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Tymal Mills

Tymal Mills

Mills playing for Essex County Cricket Club
Personal information
Full name	Tymal Solomon Mills
Born	(1992-08-12) 12 August 1992 (age 31) Dewsbury, West Yorkshire, England, UK
Height	183 cm (6 ft 0 in)
Batting	Right-handed
Bowling	Left-arm fast
Role	Bowler
International information
National side	England (2016 - present)
T20I debut (cap 77)	5 July 2016 v Sri Lanka
Last T20I	16 December 2023 v West Indies
T20I shirt no.	72
Domestic team information
Years	Team
2010–2013; 2018–2019	Suffolk
2011–2014	Essex
2015–present	Sussex
2016	Chittagong Vikings
2016/17	Auckland
2017, 2020	Quetta Gladiators
2016/17	Brisbane Heat
2017	Royal Challengers Bangalore
2017/18	Hobart Hurricanes
2018	Karachi Kings
2018	Kandahar Knights
2019	Peshawar Zalmi
2021–present	Southern Brave
2021/22	Perth Scorchers
2022	Mumbai Indians
Career statistics
Competition T20I FC LA T20 Matches 16 32 23 219 Runs scored 8 260 7 152 Batting average 2.66 11.30 1.75 5.84 100s/50s 0/0 0/0 0/0 0/0 Top score 7 31* 3* 27 Balls bowled 322 3,531 790 4,564 Wickets 14 55 22 267 Bowling average 33.85 36.50 35.77 23.21 5 wickets in innings 0 0 0 0 10 wickets in match 0 0 0 0 Best bowling 3/27 4/25 3/23 4/13 Catches/stumpings 2/– 9/– 3/– 32/–
Source: ESPNcricinfo, 20 July 2024

Tymal Solomon Mills (born 12 August 1992) is an English international cricketer who currently plays internationally for England and domestically for Sussex. He is a left-arm fast bowler and a right-handed batsman who plays mainly as a bowler.^[1] He made his international debut for England in July 2016, and was a member of the English team that won the 2022 T20 World Cup.^[1]

Mills was born on 12 August 1992 in Dewsbury, West Yorkshire, England. He was educated at Mildenhall College of TechnologyinMildenhall, Suffolk and played for Mildenhall Cricket Club. Mills studied sports journalism at the University of East London, before leaving to pursue a career in cricket.^[2]

Mills made his first-class debut for Essex against the Sri Lankans in the tourist match of 2011 at Chelmsford. He made his Championship debut against LeicestershireatGrace Road in July 2011. His figures in the first-innings were 0–51, but in the second innings, he took 3–48. During the winter of 2011/12, Tymal Mills was named on the England Performance Programme (EPP). He began with training at Loughborough as well as camps in North Wales and with the Greater Manchester Fire Department. Mills then went to Potchefstroom, South Africa for three weeks in November on a specialist fast bowling programme. On Friday 16 December, Mills was a surprise inclusion in the 16 man England Lions squad. In 2012 Mills took 5 List A wickets and average of 58.60. He performed better in the Championship, taking 14 wickets at an average of 30.35. In 2013, his form in List A cricket improved, as he took ten wickets at an average of 23.30. However, he failed to kick on in the Championship, taking 11 wickets, three less than the previous season. His performances for Essex earned him another place on an England performance programme, and he took six wickets for the Lions on their tour of Sri Lanka.

In 2014, Mills joined Sussex. He took wickets at an average of 20 in the English T20 competition, and his pace ensured he continued to stand out. He also bowled in the First division of the County Championship for the first time, taking 14 wickets at an average of just below 35. In 2015, he was diagnosed with a congenital back condition and as a result, took time out of playing red-ball cricket. He continued to play T20 cricket and took 19 wickets at an average of 18.84.

From 2016, Mills played for Quetta Gladiators in the Pakistan Super League^[3][4] before signing with Karachi Kings in 2018. In 2019, he was picked by Peshawar Zalmi before returning to Quetta for the 2020 season.

In February 2017, Mills was bought by Royal Challengers Bangalore for the 2017 Indian Premier League for ₹12 crore (equivalent to ₹17 crore, US$2.0 million or £1.8 million in 2023). This made him the second highest-paid overseas player in the 2017 IPL behind Ben Stokes.^[5] In February 2022, he was bought by the Mumbai Indians in the auction for the 2022 Indian Premier League tournament.^[6]

In September 2018, Mills was named in Kandahar's squad in the first edition of the Afghanistan Premier League tournament.^[7] In July 2019, he was selected to play for the Edinburgh Rocks in the inaugural edition of the Euro T20 Slam cricket tournament.^[8][9] However, the following month the tournament was cancelled.^[10]

Mills featured in the first edition of 'The Hundred', a 100 ball cricket competition for the 'Southern Brave'.^[11] The Southern Brave won the first cup/title of 'The Hundred' by beating Birmingham Phoenix in the finals.^[12] In April 2022, he was bought by the Southern Brave for the 2022 seasonofThe Hundred.^[13]

On 5 July 2016, Mills made his Twenty20 International (T20I) debut for England against Sri Lanka, taking figures of 0-22 as England won by eight wickets.^[14]

Mills was selected for the T20I series against India in January 2017.^[15] He took 1–27 in the first game as England recorded a seven-wicket victory.^[16] In the second match, he took figures of 1-36 as India made 144/8, which proved to be a winning score for India.^[17] In the final match of the series, he took figures of 1-31 and was then dismissed for a duck as England lost by 75 runs.^[18]

In September 2021, Mills was named in England's squad for the 2021 ICC Men's T20 World Cup.^[19] Mills made his international comeback for England after 5 years in their first match of the World Cup against West Indies and took 2-17 from his 4 overs.^[20]

Mills was diagnosed with a congenital back condition in 2015.^[21] He spent three months of the winter of 2020/21 recovering from a stress fracture and had to wear a back brace.^[22]

• Tymal Mills atESPNcricinfo