Sam Billings | Biography Birthday Family Controversy Net Worth Age

Sam Billings Biography

Samuel William Billings is a cricketer who represented England. He was nicknamed “Sam Bilbo Billo” and “Rupert” by his family and teammates. Billings is a right-handed wicketkeeper who is also a batsman. He has played for Kent County Cricket Club since the age of eight. He made his debut for the first team in 2011. In October 2017, he was named vice-captain of the team and took over as captain of the North East team from Sam in January 2018.

Billings is recognised as a talented cricketer who follows the game closely and possesses a variety of creative scoring shots. He has represented England cricket in limited-overs matches and made his Test debut in January 2022. He plays professional Twenty20 cricket.

He captained the Oval Invincibles, a Twenty20 team, during the first two seasons of The Hundred. He has also played Twenty20 cricket in the Pakistan Super League, Indian Premier League and Australia's Big Bash League.

Sam Billings Age

Sam Billings was born in Pemberley, Kent, England, on June 15, 1991. Sam Billings is currently 31 years old. Sam Billings’ zodiac sign is Cancer.

Sam Billings' Childhood

Billings was born in Pemberley, Kent, and grew up on the family farm in the north of the county. A skilled all-rounder, he represented Kent in tennis, scoring a hat-trick for Corinthians Under-14s against the club's academy team before earning a trial with Tottenham Hotspur Football Club. Sam also played rugby, squash and racquetball.

Sam Billings Education

Billings attended Newbeacon School in Sevennox before transferring to Haileybury College in Hertfordshire. While at school, he regularly played for both schools' cricket teams. At Loughborough University, he studied for a degree in Sport and Exercise Science. Billings says that before going to university, he was nowhere near the level of professional cricket. He attributes this to the university encouraging him to put in the extra effort to hone his talent.

Sam Billings Family

Sam Billings' mother's name is Anne Billings. His father's name is unknown. Sam Billings' sister is named Alice Billings. His cousin Tom Billings won the world championship in the sport and his grandfather Ron Billings was a successful racket player.

Sam Billings Girlfriend

Sarah Cantley

Sarah Cantlay is a professional tennis player who has received various honors during her career. She also holds a degree in psychology. On November 20, 2021, Sam Billings proposed to his long-time girlfriend, Sarah Cantlay.

Sam Billings' Struggles

Sam Billings says the opportunity to learn from MS Dhoni while playing for Chennai Super Kings in the Indian Premier League this year made his upcoming form issues worthwhile.

Billings, who partnered with Dhoni, scored 56 runs from 23 balls against Kolkata Knight Riders in the IPL season. But he could not reach such heights again as he ended his intermittent career with 108 runs at 13.50 in a total of ten innings.

Billings's slow start to the domestic international season seems to be due to his lack of time in the middle order; he was left out of England's T20 and ODI squads against India last month after losing two innings in straight matches against Scotland and Australia. But Billings is determined and will not give up easily.

Sam Billings Cricket Career

Professional debut (2011)

Billings made his first-class debut for Loughborough MCCU against Northamptonshire in 2011. In four first-class matches for Loughborough MCCU he scored 321 runs at an average of 45.85, with a top score of 131. This was his first match against Northamptonshire.

However, Billings feels he has no regrets about his time at CSK and claims that Dhoni is a role model for him and his involvement and advice has only improved his game. Dhoni is currently settling into his leadership role at Kent.

ODI debut

Sam Billings made his ODI debut against New Zealand at the age of 23. In five matches, he scored only 3 runs on debut which was a decent performance.

T20 debut

In the subsequent series, he played in the first T20 match and scored 21. After his debut, he rarely played more than two consecutive matches but has been a regular in the limited-overs side.

Domestic business (2016)

Sam Billings had a prolific domestic season for Kent in 2016. He set a record by taking seven catches in one innings, becoming only the second Kent wicketkeeper to do so. Billings also hit a career-high 171 against Gloucestershire during the season.

Overseas direct investment

Sam Billings recorded a Group A best score of 175 in the 2016 Canterbury Test against Pakistan. In the October 2016 series against Bangladesh, he showcased his ODI talent, hitting his first half-century in the decisive match and leading his team to a 2-1 series win. Sam Billings started playing consecutive ODIs for the national team in 2017 and was named vice-captain of local team Kent.

IPL Career

Islamabad United bought Sam Billings in the Pakistan Super League in 2016 and kept him for the 2017 season. In 2016, he made his Indian Premier League debut for Delhi Dadevilles, scoring a half-century in his first match.

