Will Jacks

About Will Jacks

Will Jacks is an international cricketer from England, listed as a batting allrounder. Career years: 2022 - 2026. Batting style: right-hand bat. Bowling style: right-arm offbreak. Age: 27 (born 1998-11-21). Career highlights — ODI: 629 runs at avg 33.1; T20I: 630 runs at avg 22.5. Explore complete career numbers, debut matches and match-by-match form below.

Will Jacks biography

Will Jacks - IPL factfile

- Will Jacks made his maiden IPL appearance when RCB bought him for INR 3.20 crore for the 2024 season.

- He batted at No. 3 in his eight innings that season with the highlight being an unbeaten hundred off 41 balls, while batting with Virat Kohli against Gujarat Titans in a successful chase of 201 in just 16 overs.

- He was released by RCB after the season, and Mumbai Indians (MI) bought him in the 2025 auction for INR 2 crore. He played 13 of the 14 games in 2025 but wasn't a big hit with the bat (233 runs, strike rate 135.46) although he chipped in with six wickets and was relatively economical.

Will Jacks player profile

It was a quirk of circumstance that Will Jacks' first standout performance as an England player was a six-wicket haul in a Test match rather than a characteristically dominant white-ball innings. Jacks became the first England debutant spinner since 1993 to claim a five-for on Test debut in 2022, setting up a famous win in Rawalpindi. Not only was it his maiden first-class five-for, he was not even meant to be in the side: he was a late change to the side before the toss with Ben Foakes ruled out through illness.

But though his offspin is more than serviceable - and earned him an unlikely recall to England's Test squad for the 2025-26 Ashes - Jacks is primarily a powerful top-order batter who had long been tipped for the top. He shot to mainstream attention on Surrey's pre-season tour in 2019, when he hit a 25-ball hundred in a T10 friendly against Lancashire in Dubai, by which stage he had graduated from a spell with England's Under-19s which included a century against India in a Youth Test and the vice-captaincy at the 2018 World Cup.

Jacks played for Surrey in all three formats in the Championship-winning season of 2018, at the age of 19, and by his early 20s was an established first-team regular. He earned his Test call-up for England's 2022 Pakistan tour after an impressive all-round season for Surrey, developing his offspin under head coach Gareth Batty's tutelage, and also won caps for the T20I and ODI teams. He was also the second man to score a century in the Hundred, playing for Oval Invincibles against defending champions Southern Brave.