Early Life

Bell-Drummond was born in Lewisham, south-east London in 1993. His parents are of Jamaican descent and he has described how watching both West Indian and English cricket at home influenced his development. Spotted by Kent County Cricket Club while playing for Catford Wanderers as a seven-year-old, he progressed through the county system, scoring his first century for the under-10 side aged just seven. He played for Kent age group teams and scored centuries at all levels before moving to Cricket Academy in Kent where he was awarded the John Aitken Gary Trophy for Academy Scholar of the Year in 2010. He signed a three-year professional deal with Kent in September 2010 at the age of 17.

Bell-Drummond attended Dulwich Prep and won a scholarship to Millfield School and played cricket for the school team and for England at U15, U17 and U19 levels and captained the U17 team against Sri Lanka in 2010. He graduated in 2012 left the school after signing his professional contract with Kent and was named Young Wisden Schools Cricket Player of the Year in the 2012 Wisden edition after scoring over 800 runs for Millfield in 2011.

England Youth Cricket

After representing England at U15 and U17 levels, Bell-Drummond played for the England U19 cricket team against Sri Lanka in 2010. He made his Youth Test debut on 21 July 2010 at the County Ground in Northampton before scoring an unbeaten 88 in the second Youth Test later that same month, aged just 16. He played in both U19 friendly matches and four one-day international youth matches during England's return trip to Sri Lanka in January and February 2011.

In July 2011, Bell-Drummond played South Africa's U19s in a one-day series. He scored the top goals for England in three of the seven games in the series and was the team's leading run scorer in the series, hitting 329 runs in seven innings with a 47.00 average.

After touring Bangladesh with the England U19 side in January and February 2012 and again leading the team in runs and playing in all seven youth ODIs, Bell-Drummond played in a four-way 50-over -Competition against Australia, India and Australia New Zealand U19 players in North Queensland in April 2012. He was the competition's top run scorer with 287 runs with a 95.66 average including a 103 match win against Australia in an innings when the second highest score for The England team was 28 years old. Later that same month, he was described as "perhaps the most exciting young batsman in the country" and was called up to the England team for the 2012 U19 World Cup, held in Queensland in August 2012. By him standards, he had a disappointing tournament after being dubbed "one of the batsmen to watch".

Senior Cricket Career

Bell-Drummond made his first-class cricket debut for Kent aged 17 in a varsity game against Loughborough MCCU in May 2011, scoring 80 runs from 103 balls. In July of that year, he made his senior List A cricket debut in a Clydesdale Bank 40 match against Worcestershire before playing in three County Championship matches for Kent towards the end of the 2011 season. He spent most of the 2012 season playing for Kent's Second XI and only played two top-flight games during the season, including against the touring South Africans in Canterbury.

In April 2013 he celebrated his first top-flight century against a Cardiff University side and used the innings to become a regular for Kent's side in the 2013 season. After cementing his place with the Kent side in all forms of cricket and scoring a century against the touring Australian side in June 2015, Bell-Drummond were awarded their County Cap in August 2015. In August 2015 he became assistant emergency wicket-keeper in a Kents County Championship match at Derby when Sam Billings suffered a finger injury and kept the wicket until Ryan Davies came from the second XI to act as a substitute. He represented again in May 2017 when Adam Rouse injured his thumb and took a hook behind the stumps.

In December 2015, Bell-Drummond played his first game for the England Lions against the United Arab Emirates in a T20 match in Dubai. He scored 5 runs from 5 deliveries, which opened up the batting. Later that same month, he played Pakistan A in the final game of the five-game T20 series, scoring 17 runs.

Bell-Drummond got off to a stellar start to the 2016 domestic season, scoring his first top-flight double hundred against Loughborough MCCU, followed by a century in his first innings of the County Championship season against Leicestershire. He and Tom Latham then combined for two partnerships in the first wicket century in Kent's opening Championship game at home against Glamorgan, only the third time this has been achieved in the same Championship game in county history. Bell-Drummond was selected again for the England Lions in the summer of 2016, playing limited-overs matches against Pakistan A and Sri Lanka A. He achieved his highest List A cricket score of 171, without during the series of matches against Sri to quit Lanka A in Canterbury when he teamed up with Ben Duckett to release the second-highest List A partnership ever.

In the 2016–17 English off-season, Bell-Drummond was selected again for the Lions, playing UAE in Dubai in December and Sri Lanka A in List A games in March, scoring in the 4th game of the series he became a century also selected to play in the United Arab Emirates in the North vs South pre-season series.

