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Full name Glenn Donald McGrath
Born February 9, 1970, Dubbo, New South Wales
Current age 35 years 154 days
Major teams ICC World XI, Australia, Middlesex, New South Wales,
Worcestershire
Playing role Bowler
Batting style Right-hand bat
Bowling style Right-arm fast-medium
Height 1.83 m
Education Narromine Primary; Narromine High School
class mat inns no runs hs ave bf sr 100 50 4s 6s ct
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Tests 109 120 42 556 61 7.12 1332 41.74 0 1 44 1 34 0
ODIs 214 58 31 102 11 3.77 206 49.51 0 0 7 0 31 0
Twenty-20 Int. 2 1 0 5 5 5.00 12 41.66 0 0 1 0
First-class 173 175 58 892 61 7.62 0 2 49 0
List A 265 68 36 110 11 3.43 238 46.21 0 0 41 0
Twenty-20 2 1 0 5 5 5.00 12 41.66 0 0 1 0
class mat balls runs wkts bbi bbm ave econ sr 4 5 10
Tests 109 25509 10592 499 8/24 10/27 21.22 2.49 51.12 25 26 3
ODIs 214 11215 7225 324 7/15 7/15 22.29 3.86 34.61 9 7 0
Twenty-20 Int. 2 48 79 5 3/31 3/31 15.80 9.87 9.59 0 0 0
First-class 173 37863 15739 767 8/24 20.52 2.49 49.36 39 7
List A 265 13819 8681 398 7/15 7/15 21.81 3.76 34.72 15 7 0
Twenty-20 2 48 79 5 3/31 3/31 15.80 9.87 9.59 0 0 0
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Test debut Australia v New Zealand at Perth - Nov 12-16, 1993
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Last Test New Zealand v Australia at Auckland - Mar 26-29, 2005
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ODI debut Australia v South Africa at Melbourne - Dec 9, 1993
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Last ODI England v Australia at The Oval - Jul 12, 2005 scorecard
Twenty-20 Int. debut New Zealand v Australia at Auckland - Feb 17,
2005 scorecard
Last Twenty-20 Int. England v Australia at Southampton - Jun 13,
2005 scorecard
First-class span 1992/93 - 2004/05
List A span 1992/93 - 2005
Twenty-20 span 2004/05 - 2005
Notes : Wisden Cricketer of the Year 1998
Wisden Australia Cricketer of the Year 1999
Allan Border Medal 2000
The young Glenn McGrath was described by Mike
Whitney as "thin - but Ambrose-thin, not Bruce Reid-thin". Much
later, Mike Atherton compared McGrath to Ambrose on a vaster scale.
Catapulted from the outback of New South Wales into Test cricket to
replace Merv Hughes in 1993, McGrath became, after a faltering
start, the great Australian paceman of his time. He bowls an
unremitting off-stump line and an immaculate length, gains offcut
and bounce, specialises in the opposition's biggest wickets -
especially Atherton's and Brian Lara's - is unafraid to back himself
publicly in these key duels, and has shown himself to be unusually
durable. He is a batting rabbit who applied himself so intently that
while playing for Worcestershire he won a bet with an Australian
teammate by scoring a fifty. The work eventually paid off in Tests
when he made 61, the third-highest score by a No. 11, against New
Zealand in 2004-05. Only in his occasional fits of ill-temper does
he fail himself. He rewrote the World Cup record-books in 2003 with
7 for 15 against the outclassed Namibians, on his way to adding
another winner's medal to a bulging collection. An ankle injury
threatened to derail his quest for 500 Test wickets, but after
briefly contemplating retirement he bounced back with yet another
five-wicket haul against Sri Lanka at Darwin in July 2004. Three
months later, at Nagpur, he became the first fast bowler to play 100
matches in the baggy green, and his greatness was further confirmed
at Perth in December when knocking down the brittle Pakistanis with
8 for 24, the second-best figures by an Australian.
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