Crane was a member of the
Hampshire County Cricket Club academy since the age of 14, where he was under the guidance of former Hampshire spinner
Rajesh Maru at
Lancing College,
West Sussex. Under Maru's guidance he impressed straight away despite concerns about his height and quickly he became a
leg break bowler with good control as well as a
googly. Crane has also been a member of
Sussex Cricket League club
Worthing Cricket Club since the age of 10, playing for the club's junior teams and also claiming 54 wickets for the Worthing CC 1st XI. Crane's good performance in the academy and guidance from Maru and Hampshire academy spin coach
Darren Flint earned him a call-up to the
England U17 development team. In the summer of 2014 Crane's continued good performances made him a regular in the Hampshire 2nd XI and earned him a call-up to the
England U19s for the tour of
Dubai and later the teams tour of
Australia to play the
Australia U19s. Crane was also called up to the first team squad for their trip to
Worcestershire in the
LV County Championship. Crane's performances in Australia were good, taking 2 wickets in 3 games in a series that England would lose 3–2. On 10 July 2015, Crane made his Hampshire 1st team debut in a
Natwest T20 Blast fixture against
Surrey at the
Ageas Bowl. Coming on in the 9th over of Surrey's innings with them chasing 187 runs for victory, Crane bowled well dismissing
Kumar Sangakkara and
Vikram Solanki in his allocated 4 over to finish with figures of 2/35 as Hampshire won by 29 runs. In December 2015 he was named in
England's squad for the
2016 Under-19 Cricket World Cup. In October 2016 Crane went to Sydney to play for
Gordon District Cricket Club in
Sydney Grade Cricket. In March 2017, Crane made his debut for
New South Wales, becoming the first overseas player to play for them since
Imran Khan in 1984, where he took match figures of 5/116 and remained 15
not out when batting. In April 2022, Crane was bought by the
London Spirit for the
2022 season of
The Hundred. That month, he was loaned to
Sussex for a month. In March 2024, Crane joined
Glamorgan on a season-long loan. In July that year he signed a three-year contract with the Welsh county. ==International career==