Daniel Bell-Drummond BPL Bell-Drummond was signed from the Rajshahi Kings as an injury guard during the 2017–18 Bangladesh Premier League season. He made his debut in the competition on November 21, 2017, although he only played once for the team. After playing for Kent in the 2017–18 Caribbean regional Super50 competition, he played in Barbados' North vs. South preseason series and captained the MCC side in the Champion County game.

Good form in one-day cricket during the 2018 promotion season was followed by Bell-Drummond, who signed a new long-term contract with Kent in the 2018–19 off-season, despite only averaging 19.82 in the County Championship and failing to score had a century in first-class cricket for the last two seasons. In the off-season he played Sydney Grade cricket for Randwick Petersham Cricket Club and, a century after making his debut in first grade competition before being signed, conceded for Auckland in the later stages of the 2018–19 New Zealand Super Smash T20 competition to play .

In the 2019 season, Bell-Drummond led Kent's drummer, scoring the club's best 987 runs in first-class cricket. He ended his season without top-notch hundreds, scoring a century against Warwickshire and registering his highest county championship finish at 166 runs. He scored six half-centuries in first-class cricket, was Kent's leading T20 run scorer and scored a century in the Royal London Cup competition, averaging more than 60 runs per innings in four games in the competition. In the abridged 2020 season, Bell-Drummond was again Kent's leading T20 run scorer despite not scoring a first-class half century, playing in all five of Kent's games and managing the side in the absence of both club captains Sam Billings and Joe Denly, both of whom were in English service. In the 2020/21 off-season, he played for Colombo Kings in the inaugural season of the Lanka Premier League.

In February 2021, he was drafted by Birmingham Phoenix for The Hundred's inaugural season. He played in the team's first three group stage games but failed to hit more than 12 runs in an innings.

Daniel Bell-Drummond The Hundred 2022 In April 2022 he was bought by London Spirit for the 2022 season of The Hundred.

Platform Cricket Project

In 2017, Bell-Drummond founded Platform, a cricket project which aims to increase young people's participation in sport in the London Borough of Lewisham, the area where he grew up. The project involves reintroducing the sport into local primary schools and includes after-school and winter coaching. It ran a cricket festival for school children in Deptford in 2018 and was initially funded by Bell-Drummond and a business partner. Lewisham is a relatively low-income London borough with a significant Afro-Caribbean population and the initiative has been influenced in part by a decline in participation in cricket among the Afro-Caribbean population. In 2018, it was revealed that Bell-Drummond was one of only eight black or mixed-race cricketers to compete in the County Championship, with only three, including Bell-Drummond, being aged 25 or under. A 2020 study found that Bell-Drummond was one of only nine black players to compete in the County Championship in the 2019 season, down from 33 in 1995.

Career Bests

As of April 2021, Bell-Drummond has achieved 11 first-class centuries, including a double century. His highest score of 206 Not Out came at the start of the 2016 season at the St. Lawrence Ground in Canterbury against Loughborough MCC University. He scored his first first-class century early in the 2013 season against Cardiff MCC University.

Daniel Bell-Drummond Cricketer has scored six centuries on List A, with a highest score of 171, which he did not score for the England Lions in 2016, and a T20 century, a score of 112, which he achieved at the Nevill Ground, Tunbridge Wells, against Surrey in 2016 scored In 2017 he and Joe Denly set Kent's record twinning for each wicket in T20 cricket, adding 207 runs for the first wicket against Essex at Chelmsford. This was a world record opening partnership in Twenty20 cricket and the world's third highest for each wicket in that format. Earlier that same season he and Denly had recorded 163 runs against Surrey for the first wicket at The Oval, setting Kent's highest partnership for a wicket to date.

Although Bell-Drummond has bowled regularly in age-group cricket, he has rarely bowled in senior cricket, citing a number of injury concerns as the main reason for not doing so. He took his first professional wicket in 2018 and began bowling rather more frequently at the start of the 2019 season. During Kent's 2019 Royal London One-Day Cup campaign, his slippery right-arm sears won five wickets and contributed wickets at District Championship. His best first class bowling numbers of two wickets for six runs came against Loughborough MCCU earlier in the 2019 season, while during the One-Day Cup of the same season he won 2/22 against Surrey, his list A. and 2. best bowling numbers /19 against Somerset in the 2019 t20 blast, his first T20 wickets.