes made his International Twenty20 debut on 12 January 2011 against Australia in Adelaide. Opening the bowling, he took figures of 1/34 and later scored the winning runs. He featured throughout the one-day matches on the tour, and in his second One Day International took figures of 6/45. Woakes returned to England set up in 2012 during an ODI series against South Africa and continued to feature in the one-day side against India and New Zealand later in the year.

Woakes made his Test match debut against Australia in the final Test of the 2013 Ashes series, taking 1/96 in the first innings. After being named in squads against Sri Lanka and India, Woakes played his first Test of the 2014 summer in the third Test against India.

He was an integral part of England’s ODI side, playing all four matches and was selected in the ODI squad that toured Sri Lanka towards the end of 2014. England toured without injured senior bowlers Stuart Broad and James Anderson, meaning Woakes was trusted with the new ball. He took figures of 6/47 in the fifth match of the series, a bowling spell which was nominated to be one of the best ODI bowling performances of the year by ESPNCricinfo.

Chris Woakes was part of the England side for the 2015 Cricket World Cup, although injury ruled him out of England’s final match of the tournament. After the injury, Woakes returned for the ODI series against Australia and Pakistan and the Test side against South Africa in 2015/16. On 21 June 2016, he scored his highest ODI score of unbeaten 95 runs in the first ODI against Sri Lanka. His score is the joint highest ODI score by number eight or lower in ODI history, a record that he shares with fellow Englishman, Sam Curran.

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Woakes made his first Test century against India (137 not out) at Lord’s in August 2018, the ground where two years earlier he had his best match figures with the ball of 11/102 against Pakistan. These feats earned him a position on both Lord’s honours boards, one of only ten players to achieve this, and the fifth to do so by taking ten wickets in a match.

He has continued to feature in England’s one-day and Test squads, and in April 2019 was named in England’s squad for the 2019 Cricket World Cup. He was named the Player of the Match in the World Cup semi-final against Australia, taking three wickets to see England through to the World Cup Final against New Zealand, the teams first appearance in a final since 1992. Woakes again took three wickets in the final as England won the tournament.

On 17 June 2020, Woakes was included in England’s 30-man squad to start training behind closed doors for the Test series against the West Indies and was later named in England’s thirteen-man squad for the first Test match of the series. In the second Test, Woakes took his 100th wicket in Test matches. Chris Woakes reached 150 ODI wickets of his career by taking the wicket of Pathum Nissanka in the 1st ODI of Sri Lanka tour of England, 2021.

Wife

Chris Woakes is married to his longtime girlfriend Amie Louise Woakes, they had their wedding in 2017. Chris and his wife Amie Louise Woakes have a daughter Laila Woakes. The couple lives in a private house in London.

Chris Woakes net worth

How much is Chris Woakes worth? Chris Woakes net worth is estimated at around $5 million. His main source of income is from his career as a Cricketer. Woakes successful career has earned him some luxurious lifestyles and some fancy cars. He is one of the richest and influential cricketers in the United Kingdom. However, in September 2021, Woakes was named to England’s squad for the 2021 ICC Men’s T20 World Cup.