Nathan Buck

Squad Number - 17

Player Sponsor - Russell Scanlan Insurance Brokers http://www.russellscanlan.com

Born - 26 April, 1991

Joined - Leicestershire 2008 (Academy 2004)

Role - Right arm fast bowler, right handed batsman

Family -

Teams Represented - Leicestershire and England at under 15, 17 and 19 level. England Lions

Honours - England under 19s

Highlight of Career - Signing 3-year contract, touring South Africa with England under 19s

Players Admired - Brett Lee, Dale Steyn, Josh Cobb

Relaxations - Going out with friends, Eating out

Highly-rated pace bowler Nathan Buck received his Leicestershire CCC County Cap during the first game of the 2011 season after representing England Lions earlier in the year.

However, he then picked up an ankle injury later in April and was just returning to his best when the season came to an end.

Buck took a maiden LV=CC five-wicket haul against Gloucestershire at Bristol and was subsequently selected to be part of the ECB Performance Programme that runs throughout the winter.

Buck bowls with pace, control and aggression and had a tremendous first full year on the Leicestershire staff in 2010 as he took 49 Championship wickets.

Buck formed a natural new-ball partnership with Matthew Hoggard and also played plenty of List A and t20 games. He took ten wickets in t20, including a fine spell of 3-20 during an important win at Headingley.

The bowler made his breakthrough in the summer of 2009 after he had finished studying. In that short burst of action, Buck claimed the wickets Mark Ramprakash and VVS Laxman as his maiden Championship and List A wickets respectively.

Buck bowled with great enthusiasm and quality during the month of August, where he carried out lots of hard work on shirt-fronters at Surrey and Glamorgan.

Buck was England under 19s’ most successful paceman on the South Africa tour in early 2009. He took nine wickets at 24.22 despite being the youngest bowler on show, played in Bangladesh later that year and went to the World Cup in New Zealand in 2010.

Buck's career record at Leics:

NL Buck 2011 (93.47 kB)

Here is a link to a Q and A with Nathan Buck:

http://www.leicestershireccc.co.uk/lc/News/2011/Q-and-A-with-Nathan-Buck