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Dav Whatmore

Australia

Full name Davenell Frederick Whatmore

Born March 16, 1954, Colombo, Ceylon

Current age 55 years 237 days

Major teams Australia, Victoria

Batting style Right-hand bat

Other Coach

Batting and fielding averages

	Mat	Inns	NO	Runs	HS	Ave	BF	SR	100	50	4s	6s	Ct
Tests	7	13	0	293	77	22.53			0	2	36	0	13
ODIs	1	1	0	2	2	2.00	6	33.33	0	0	0	0	0
First-class	108	189	9	6116	170	33.97			10	35			146
List A	26	24	0	464	99	19.33			0	2			8

Bowling averages

	Mat	Inns	Balls	Runs	Wkts	BBI	BBM	Ave	Econ	SR	4w	5w	10
Tests	7	1	30	11	0	-	-	-	2.20	-	0	0	0
ODIs	1	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
First-class	108		275	109	4	1/0		27.25	2.37	68.7		0	0
List A	26		6	3	1	1/3	1/3	3.00	3.00	6.0	0	0	0

Career statistics

Test debut	Australia v Pakistan at Melbourne, Mar 10-15, 1979 scorecard
Last Test	India v Australia at Mumbai, Nov 3-7, 1979 scorecard
Test statistics
Only ODI	Australia v West Indies at Sydney, Jan 18, 1980 scorecard
ODI statistics
First-class span	1975/76 - 1988/89
List A span	1976/77 - 1987/88

Profile

Dav Whatmore was born in Sri Lanka before emigrating to Australia as a child. A right-handed batsman and brilliant slip fieldsman, he scored prolifically in the Sheffield Shield for Victoria, going onto play seven Test matches for Australia during the Packer era with modest success. He retired in 1988-89 to pursue a career in coaching.

He masterminded Sri Lanka's famous World Cup win in 1996, and after a brief spell at Lancashire - where he saw them win a one-day double in 1998, and the National League in 1999 - went back for a second term. His greatest challenge, however, came in 2003, when he took over as Bangladesh's coach, and immediately brought a new optimism and discipline to a team that had not won a single match for four years.

But Bangladesh continued to be routinely beaten (often by huge margins), although Whatmore was adamant that the team would turn the corner. Finally, the moment that Bangladesh cricket had been waiting for arrived, when they beat Zimbabwe at Chittagong, and went on to claim their first series win by drawing at Dhaka - Whatmore joining in the joyous scenes on the outfield. He has also improved their one-day fortunes, a victory over India and a comeback from 2-0 down to beat Zimbabwe suggested Whatmore's optimism was bringing rewards.

There continued to be ups and downs. In 2005 his side memorably beat Australia at Cardiff and the following year they gave account a good account of themselves in a home Tests series against the same opposition. But they also struggled against Zimbabwe in the same year. At the 2007 World Cup Bangladesh beat India, helping to send their neighbours packing, and qualified for the Super Eights. It wasn't enough to keep Whatmore interested, and he quit at the end of the tournament.
Cricinfo staff April 2007