Angus Fraser

Infobox cricketer biography
playername = Angus Fraser


country = England
fullname = Angus Robert Charles Fraser
nickname = Gus, Gnat
living = true
dayofbirth = 8
monthofbirth = 8
yearofbirth = 1965
placeofbirth = Billinge, Lancashire
countryofbirth = England
heightft = 6
heightinch = 6
batting = Right-handed
bowling = Right arm fast-medium
role = Bowler, commentator
international = true
testdebutdate = 6 July
testdebutyear = 1989
testdebutagainst = Australia
testc

lasttestdate = 26 December
lasttestyear = 1998
lasttestagainst = Australia
odidebutdate = 15 October
odidebutyear = 1989
odidebutagainst = Sri Lanka
odic

lastodidate = 29 May
lastodiyear = 1999
lastodiagainst = India
club1 = Middlesex
year1 = 1984 – 2002
deliveries = balls
columns = 4
column1 = Tests
matches1 = 46
runs1 = 388
bat avg1 = 7.46
100s/50s1 = 0/0
top score1 = 32
deliveries1 = 10876
wickets1 = 177
bowl avg1 = 27.32
fivefor1 = 13
tenfor1 = 2
best bowling1 = 8/53
catches/stumpings1 = 9/–
column2 = ODI
matches2 = 42
runs2 = 141
bat avg2 = 12.81
100s/50s2 = 0/0
top score2 = 38*
deliveries2 = 2392
wickets2 = 47
bowl avg2 = 30.04
fivefor2 = 0
tenfor2 = 0
best bowling2 = 4/22
catches/stumpings2 = 5/–
column3 = FC
matches3 = 290
runs3 = 2934
bat avg3 = 11.19
100s/50s3 = 0/2
top score3 = 92
deliveries3 = 56281
wickets3 = 886
bowl avg3 = 27.40
fivefor3 = 36
tenfor3 = 5
best bowling3 = 8/53
catches/stumpings3 = 54/–
column4 = LA
matches4 = 336
runs4 = 865
bat avg4 = 11.68
100s/50s4 = 0/0
top score4 = 38*
deliveries4 = 17112
wickets4 = 392
bowl avg4 = 26.49
fivefor4 = 1
tenfor4 = 0
best bowling4 = 5/32
catches/stumpings4 = 56/–
date = 11 April
year = 2008
source = http://content-aus.cricinfo.com/ci/content/player/12909.html Cricinfo

Angus Robert Charles Fraser born 8 August 1965, in Billinge Higher End, Wigan, Lancashire, is a former English cricketer who attended the John Lyon School in Harrow, Middlesex.

Perhaps his finest hour came in the Barbados Test match of the 1993/94 West Indies tour, when Fraser took 8-75 in the first innings to help set up a famous victory, West Indies' first defeat at Bridgetown for more than half a century. His career-best first-class cricket figures, 8-53, were also taken in a Test against the same opposition, this time at Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago in 1997/98. Despite taking eight wickets in an innings, he did not win the Man of the Match award, which went to Carl Hooper from the winning West Indies side.

His ODI high score of 38 not out, scored late in the innings at No. 10 and including a massive six off Steve Waugh, almost brought England back from the brink of defeat against Australia during the 1990/91 tour (Australia won by three runs). Another fine moment with the bat was in a last-wicket second-innings stand with Robert Croft to save the third Test at Old Trafford against South Africa in 1998.

Despite his Lancashire birthplace, Fraser played all of his county cricket for Middlesex, in a first-class career running from 1984 to 2002.He served as the county captain from 2001 until his retirement in 2002, when he was appointed as the cricket correspondent of "The Independent" newspaper. He is also a regular contributor to the BBC's Test Match Special.

In the 1996 edition of Wisden, he was one of the Wisden Cricketers of the Year

He currently now resides in Pinner with his wife and two children, Alexander and Bethan.

External links

* [http://content.cricinfo.com/england/content/player/12909.html Cricinfo page on Angus Fraser]

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