Delray Millard Wendell Rawlins (born 14 September 1997) is a Bermudian international

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er currently listed with Sussex in English

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. He made his senior debut for Bermuda's national team at the age of 15 (in February 2013), and has since made regular appearances for the team in international competitions. Rawlins has also played for the

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s, qualifying by attending an English boarding school. On 14 April 2017, he made his

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debut for Sussex in the

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. On 19 May 2017, he made his

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debut for Sussex against the South Africans team, during South Africa's tour of England.

Early life and domestic career

Rawlins was born in Bermuda, attending

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and playing his junior cricket for Warwick Workmen's Club and Pembroke Hamilton Club. He was inducted into the national youth programme at a young age, where he was coached by former national captain Clay Smith.Lawrence Trott
"Early success has Rawlins thinking big"
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, Rawlins won a scholarship to attend boarding school in England. He subsequently began studying at

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. Rawlins was inducted into the Sussex Cricket Academy in April 2015, and made his

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debut in July 2015. He signed a one-year professional contract in October 2016. He made his

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debut for Sussex in the

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on 2 August 2018. In the inaugural season of

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, he was signed by the

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International career

England U19

In May 2016, Rawlins was included in England's under-19 development programme. He participated in a training camp in

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later in the year and in December 2016 was selected in the England under-19s squad for a tour of India in early 2017. In the first international of the tour, against the India under-19s, Rawlins came in sixth in the batting order and scored 107 not out from 88 balls, including eight fours and five sixes. He followed up with 2/46 from ten overs in India's innings. Two games later, Rawlins scored 96 from 106 balls and took 2/30 from eight overs.

Bermuda

Rawlins made his senior debut for the Bermudian national team in February 2013 (aged 15), on a tour of

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. He was selected for a tour of the United States the following month, and then in May played two matches in the 2013 World Cricket League Division Three tournament (which Bermuda hosted). Later in 2013, Rawlins also represented the Bermuda under-19s at the

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in Canada and the ICC Americas under-20s at a

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tournament. He returned to the senior team for the 2014 WCL Division Four tournament in Malaysia, playing in all seven of Bermuda's matches. Rawlins has since represented Bermuda at the 2015 ICC Americas Twenty20 and 2016 WCL Division Four events.Miscellaneous matches played by Delray Rawlins
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of the

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tournament. He made his

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(T20I) debut for Bermuda against the

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on 18 August 2019. He was the leading run-scorer for Bermuda in the tournament, with 130 runs in five matches. In September 2019, he was named in Bermuda's squad for the

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tournament in the United Arab Emirates. Ahead of the tournament, the

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(ICC) named him as the key player in Bermuda's squad. He was the leading run-scorer for Bermuda in the tournament, with 131 runs in six matches. In November 2019, he was named in Bermuda's squad for the Cricket World Cup Challenge League B tournament in Oman. In October 2021, he was named in Bermuda's squad for the

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tournament in Antigua.

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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Rawlins, Delray 1997 births Living people Bermudian cricketers Bermuda Twenty20 International cricketers Bermudian expatriates in the United Kingdom People educated at St Bede's School, Hailsham Sussex cricketers Oxfordshire cricketers North v South cricketers Marylebone Cricket Club cricketers Southern Brave cricketers