Full Name

Alex Lloyd Hughes

Born

September 29, 1991, Wordsley, Staffordshire

Age

32y 172d

Batting Style

Right hand Bat

Bowling Style

Right arm Medium

Playing Role

Allrounder

RELATIONS

(brother)

Alex Hughes, a product of the Derbyshire academy, is a Staffordshire-born allrounder who bowls right-arm seam and can bat at the top of the order. He gained the reputation as a potential captain-in-waiting after Derbyshire's director of cricket Kim Barnett praised his "exceptional leadership skills" in awarding him a new two-year contract in September 2016. Hughes had skippered Derbyshire in nine limited-overs matches, standing in for the injured Wes Durston.

Hughes, a product of Staffordshire (where Barnett was briefly a team-mate) and the Derbyshire Academy, made his first-team debut for Derbyshire against Yorkshire in the 2011 Friends Life t20. His first-class debut followed against Sussex at Hove in August 2013, and he shared in a spurt of late-season success for the county which failed to spare them from relegation. An attacking hundred against Northants in a miserable 2015 for Derbyshire was his first in the Championship.

Derbyshire finished bottom of Division Two, without a win, in 2016, but Hughes was at the centre of an improved showing the following summer, scoring 800 first-class runs at 40.00. He drew confidence from Derbyshire's strong T20 campaign - they reached the quarter-finals for only the second time - and was named as the county's Player of the Year.

In 2018, he topped the Derbyshire wicket charts in the Blast and played every game in the Championship; the following summer he helped secure a first T20 Finals Day appearance in the club's history. But Hughes' batting tailed off over the next three seasons and although he set a new mark as Derbyshire's all-time leading T20 wicket-taker, he retired towards the end of 2022, aged 31, to take up a role as analyst on the backroom staff.
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Alex Hughes Career Stats

Batting & Fielding

FormatMatInnsNORunsHSAveBFSR100s50s4s6sCtSt
FC7913812348314227.64765645.4961344010550
List A7351893796*21.7999694.07037721300
T20s100761995743*16.78783122.22007027390

Bowling

FormatMatInnsBallsRunsWktsBBIBBMAveEconSR4w5w10w
FC797737531941374/464/7552.453.10101.4200
List A735620451916434/444/4444.555.6247.5100
T20s1009415952182604/424/4236.368.2026.5100

Recent Matches of Alex Hughes

MatchBatBowlDateGroundFormat
Derby 2nd XI vs Notts 2nd XI40 & 345/18 & 1/4620-Sep-2022BelperOTHER
Derby 2nd XI vs Middx 2nd XI78*--05-Sep-2022DenbyOTHER
Derbyshire vs WORCS12--14-Aug-2022WorcesterList A
Derbyshire vs Hampshire310/1812-Aug-2022DerbyList A
Derby 2nd XI vs Yorks 2nd XI41 & 131/49 & 2/5911-Jul-2022ChesterfieldOTHER

Photos of Alex Hughes

Alex Hughes has a good all-round day
Alex Hughes went wicketless in his first spell