Darren Stevens

Who is Darren Stevens?

Darren Ian Stevens is an English cricketer. An all-rounder, he bats right handed and bowls right-arm medium-pace. Since his debut in first-class cricket he has played County Cricket for Leicestershire followed by Kent, as well as featuring for the England Lions and Dhaka Gladiators.

Though his career began slowly - with only four County Championship appearances between 1997 and 1999 - Stevens made his mark with a century against Sussex which attracted the attention of former England batsman Colin Cowdrey. With the departure of several lead batsmen, Stevens secured a regular county place and was taken on development tours of Australia in 2003. Moving to Kent in 2004 he began with a prolific season - 1,277 runs in first-class cricket - and improved his bowling. By 2012 he was a prolific scorer in the Championship and in the Twenty20 season. He went on to pass 10,000 runs and 200 wickets in the first-class game. Though he travelled to New Zealand, Zimbabwe and Bangladesh, in the latter to play in the Bangladesh Premier League, his later career was blighted by a charge of failing to report a corrupt approach in late 2013.