Mason Crane joined on a season-long loan from Hampshire to play for Glamorgan in all three formats for the 2024 season.
As an eight-year-old only child watching the 2005 Ashes series, Mason Crane was inspired by the bewitching displays of Shane Warne. From that moment, he wanted to be a leg-spinner. Twelve years later, he made his England debut in Twenty20 cricket and to cap the summer, at 21, he was chosen for England's Ashes tour party.
With the help of Raj Maru, a former Hampshire left-arm spinner and the Hampshire academy spin coach, Darren Flint, he soon won England call-ups at England U-17 and U-19 level. Crane made his Hampshire 1st XI debut against Surrey at the Ageas Bowl and took 2 for 35 as he dismissed Kumar Sangakkara - quite a first wicket - with a rank full toss and Vikram Solanki, stumped in more orthodox fashion. A few weeks later, against Warwickshire at the Ageas Bowl, Crane became the youngest Hampshire player to take a five-wicket haul in the Championship.
A winter was planned with the former Australia leg-spinner Stuart MacGill in Sydney. Back-to-back seven-wicket hauls for Gordon CC in Australia earned him a call-up to the New South Wales side in the Sheffield Shield, making him the first overseas player since Imran Khan in 1984/85 to play State cricket in Australia and his reputation was further enhanced when he impressed in the 2017 North vs South series in the UAE. Ahead of an excellent 2017 Blast season, England gave him his first two T20Is the first on his home ground against South Africa, and AB de Villiers was his maiden international victim. Later that year, he was called up to the Ashes tour party and made his Test debut.
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