Delhi Dadevilles also played him in the tournament in 2017. In the 2016-17 Australian Premier League, he played for Sydney Sixers. In the 2018 IPL auction, he was bought by Chennai Super Kings for a base price of Rs 1 crore.

Sam Billings' international career

Sam Billings travelled to India with the England ODI and T20 squad in January 2017. After playing in his first series against the West Indies, he played back-to-back ODI matches for the first time, before again playing as a specialist batsman in his first A-level match of the tour against India A, scoring 93, and played one ODI and one T20 match on the tour.

In the summer of 2017, Sam played in Tests against Ireland, South Africa and the West Indies, although he was not selected for the England squad for the 2017 Champions Trophy. In early 2018, he travelled with the England squad to Australia for the ODI tour, but he did not play in any matches. In February, he played in the T20 matches against Australia and New Zealand in the 2017-18 Trans-Tasman Tri-Nation Series. He was again left out of the England squad for the subsequent ODI series against New Zealand.

Billings was selected as the first-choice wicketkeeper and vice-captain for the England T20I team's October 2019 tour of New Zealand.

He played all five T20I matches on the tour, despite scoring just 34 runs in five innings, and was not selected for the limited-overs squad that will play in South Africa in early 2020.

Sam was among the 55 players who began training behind closed doors in May 2020 in preparation for the international matches that would begin in England after the coronavirus pandemic. Although he was not selected for the Test squad against the West Indies, he was included in the squad for the ODI series against Ireland in July.

Sam played all three Tests against Ireland, not being dismissed and scoring scores of 67 and 46, before playing in three T20Is against visiting Pakistan. Billings played only the final T20I of the three-match series against Australia at the end of the summer, following the return of the experienced players, but was selected for the first ODI.

He played the remaining two matches of the series after scoring 118 and making his first international hundred. He was the only England representative selected in the 2020 Wisden ODI squad.

Sam Billings wickets and statistics (as of 2022)

Sam Billings' batting stats!

Format	matches	Bureau	run	HS
test	3	3	66	Thirty-six
Overseas direct investment	Twenty-eight	twenty three	702	118
T20 Series	thirty-seven	33	478	87
soccer club	82	118	3536	171
List A	104	91	3139	175
T20	243	229	4660	95*

Sam Billings Bowling Stats!

Format	matches	Bureau	run	small door	British Business Information Association
test	3	–	–	–	–
Overseas direct investment	Twenty-eight	–	–	–	–
T20 Series	thirty-seven	–	–	–	–
soccer club	82	1	4	0	–
List A	104	–	–	–	–
T20	243	–	–	–	–

Sam Billings Controversy

Twitter Controversy (2022)

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The former obviously stopped Australian wicketkeeper Matthew Wade from taking the ball and prevented the English fast bowler from touching the ball after his delivery was blocked by Wade. However, England captain Jos Buttler did not ask for the wicket.

Following the incident, former Indian cricketer Akash Chopra remembered Deepti Sharma and Charlotte Deane while mocking the English cricketing fraternity. “Are our British friends – the protectors of the spirit of cricket – silent about this?” Chopra tweeted.

Sam Billing, the English cricketer who openly criticised Deepti, claimed that he had been harassed a lot and was unwilling to speak out. No. It's very clear. I don't want to tweet anymore because of all the abuse I have received before.

Sam Billings Net Worth

Sam Billings' net worth is estimated to be $5 million. (approximately INR 370 million)

Sam Billings Social Work

In 2020, Sam Billings shaved his head to raise money for the Shave Donation and nominated the fundraising initiative.

Sam Billings Records

• In four first-class matches for Loughborough Sports College University (MCCU), he scored 321 runs at an average of 45.85 and a top score of 131.
• Sam Billings scored a Grade A score of 175 against Sri Lanka, a match played at his home ground.
• In the first ODI against Australia at the Old Trafford cricket stadium, Billings scored a hundred.
• Sam Billings heaped praises on the influence of Delhi coach Rahul Dravid and called his IPL experience extraordinary.
• Sam Billings is the second player after Richard Levy to score a half-century on his IPL debut.

4 Untold Facts About Sam Billings

• Sam Billings was affectionately known as Bilbo Billo or Rupert.
• Sam Billings has a keen interest in other sports like racket tennis, squash and rugby.
• Sam Billings has been offered a trial with Tottenham Hotspur's Under-14 squad
• Sam Billings is very close to MS Dhoni and considers the latter as his idol.

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