England Ashes hero Zak Crawley’s dad is legendary City trader who ‘made £23m in one year’
ENGLAND Ashes hero Zak Crawley has been knocking it out of the park against Australia.
But his father is another big hitter, reportedly making £23million in one year to become a legendary City trader.
Crawley, 25, is looking to help England win the Ashes for the first time since 2015.
And he played a huge role in Day One’s stunning 393-8 declaration at Edgbaston, helping himself to 61 runs.
But Crawley knows a thing or two about working hard for success from his dad.
Terry Crawley started as a £100-a-week Bermondsey carpet fitter.
He then entered the financial world by taking a job with Tullet & Tokyo on the London Futures Exchange.
Crawley Sr later set up firm Crawley Futures in 1988.
And fellow financial stars soon nicknamed him ‘Terry the Till’ due to his ability for making cash.
One rival even admitted Crawley Sr “dominated the pit” after becoming known as the man who went from ‘Rugs to Riches’.
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He made £8m in 1996 before earning £5.2m in 1997 and £2.8m in 1998.
But it was in 1999 that Crawley’s dad struck it big by reportedly raking in a massive £23m.
The jackpot saw him end up being named by the Sunday Times rich list as the fifth highest-paid person in the UK.
Only legendary musicians Elton John, Sting, Eric Clapton and Phil Collins were ahead of Crawley Sr.
And following the birth of England star Zak the previous year, Crawley Sr then helped his son become cricket’s latest icon.
England managing director Rob Key told Sky Sports: “You need your parents to just play with you as a kid, to take you down to the nets.
“It’s not about what the kids are sacrificing; they’re having fun. You have to sacrifice as a parent and Zak’s parents have done a hell of a lot of that.
“I can only really talk about what Zak’s dad is like and what his mum is like, and they’re not pushy parents.
“They just try and give him every opportunity they can. Wherever there was a game, they’d take him to it. If he ever wants to go hit some balls, they’d do that with him.”
Crawley Sr even kept his son motivated during the Covid lockdown, with Zak telling the Times: “Dad would give me a few throw-downs to make sure I could feel bat on ball and I worked on my fitness.
“But I also started to think about the game a lot. My dad thinks about it a lot too so I bounced ideas around with him.
“I felt like I had a good plan about how I would go about things when cricket restarted. I loved talking to him about how I should be as a sportsman, how I should behave.”