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Full name Stephen James Harmison
Born October 23, 1978, Ashington, Northumberland
Current age 26 years 263 days
Major teams England, Durham
Batting style Right-hand bat
Bowling style Right-arm fast
Relations Brother - J Harmison, Brother - BW Harmison
class mat inns no runs hs ave bf sr 100 50 4s 6s ct
st
Tests 30 37 11 287 42 11.03 514 55.83 0 0 37 6 4 0
ODIs 34 14 9 54 13* 10.80 92 58.69 0 0 2 0 8 0
Twenty-20 Int. 1 0 0 0 0 - 0 - 0 0 0 0 1 0
First-class 111 149 41 978 42 9.05 0 0 20 0
List A 88 38 19 105 13* 5.52 0 0 15 0
Twenty-20 2 0 0 0 0 - 0 - 0 0 0 0 1 0
class mat balls runs wkts bbi bbm ave econ sr 4 5 10
Tests 30 6612 3383 121 7/12 9/73 27.95 3.06 54.64 7 5 0
ODIs 34 1802 1435 50 5/33 5/33 28.69 4.77 36.03 2 1 0
Twenty-20 Int. 1 15 13 1 1/13 1/13 13.00 5.20 15.00 0 0 0
First-class 111 21698 11111 386 7/12 28.78 3.07 56.21 12 0
List A 88 4308 3442 112 5/33 5/33 30.73 4.79 38.46 4 1 0
Twenty-20 2 39 32 2 1/13 1/13 16.00 4.92 19.50 0 0 0
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Test debut England v India at Nottingham - Aug 8-12, 2002 scorecard
Last Test England v Bangladesh at Chester-le-Street - Jun 3-7, 2005
scorecard
ODI debut England v Sri Lanka at Brisbane - Dec 17, 2002 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 1996 - 2005
List A span 1998 - 2005
Twenty-20 span 2004 - 2005
Notes : NBC Denis Compton Award 1998
Wisden Cricketer of
the Year 2005
With his lofty, loose-limbed gait and his painful
capacity for jamming fingers against bat-handles, Steve Harmison had
for some time been drawing tongue-in-cheek comparisons to the great
Curtly Ambrose, when suddenly, in Jamaica in March 2004, he loped in
to produce a spell of irresistible fast bowling that Ambrose himself
could hardly have bettered. West Indies were blown away for 47, and
Harmison's figures of 7 for 12 were the best in Tests at Sabina
Park. It was a stunning riposte from a man who, only months earlier,
had flown home injured from England's tour of Bangladesh with
whispers about his attitude chasing him all the way. Harmison, who
was born in Ashington - the Northumberland village where the
footballing Charlton brothers first saw the light of day - was
barely 20 when he went with England A to South Africa in 1998-99,
but after that he was held back by a series of niggling injuries -
including somehow dislocating his shoulder when he caught his hand
in his trouser pocket while bowling - and a tendency to fall
homesick when confined to barracks on overseas tours. He eventually
broke into the Test team in mid-2002, after an injury to another
tearaway, Simon Jones, but for a long time he was no better than
promising, with a tendency to mix magical spells with moments when
the radar would go badly awry. But, in the Caribbean, the spiritual
home of the fast bowler, he seemed to have finally come of age. This
was borne out in the 2004 Test series against West Indies and New
Zealand, where he plundered wickets aplenty as England completed a
7-0 clean sweep of victories. But in South Africa the following
winter, the doubts crept back in and he after ending a miserable
Test series with a niggling calf strain, he admitted to the press
that he had been hoping to fail his fitness test in order to be
allowed home early. Against Bangladesh the following summer, he took
a cathartic five-wicket haul in front of his home crowd in Durham,
to confirm that his heart will always lie in the North-East
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