Craig Kieswetter

It was also great to see Craig Overton get his maiden 50 for Somerset in the Durham game and to see George Dockrell get his second six wicket haul for us this summer. We are playing good cricket in the championship and have probably been unlucky in  some ...  

Craig Kieswetter is looking forward to a summer of success with Somerset and England. Here is the latest in a series of blogs Craig will be writing. Don't miss it each week. We had a great championship game against Surrey and from the first day you wouldn ...  

Craig Kieswetter is looking forward to a summer of success with Somerset and England. Here is the fourth in a series of blogs Craig will be writing. Don't miss it each week. We were really disappointed that the weather affected the game so much up at Trent ...  

Nick Compton was joined by Craig Kieswetter and together the pair steadied the innings. By tea the fourth-wicket pair had taken Somerset on to 111 for three off 30 overs with Compton on 41 and Kieswetter on 37. In the fourth over after the break Kieswetter ...  

Craig Kieswetter is looking forward to a summer of success with Somerset and England. Here is the third in a series of blogs Craig will be writing. Don't miss it each week. We started our season well with a victory at home over Middlesex, which was ...  

Craig Kieswetter is looking forward to a summer of success with Somerset and England. Here is the second in a series of blogs Craig will be writing. Don't miss it each week. We are all feeling pretty pleased after beating Middlesex in our opening ...  

England’s wicket-keeper for One-day Internationals, Craig Kieswetter, is determined to perform well for Somerset in the County Championship 2012, as he hopes that it will earn him a Test cap. Kieswetter, the 24-year-old cricketer from Transvaal, South ...  

I thought that we adjusted well as the conditions changed and the way that left arm spinner George Dockrell  came on to take six wickets to blow them away and get the win made it an ideal game for all of us. We are really fortunate in getting a player ...  

5. Craig Kieswetter (Aston Villa) Somerset’s international wicket-keeper batsmen took a Villa shirt with him on England’s tour to the Emirates to play Pakistan during the winter. He had Kieswetter 22 printed on the back of the clarent and blue shirt.  

Nick Compton and Craig Kieswetter batted Somerset into a strong position on the second day of the LV= County Championship match with Middlesex at Taunton. The home side had been reduced to 103 for three in reply to 246 when the pair came together.  

A strong batting performance, including substantial contributions from James Hildreth, Craig Kieswetter and Pete Trego, put Somerset into a strong position at the end of the second day of their three-day pre-season warm-up game at the County Ground.  

Somerset's Craig Kieswetter hopes a strong start to the County Championship could help him force his way into the England Test set-up.  

Somerset's Craig Kieswetter tells BBC Points West he wants to put England first-choice wicketkeeper Matt Prior under pressure for his place in the national side's set-up.  

Craig Kieswetter, James Hildreth and Jos Buttler bolster their top order but their bowling department could become stretched as the season progresses. The Sabres have lost two key players in that department over the summer; Murali Kartik and Charles ...  

First he tempted Cross to edge one that Craig Kieswetter caught thanks to a spectacular dive, before, seven balls later, the wicketkeeper pulled off a similarly impressive catch off Pete Trego's bowling to remove Luke Procter (1). A further two balls down ...  

By the time he departed for 62, he had shared a sixth-wicket stand of 107 with Craig Kieswetter and Somerset had reached 220 for eight, leading by 95, when bad light halted play. The game looked evenly balanced when they were 65 for four at tea in reply to ...  

Looking ahead to the game, England one day wicketkeeper Craig Kieswetter said: “We are chomping at the bit to get going with the white ball and it will be a really exciting game of cricket. “It is only the start of the season and the final of the ...  

However, things then went awry as he sustained a broken foot at the hands, ironically, of Craig Kieswetter, with whom he formed a successful opening partnership as England claimed their first victory in an ICC event. The incident happened when Lumb was ...  

Alex Hales fought hard only to give his wicket away in the lead up to lunch, edging Meschede’s fourth delivery behind to Craig Kieswetter as he tried to force through the offside. And from the final ball before the interval there was more joy for ...  

Similarly, when comparing the strike rates, in Table 2, other than Craig White, de Villiers, Dhoni and Craig Kieswetter, the ranks of individual batsmen don’t differ by much. The results seem to display that both average and strike-rate in one form of ...  

He took just three balls to register his first wicket — Sam Robson caught behind by Craig Kieswetter — and added Dawid Malan and Neil Dexter after tea. There might have been more had bad light not have forced an early finish. Second Division champions ...  

Craig Kieswetter contributed 83 to a fourth-wicket stand of 152, while Corey Collymore was the most successful bowler with three for 66. By the time rain and bad light ended play for the day just before 5pm, Middlesex had scored 38 for one in their second ...  

The onus was on all-rounder Pete Trego to lead the attack and the 30-year-old responded with the early wicket of former Somerset opener Neil Edwards, caught behind by Craig Kieswetter for 26 after edging a ball that left him off the seam. That ended an ...  

England one-day international wicketkeeper Craig Kieswetter (16) was the only batsman to reach double figures as only the rain halted their collapse after 19.2 overs. Durham's start to the new season was delayed by an hour and 15 minutes due to rain at ...  

First he tempted Cross to edge one that Craig Kieswetter caught thanks to a spectacular dive, before, seven balls later, the wicketkeeper pulled off a similarly impressive catch off Pete Trego’s bowling to remove Luke Procter (1). A further two balls ...  

With Chris Gayle due to arrive as one of Somerset's overseas players for the Twenty20 season – and Craig Kieswetter possibly opening the batting for England in the shorter forms of the game – Trescothick feels it would only be right for him to drop down.  

After lunch, a fourth- wicket partnership which added 51 runs was broken when Craig Kieswetter was caught off Lewis for 18. Chris Jones suffered the same fate and Somerset found themselves 100 for five, but Compton continued to bat patiently and moved to ...  

And after losing the toss, Durham's early-season woes with the bat continued as they were all out for 125, with Craig Kieswetter and Meschede's sixth-wicket partnership of 107 helping Somerset to 220 for eight. Only captain Phil Mustard and tail-ender ...  

Miller cannot have been overly impressed by the Craig Kieswetter's tally of 17 byes, either. Somerset had chances, too. Had Steve Kirby, in his follow through, been able to retain his footing, then he would surely have held on to the simplest of ...  

One of Philander’s victims was Steven Croft, who failed to add to his 113. Somerset wicketkeeper Craig Kieswetter took three catches, two of them brilliant diving efforts. But rain was always threatening and the players were forced off at 12.25pm.  

Nick Compton’s name is often overlooked when Somerset’s big-scoring batsmen are discussed – with Marcus Trescothick, Pete Trego, Jos Buttler, James Hildreth and Craig Kieswetter all more prominent in most conversations that cover that ground.