Will Owen (cricketer)

Will Owen
Personal information
Full name William Thomas Owen
Born 2 September 1988 (1988-09-02) (age 23)
St Asaph, Wales
Batting style Right-handed
Bowling style Right-arm medium pace
Role Bowler
Domestic team information
Years Team
2007– Glamorgan (squad no. 34)
First-class debut 19 September 2007 Glamorgan v Gloucestershire
List A debut 16 May 2010 Glamorgan v Unicorns
Career statistics
Competition FC LA T20
Matches 4 3 4
Runs scored 38 22 8
Batting average 12.66 11.00 8.00
100s/50s 0/0 0/0 0/0
Top score 38 12 8
Balls bowled 371 132 54
Wickets 3 10 0
Bowling average 88.33 12.10
5 wickets in innings 0 1 0
10 wickets in match 0
Best bowling 3/65 5/49 0/17
Catches/stumpings 0/– 1/– 0/–
Source: CricketArchive, 26 July 2010

William Thomas "Will" Owen (born 2 September 1988) is a Welsh cricketer who plays for Glamorgan. He is a right-handed batsman and a right-arm medium pace bowler.

Born in St Asaph, Clwyd, Owen attended Prestatyn High School and began his cricket career playing for Prestatyn Cricket Club. He was soon spotted by the Glamorgan scouts and began playing for their second XI in 2006. In 2007, he made his debut for Wales Minor Counties and at the end of the season, he made his first-class debut for Glamorgan, playing in their final County Championship match of the season against Gloucestershire.

That year, Owen began a degree course at UWIC in Cardiff, and therefore divided his time in the 2008 season between playing for the Cardiff University Centre of Cricketing Excellence, the Glamorgan 2nd XI, Wales Minor Counties, Pentyrch and Prestatyn. The 2009 season saw him continue to turn out for Wales Minor Counties and the Glamorgan 2nd XI, but he played his club cricket for Abergavenny.

In 2010, Owen returned to the Glamorgan 1st XI, almost three years after his debut. He made his return in a Clydesdale Bank 40 match against Unicorns at Dean Park, Bournemouth, on 16 May 2010, taking five wickets for 39 runs, and then scoring 12 runs off 12 balls; however, Glamorgan lost by 58 runs. The following week, he returned to first-class cricket with a County Championship match away to Leicestershire, and although he took no wickets and made no runs, Glamorgan won by 10 wickets. His Twenty20 debut came on 11 June, in Glamorgan's third match of the 2010 Friends Provident t20 away to the Essex Eagles; his bowling conceded 36 runs in two overs, but he did not bat as Glamorgan won by 7 wickets.

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