Rory Burns is an English cricketer. He is a left-handed batsman who opens the innings in first-class cricket and stands behind the stumps occasionally. Rory was born on 26th August 1990 in Surrey. H is a batsman of impressive consistency. His game is compact. He likes to build up his game generally with drives. His key strength in batting is patience as he can consistently leave the dangerous deliveries, pitching outside the off-stump. That is why he was called primarily a batsman ideal for Test cricket.

Rory Burns got severely injured following a collision with his Surrey teammate Moises Henriques as they both collided on a skier in the NatWest T20 final at Arundel in 2015. Both the players were taken to hospital with Henriques breaking his jaw and Burns cut near his left eye. Burns had to undergo many stitches to recover from the injury finally.

Burns, born in Surrey, studied at Surrey Whitgift School and there he played with England international Jason Roy. He made his debut in first-class cricket for Surrey against Cambridge MCCU in 2011 but he failed to impress, being able to manage only 23 and 16, respectively both the innings. In the next season, Burns established his place after scoring a century against Leeds Bradford MCCU and since then he was asked to open the innings. Burns finally finished the season as an opening batsman with 741 runs at an average of 49.40. Burns had the golden time in the next two seasons in 2013 and 2014, completing 1000 runs in a season for the first time in 2014. In the 2018 season, Burns led Surrey to clinch their County Championship title, for the first time since 2002 and in the process Burns scored over 1000 runs for the fifth consecutive season, finishing the overall season as Division One’s top run-scorer with 1359 runs at an average of 64.71. Burns has amassed 9618 runs in 139 first-class matches at an average of 42.18 including his best score of unbeaten 2019. He has scored 19 centuries and 53 fifties. In the List ‘A’ game Burns as scored 1722 runs in 57 matches at an average of 35.14 including 12 fifties.

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Rory Burns made his debut in Test against Sri Lanka in the first Test at Galle in 2018. He scored 9 in the first innings and 23 in the second innings. In the next year in 2019, Burns obtained his maiden century against Australia. In that home series against Australia, Burns had not only established himself as a batsman of perfect Test temperament, had also gathered more than 350 runs which Alastair Cook could not be able to do. Burns has played 21 Tests and scored 1233 runs at an average of32.44 including two centuries and his highest score of 133.

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Rory Burns has not yet played in One Day International and Twenty20 International. Rather he has taken part in 54 T20 matches and scored 640 runs.

Burns creates hope of a perfect opening batsman after Cook.