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Phil DeFreitas

England

Full name Phillip Anthony Jason DeFreitas

Born February 18, 1966, Scotts Head, Dominica

Current age 43 years 280 days

Major teams England, Boland, Derbyshire, Lancashire, Leicestershire

Batting style Right-hand bat

Bowling style Right-arm fast-medium

Batting and fielding averages

	Mat	Inns	NO	Runs	HS	Ave	BF	SR	100	50	4s	6s	Ct
Tests	44	68	5	934	88	14.82	1691	55.23	0	4	103	8	14
ODIs	103	66	23	690	67	16.04	823	83.83	0	1	46	10	26
First-class	372	533	50	10991	123*	22.75			10	54			127
List A	479	346	67	5181	90	18.56			0	13			101
Twenty20	11	9	1	63	18	7.87	72	87.50	0	0	3	2	0

Bowling averages

	Mat	Inns	Balls	Runs	Wkts	BBI	BBM	Ave	Econ	SR	4w	5w	10
Tests	44	76	9838	4700	140	7/70	9/165	33.57	2.86	70.2	8	4	0
ODIs	103	103	5712	3775	115	4/35	4/35	32.82	3.96	49.6	1	0	0
First-class	372		72073	34809	1248	7/21		27.89	2.89	57.7		61	6
List A	479		23007	15054	539	5/13	5/13	27.92	3.92	42.6	12	7	0
Twenty20	11	10	150	217	9	3/39	3/39	24.11	8.68	16.6	0	0	0

Career statistics

Test debut	Australia v England at Brisbane, Nov 14-19, 1986 scorecard
Last Test	England v West Indies at Leeds, Jun 8-11, 1995 scorecard
Test statistics
ODI debut	Australia v England at Perth, Jan 1, 1987 scorecard
Last ODI	England v Australia at The Oval, May 24, 1997 scorecard
ODI statistics
First-class span	1985 - 2005
List A span	1985 - 2004
Twenty20 debut	Leicestershire v Yorkshire at Leicester, Jun 16, 2003 scorecard
Last Twenty20	Faisalabad Wolves v PCA Masters XI at Leicester, Sep 17, 2005 scorecard

Profile

With a side-on squint-cum-grimace, DeFreitas flings himself at the crease and throws both arms skywards at the same time. No matter that his action wouldn't win any beauty contests: at his peak, around 1991, he was one of England's most consistent seamers, combining away movement, inswing and legcutters. He would later add offbreaks to his repertoire. His early promise earned him a Test debut in Australia at the age of 21, but his lack of firepower on overseas pitches meant he rarely extended his run of appearances beyond an English summer, and when Dominic Cork arrived on the scene in 1995, DeFreitas's Test career was over. As a batsman he took an age to mature - failing to score a Test fifty until his 22nd appearance - but he can be destructive and turned games at The Oval in 1994 and Adelaide the following winter with some fluent hitting over the top. A tendency to self-destruct, however, meant he never became the post-Botham allrounder England craved. In the field, his strong arm makes him a natural cover sweeper. His long and prolific county career began at Leicestershire, blossomed at Lancashire, where he helped win several one-day trophies, before taking him to Derbyshire and finally back to Leicestershire. His career finished in 2005, where it had all started in 1985 - at Grace Road - after he appeared for the PCA Masters in the first International 20:20 Championships.
Lawrence Booth

Notes

Leicestershire 1985-1988 and 2000-date, Lancashire 1989-1993, Derbyshire 1994-1999, Boland 1993-94 to 1994-95