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Full name Stuart Charles Glyndwr MacGill
Born February 25, 1971, Mount Lawley, Perth, Western Australia
Current age 34 years 138 days
Major teams Australia, Devon, New South Wales, Nottinghamshire,
Somerset, Western Australia
Playing role Bowler
Batting style Right-hand bat
Bowling style Legbreak googly
Height 1.83 m
Relations Grandfather - CWT MacGill, Father - TMD MacGill
class mat inns no runs hs ave bf sr 100 50 4s 6s ct
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Tests 33 38 7 272 43 8.77 578 47.05 0 0 28 2 16 0
ODIs 3 2 1 1 1 1.00 3 33.33 0 0 0 0 2 0
First-class 148 178 46 1288 53 9.75 0 1 65 0
List A 99 38 17 157 26 7.47 0 0 22 0
Twenty-20 5 2 1 13 8* 13.00 11 118.18 0 0 1 0
class mat balls runs wkts bbi bbm ave econ sr 4 5 10
Tests 33 8729 4611 160 7/50 12/107 28.81 3.16 54.55 7 10 2
ODIs 3 180 105 6 4/19 4/19 17.50 3.50 30.00 1 0 0
First-class 148 33601 18840 640 8/111 29.43 3.36 52.50 38 6
List A 99 4802 3962 178 5/40 5/40 22.25 4.95 26.97 9 3 0
Twenty-20 5 104 144 6 3/42 3/42 24.00 8.30 17.33 0 0 0
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Test debut Australia v South Africa at Adelaide - Jan 30-Feb 3, 1998
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Last Test Australia v Pakistan at Sydney - Jan 2-5, 2005 scorecard
ODI debut Australia v Pakistan at Sydney - Jan 19, 2000 scorecard
Last ODI Australia v India at Adelaide - Jan 26, 2000 scorecard
First-class span 1993/94 - 2004/05
List A span 1997 - 2004/05
Twenty-20 span 2003
The praise lavished on his decision to boycott
Zimbabwe last year because of moral concerns continued an unwelcome
pattern in the life of Stuart MacGill: he has long generated
headlines for being out of the Australian team rather than for his
performances in it. An old-fashioned operator with a gargantuan
legbreak and majestic wrong'un, MacGill has the best strike-rate and
worst luck of any modern spin bowler. His misfortune has been to
play alongside Shane Warne in an age when Australia, the land of
Grimmett and O'Reilly, have paradoxically frowned on the concept of
fielding two wrist-spinners at once. After showing they could work
in tandem with 13 wickets against Pakistan at Sydney in January,
MacGill hoped - almost pleaded - for more double-act opportunities.
He has stayed philosophical throughout, eagerly running in and
invariably running amok in Warne's periodic absences. He bewitched
53 wickets in 11 Tests during Warne's 12-month drugs ban in 2003-04,
yet was maligned for bowling one boundary-ball per over; a shade
unfairly, considering that was the standard modus operandi for all
leggies pre-Warne. A batting duffer and increasingly feckless
fielder, he has played only three one-day internationals despite
collecting his domestic scalps at a stupefying rate of one every 27
balls. Unusually for a bowler, MacGill seldom smiles upon taking a
wicket. Instead he lets out a roar of accomplishment. "People ask me
why I don't smile - it's because it's really hard," he explained in
2003-04. "Test cricket's hard ... I'll take a wicket and there'll be
an explosion of emotion." It is one of MacGill's many quirks. He is
a wine connoisseur who only recently learned to enjoy the taste of
beer, and he once read 24 novels on a tour of Pakistan. The son and
grandson of West Australian state players, he socialises with
friends who aren't cricketers and is often portrayed as a thinker, a
misfit, the odd man out. It is something he plays down - although,
tellingly, no other Australian cricketer felt compelled by their
conscience to stand out of touring Zimbabwe.
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