James Edward Kenneth Rew (born 11 January 2004) is an English cricketer who plays for Somerset. A wicketkeeper-batter, he progressed through age-group cricket into the senior county set-up at a young age.
In July 2021, Rew was named in the County Select XI squad to play a three-day match against India during their tour of England, and he made his first-class debut in that fixture on 20 July 2021. He made his List A debut on 1 August 2021 for Somerset in the 2021 Royal London One-Day Cup. In December 2021, he was selected in the England squad for the 2022 ICC Under-19 Cricket World Cup, held in the West Indies.
Rew made his Twenty20 debut on 27 May 2022 for Somerset against the Sri Lanka Cricket Development XI during their tour of England. In July 2022, he scored his maiden first-class century in a County Championship match against Essex.
He was included in the England Lions squad to tour Australia in January 2025. In May 2025, Rew became the youngest Englishman to score 10 first-class hundreds since Denis Compton in 1939. Later in the same month, he was called up to the England Test squad as an injury replacement for Jordan Cox.
Adapted from the English Wikipedia article on James Rew.