Who is Liam Dawson? Batter with 10000 FC runs set to bat at No. 8 for England

Liam Dawson, who has replaced Shoaib Bashir in the England's playing XI, has 10,731 first-class runs and 371 wickets. He has made a return to test cricket after 8 years.

Liam Dawson made a return to test cricket after 8 years. Image | Hampshire on X

In the England vs India fourth test in Manchester, England made only one change to their playing XI while India made three changes. For the hosts, England, they brought in spin bowling all-rounder Liam Dawson to replace the injured Shoaib Bashir, who was hit on the hand by Rishabh Pant during the third test at Lord's.

Replacing one spinner with another is quite normal in test cricket. But, for England and world cricket, the inclusion of Liam Dawson is more interesting than it seems.

Who is Liam Dawson?

Liam Andrew Dawson is an English spin-bowling all-rounder who plays for Hampshire in county cricket. The slow left-arm orthodox spinner had started his career as a top-order batter but slowly turned his focus to bowling.

The 35-year-old all-rounder had made his debut way back in 2016 in ODIs, Tests and T20Is. However, he played his last test in 2017 before returning to the longest format after a gap of 8 years.

The interesting part is that, although Dawson returned to the English team mainly as a bowling all-rounder, he has more than 10,000 first-class runs in his career. In the meantime, no current Indian batter has that amount of first-class runs.

He also has 18 first-class hundreds and 56 fifties, a feat that only a very few No.8 batters in the world have in their CV. He also has 371 first-class wickets in his career.

In the current season, Dawson has scored 536 runs at 44.66 and taken 21 wickets.

Liam Dawson's first-class career

Liam Dawson's international career-

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