Famous English cricket player: Mike Gatting
by MairaS on July 5, 2011
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Mike Gatting is known to be a bold and dynamic player of the English cricket team. He played for England between 1977 and 1996, and led the national side as a captain in 23 Test matches during 1986 to 1988. Today, he is working as the ECB Managing Director of Cricket Partnership.
Looking back at Gatting’s playing career, he was quite a productive batsman in domestic cricket. However, it took him some while to carve a firm niche in the English cricket team. Nonetheless, in 1986-87, Gatting was given the responsibility to captain the team for the victory of the Ashes series. It was in June 1993 when during England’s first innings, Gatting faced Shane Warne’s first bowling delivery during an Ashes innings as Gatting was dismissed with the accuracy Warne pitched the ball outside the leg stump and spun it past the player’s bat. This delivery by Warne is regarded as the Ball of the Century at times.
During the course of a one day match in 1986, playing against West Indies, Gatting’s nose was crushed due to the ruthless delivery by Malcolm Marshall. On the whole, Gatting was quite a fertile right-arm medium-pace bowler. His finest performance of bowling was when he played against South Africa during an ODI where his feat of 6-26 contributed to his team’s victory.
He was also awarded with an OBE and was amongst the five Wisden Cricketers of the Year in 1984. After announcing his retirement from first-class cricket back in 1998, Gatting has been working as a coach and a commentator ever since.
Greatest English cricket player: David Ivon Gower
by MairaS on July 3, 2011
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David Ivon Gower who is an ex-English cricketer and subsequently was appointed as a commentator for Sky Sports is quite a recognized figure in the world of cricket. It was during the 1980s that he was upgraded to the level of captain of the English cricket team; Gower has relished more popularity for being one of the finest left-handed batsman of the new era.
With 117 Test matches in hand and scoring of a spectacular 8,231 runs, Gower is regarded as highest scoring cricketers and most capped player in the history of the English team. He is also counted as the most capped ODI players, having participated in 114 One Day Internationals. During the series of the Ashes in 1985, Gower contributed immensely to England’s win against Australia. He left the realm of cricket with an inspiring first-class cricket record which consists of 26,339 runs including 53 centuries at an average of 40.08.
On retirement, Gower continued being a highly acclaimed commentator while in July 2009, was given the prestigious induction into the ICC Cricket Hall of Fame. Not to forget the award for the Office of the Most Excellent OBE (Order of the British Empire) in 1992. All these together make this strong cricketer’s profile unforgettable and an overwhelmingly an inspiring one.
Famous English cricket player: Darren Gough
by MairaS on July 2, 2011
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Darren Gough, a former captain of the Yorkshire County Cricket Club, is a retired player of the English cricket team. For most part of the 1990s, Gough led the bowling attack for his team and thereby stands as the highest wicket-taker in ODIs with 234 wickets and in 58 Test matches, he bagged 229 wickets. Such feats won him the standing of being England’s 9th most successful wicket-taker.
Being a right-handed batsman and a right-arm fast-medium bowler, Gough possessed a good approach to the wicket and had a leaping sideways on-action. His bowling style was this referred to as skiddy fast bowling. Darren Gough earned most of his wickets through lbw, largely because of inswinging delivery. It was in 1994 when he was first selected for the English team after which he then played for Test and ODI cricket, both. In 2005, Gough also played for the World XI in World Cricket Tsunami Appeal, an ODI against the Asian XI.
Gough announced his retirement at the end of the season of 2008. In mid 2009, he became a supporter of the Conservative party and in 2011, David Cameron invited to be a part of the Conservative Party in the Barnsley Central by-election which was later declined owing to his other commitments.
Best English cricket players: Brian Christopher Broad
by MairaS on July 2, 2011
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Brian Christopher Broad, a former cricketer of the English Test cricket team, was an opening batsman and had a 25 match long international Test career in the course of which he made 6 centuries along with his participation in 34 ODIs with a reasonable enough average of above 40.
Broad is extensively renowned for his achievement during the Ashes series in 1986 where he made 3 impressive centuries in successive series of Tests while he demonstrated an overwhelming presence at the crease. From this point onwards, Broad became a Test official. His first-class Test debut came in 1979 when he played for Gloucestershire and won him a secure standing in the team the following summer season. When it comes to International cricket, Broad was an aggressive left-handed opening batsman and made his Test debut in 1984 for England.
It was in 2003 when Broad became an ICC Test official wherein he performed as a match referee for the Tests and ODIs. This includes the match played for the World Cricket Tsunami Appeal while he served as a match referee in the World Cup Super Eights played between WI and Australia.
He is still referred to as a player who had an influential presence on the field with a devastating aura around him.
Cricketer profile- Popular English cricket player: Andrew Richard Caddick
by MairaS on July 2, 2011
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Andrew Richard Caddick is a retired English cricket player who was extensively recognized for his fast-medium bowling style. He was in fact a successful bowler the English cricket team had for more than a period of 10 years. He took 13 five-wicket hauls in Test innings and throughout his domestic first-class cricket career for England, Caddick played at Somerset County Cricket Club.
Andrew Caddick was a natural born talent who honed his performances with every step. His feats were outstanding while the highlight of his first ODI being an unbeaten score of 20 with batting and acquired a bowling hit of 1/13 off three overs against Indian cricket team. Caddick made his County championship debut in the season of 1992 wherein he bagged a good number of wickets: 4/96 against Gloucestershire. This subsequently followed with his maiden 10 wicket haul playing against Kent and had earned an honorable 71 wickets at 27.01 by the end of the season. This won him a county cap and secured his seat in the English A squad on the tour of Australia. This was a breakthrough for Caddick who outshone with his superb first-class bowling with an average of 28.60 which was the best that the English cricket team had had. His outstanding demeanor called him aboard for the Test and one day teams for the Ashes in 1993.
Somerset had a very happening playing career and had quite a lot of achievements in his bag. In 1999 and in 2009, he was awarded benefit seasons by Somerset. By early August 2009, Caddick announced his retirement from first-class cricket which left behind memories of one of the best bowlers in the history of English cricket team.