Dominic Mark Bess (born July 22, 1997) is an English cricketer who plays for the Yorkshire County Cricket Club and England.

Early and personal life

From Sidmouth, Devon, Bess joined Somerset Academy at the age of 16. In 2015 he spent some time at Darren Lehmann's Adelaide Academy. When I was younger, I had a little pig, so I never took the long run, "he said." I always took five or six steps and just stepped in. "He was also an avid rugby player in his youth, playing fly-half and credits former Somerset fitness trainer Darren Veness as the greatest influence on his strength and conditioning improvements.

Cricket career

Domestic career

On July 3, 2016, Bess made his first-class debut for Somerset during the Pakistan tour of England. He failed to take a wicket (which ended with numbers 0-128) and scored a total of 25 runs. He made his T20 debut for Somerset in their final game of the 2016 season against Hampshire on July 29, 2016, in which he won bowling figures by 1-31 and scored a single run.

Championship debut
Bess picked up 13 wickets in the later stages of the 2016 County Championship. He was inducted into the team for his first championship game against Warwickshire. His first two championship wickets were Jonathan Trott and Ian Bell, and he picked up the best numbers of his career 6-28 from 16 overs in the first innings and finished with match numbers of 8-59 at 27 overs. Bess was also in Somerset's last game strongly represented the season against already relegated Nottinghamshire when he took his second career five wicket haul with 1st innings numbers of 5-43 from 22.5 overs including a spell of 5 consecutive Virgins, giving him match numbers of 5 -77 of 32.5 overs were there. He also scored 41 runs in Somerset's first innings.
At the end of the 2016 season, Bess signed his first professional contract with Somerset, signing a two-year deal; kept him at the club until the end of the 2018 season. In the 2017 season, Bess won 36 wickets in Division 1 of the district championship with an average of just 23.42. On May 8, 2019, Bess was loaned to Yorkshire for a month. In August 2020, Bess confirmed that they would be leaving Somerset at the end of the season, after which it was revealed that Bess had signed a four-year deal with Yorkshire.

International career

Having previously represented England at U-19 level, Bess was inducted into the England Lions squad for a game against the South African A Tour in the summer of 2017 despite not playing. He was then selected to join the Lions cadre for winter tours to Australia and the West Indies. He won 5/88 on his debut with the England Lions in Antigua.
Called up after an injury to his county teammate Jack Leach, Bess made his Test debut for England against Pakistan at Lord's on May 24, 2018. Despite sharing a century stand with Jos Buttler in England's second innings - with a score of 57 - Bess failed to take a wicket or prevent his side from succumbing to a nine-wicket loss. However, in the second test of the series, Bess took his first test wicket from Imam-ul-Haq. In total, he took 3 wickets in the match and contributed 49 with the bat as a night watchman. England won the game with one innings and 55 runs.
In January 2020, in the third Test against South Africa, Bess got his first five-wicket haul in Test cricket after the COVID-19 pandemic. On June 17, 2020, Bess joined England's 30-man squad to train behind closed doors for the test series against the West Indies. On July 4, 2020, Bess was named to England's 13-man squad for the series' first friendly.