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Full name Cameron Leon White
Born August 18, 1983, Bairnsdale, Victoria
Current age 21 years 329 days
Major teams Australia, Victoria
Batting style Right-hand bat
Bowling style Legbreak googly
Height 1.87 m
class mat inns no runs hs ave bf sr 100 50 ct st
First-class 37 58 6 1443 119 27.75 2689 53.66 1 8 44 0
List A 35 28 3 480 61 19.19 648 74.07 0 3 9 0
Twenty-20 1 1 1 58 58* - 38 152.63 0 1 1 0
class mat balls runs wkts bbi bbm ave econ sr 4 5 10
First-class 37 5401 3102 88 6/66 35.25 3.44 61.37 1 1
List A 35 1285 1114 31 4/15 4/15 35.93 5.20 41.45 2 0 0
Twenty-20 1 24 23 1 1/23 1/23 23.00 5.75 24.00 0 0 0
First-class span 2000/01 - 2004/05
List A span 2001/02 - 2004/05
Twenty-20 span 2004/05
Ginger-haired and level-headed, Cameron White has
long seemed destined to play a significant role in Australia's
future. Only the precise nature of that role has baffled his
admirers. Nagging legspinner? Solid middle-order bat? Intuitive
skipper? Or a bit of all three? The over-eager Shane Warne
comparisons that festooned his first-class arrival have long since
died away. Indeed White is a peculiarly unAustralian-style
legspinner, tall and robust, relying on changes of pace and a handy
wrong'un rather than prodigious turn or flight. He bowls a good line
and does a neat line in self-deprecation too: "There's no flippers
or anything exciting like that in my repertoire," he professed a
while back, "I'm just trying to get my leggie right." What is not in
doubt is his cricket sense, nor his maturity. Captaining Victoria in
2003-04 at the age of 20, the youngest skipper in their history, he
won rave reviews for his cool head and warm handling of more
hardened contemporaries. For all that, he remains a largely
unassuming country lad. Picked to tour Zimbabwe when Stuart MacGill
withdrew for moral reasons, White cancelled a fishing trip to attend
the press conference then boyishly shrugged aside questions about
the circumstances of his selection: "I don't really know very much
about politics." He was chosen as much for his no-frills batting as
his bowling; David Hookes, the late Victorian coach, felt White's
best chance of representing Australia was to earn a top-six spot. As
far back as December 2002 his hero, Shane Warne, had predicted: "I
think he's a [future] Australian player provided he sticks to the
way he plays and doesn't try to be someone different." Exactly who
that someone is should become clearer any day now.
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