Frederick Jack Klaassen (born 13 November 1992) is an English-born Dutch international cricketer who plays for Kent County Cricket Club.[2] He made his List A debut for the Netherlands against Zimbabwe on 24 June 2017,[3] having played club cricket in England and New Zealand.[4]
In July 2018, he was named in the Netherlands' One Day International (ODI) squad, for their series against Nepal.[9] He made his ODI debut for the Netherlands against Nepal on 1 August 2018, taking 3/30 on debut.[10] In December he was named in the squad for the 2018–19 Oman Quadrangular Series, playing in all three of the Netherlands' matches during the tournament.[11]
In Dutch domestic cricket Klaassen has played for VOC Rotterdam, winning the Topklasse, the Dutch domestic title, with the club in 2018.[14] He was the leading bowler in the competition during the 2018 season, taking 29 wickets at an average of 14.10 runs per wicket.[1] In 2015 he played in New Zealand for Cornwall Cricket Club and in Scotland for East Kilbride Cricket Club and later played for Norwich Cricket Club in the East Anglian Premier Cricket League[5][12] Klaassen made 22 appearances, mainly in limited-overs matches, for Kent during th 2019 season and signed a contract extension with the club in January 2020, keeping him at Kent until 2022.[15] In the 2018/19 northern hemisphere winter he played in Australia for Monash Tigers in Victorian Premier Cricket.[16]