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Full name Andrew John Strauss
Born March 2, 1977, Johannesburg, Transvaal, South Africa
Current age 28 years 133 days
Major teams England, Middlesex
Batting style Left-hand bat
Bowling style Left-arm medium
class mat inns no runs hs ave bf sr 100 50 4s 6s ct
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Tests 14 26 2 1323 147 55.12 2623 50.43 5 5 169 3 19 0
ODIs 39 38 6 1228 152 38.37 1576 77.91 2 6 131 4 10 0
Twenty-20 Int. 1 1 0 18 18 18.00 16 112.50 0 0 0 0
First-class 101 177 12 7043 176 42.68 16 34 65 0
List A 140 133 11 3734 152 30.60 4 24 30 0
Twenty-20 8 8 0 212 60 26.50 163 130.06 0 2 4 0
class mat balls runs wkts bbi bbm ave econ sr 4 5 10
Tests 14 0 0 0 - - - - - 0 0 0
ODIs 39 6 3 0 - - - 3.00 - 0 0 0
Twenty-20 Int. 1 0 0 0 - - - - - 0 0 0
First-class 101 48 58 1 1/27 58.00 7.25 48.00 0 0
List A 140 6 3 0 - - - 3.00 - 0 0 0
Twenty-20 8 0 0 0 - - - - - 0 0 0
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Test debut England v New Zealand at Lord's - May 20-24, 2004
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Last Test England v Bangladesh at Chester-le-Street - Jun 3-7, 2005
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ODI debut Sri Lanka v England at Dambulla - Nov 18, 2003 scorecard
Last ODI England v Australia at The Oval - Jul 12, 2005 scorecard
Only Twenty-20 Int. England v Australia at Southampton - Jun 13,
2005 scorecard
First-class span 1998 - 2005
List A span 1997 - 2005
Twenty-20 span 2003 - 2005
Notes : Wisden Cricketer of the Year 2005
On May 21, 2004, playing against New Zealand, Andrew
Strauss wrote his name into the record-books when he became only the
fourth batsman to score a century at Lord's on his Test debut. It
was the culmination of a rapid rise to prominence for Strauss, who
as captain of Middlesex, was at least on familiar territory for the
big occasion. As a fluid and attractive left-hand opener, Strauss
knew all about pressure and how to handle it. His stock rose
exponentially in 2002 and 2003, following the unforeseen retirement
of Middlesex's captain, Angus Fraser, who swapped his sweater for a
laptop and took up the role of cricket correspondent for the
Independent newspaper. Strauss filled the breach admirably, and 1400
runs in his first full season in charge in 2003 proved that he was
not a man to be fazed by responsibility. He was born in Johannesburg
in March 1977, but is a very English product, having learned his
game at Radley College and Durham University - precisely the same
path taken by his county colleague Ben Hutton. At the crease, there
is something of the Graham Thorpe about Strauss's ability to
accumulate runs without recourse to big shots, and it was this trait
that earned him a place in England's one-day squad for the winter
tours in 2003-04. He finally got his chance in Sri Lanka when the
selectors' patience with Vikram Solanki ran out, and after cementing
his place with a pair of attractive sixties against West Indies, he
confirmed his star quality - and his affinity for Lord's - with a
hundred against the same opposition on his first one-day appearance
in front of his home crowd. He followed this up with another hundred
at Lord's, this time in a Test match against New Zealand, and in
doing so became only the fifth player to have scored their first
Test and one-day international hundreds on the same ground. Strauss
went on to have a scintillating summer for England, ratcheting up
runs against both New Zealand and West Indies, but that was only his
warm-up act. In South Africa that same winter, he won the first Test
singlehandedly with scores of 126 and 94 not out at Port Elizabeth,
and added two further hundreds in recording a phenomenal tally of
656 runs, as England completed a memorable 2-1 series win.
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