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Paul Nixon

England

Full name Paul Andrew Nixon

Born October 21, 1970, Carlisle, Cumberland

Current age 39 years 21 days

Major teams England, Delhi Giants, Kent, Leicestershire

Nickname Badger, Nico

Batting style Left-hand bat

Fielding position Wicketkeeper

Height 6 ft 0 in

Education Ullswater High

Batting and fielding averages

	Mat	Inns	NO	Runs	HS	Ave	BF	SR	100	50	4s	6s	Ct	St
ODIs	19	18	4	297	49	21.21	347	85.59	0	0	21	7	20	3
T20Is	1	1	1	31	31*	-	22	140.90	0	0	2	1	0	1
First-class	335	499	110	13486	173*	34.66			20	65			885	67
List A	401	344	71	7134	101	26.13			1	33			417	99
Twenty20	60	56	11	1095	65	24.33	933	117.36	0	4	96	28	33	13

Bowling averages

	Mat	Inns	Balls	Runs	Wkts	BBI	BBM	Ave	Econ	SR	4w	5w	10
ODIs	19	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
T20Is	1	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
First-class	335		112	150	0	-	-	-	8.03	-	0	0	0
List A	401		3	1	0	-	-	-	2.00	-	0	0	0
Twenty20	60	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-

Career statistics

ODI debut	Australia v England at Melbourne, Jan 12, 2007 scorecard
Last ODI	West Indies v England at Bridgetown, Apr 21, 2007 scorecard
ODI statistics
Only T20I	Australia v England at Sydney, Jan 9, 2007 scorecard
T20I statistics
First-class debut	1989
Last First-class	Northamptonshire v Leicestershire at Northampton, Sep 23-25, 2009 scorecard
List A debut	1989
Last List A	Leicestershire v Surrey at Leicester, Sep 27, 2009 scorecard
Twenty20 debut	Leicestershire v Yorkshire at Leicester, Jun 16, 2003 scorecard
Last Twenty20	Leicestershire v Durham at Leicester, Jun 28, 2009 scorecard

Profile

Paul Nixon is one of a crop of wicket-keeping batsmen who came along at the wrong time for an international career. His path into the England team was blocked by Jack Russell and especially Alec Stewart as the team tried to find an allrounder. Nixon's one taste of the top level came when he was Stewart's understudy on the 2000-01 tours of Pakistan and Sri Lanka. However, despite his lack of chances to prove himself with England he has been a fine servant in county cricket. For the two main stints of his career that has been with Leicestershire, where he helped them to their two Championship titles in 1996 and 1998, before joining Kent from 2000 until 2002. He was a popular player at Canterbury and helped improve their one-day cricket but with the emergence of Geraint Jones the club couldn't afford to keep both. He returned to Leicestershire in 2003 and slotted straight back into their team ethos. His role in Twenty20 cricket has been crucial and he is one of the best players of the reverse sweep in the county game (and possibly world cricket). Still an ultra-competitive player whose drive to be successful hasn't dimmed, that was rewarded when he was surprisingly drafted into the England one-day side in Australia in 2006-07 and did well enough to hold on to his place for the World Cup immediately afterwards, where he was solid with the bat - if not spectacular - and forever experimental with the vocals. Named in England's 25-man development squad it appeared he was heading for a Test debut at 36, but was overlooked for Matt Prior.
Andrew McGlashan May 2007