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Anthony McGrath

England

Full name Anthony McGrath

Born October 6, 1975, Bradford, Yorkshire

Current age 34 years 46 days

Major teams England, Yorkshire

Nickname Gripper

Batting style Right-hand bat

Bowling style Right-arm medium

Height 6 ft 2 in

Education Yorkshire Martyrs Collegiate School

Batting and fielding averages

	Mat	Inns	NO	Runs	HS	Ave	BF	SR	100	50	4s	6s	Ct
Tests	4	5	0	201	81	40.20	402	50.00	0	2	27	1	3
ODIs	14	12	2	166	52	16.60	353	47.02	0	1	11	0	4
First-class	215	360	26	12346	211	36.96			29	57			155
List A	276	255	37	7058	148	32.37			7	40			90
Twenty20	45	44	8	1060	72*	29.44	910	116.48	0	7	86	28	17

Bowling averages

	Mat	Inns	Balls	Runs	Wkts	BBI	BBM	Ave	Econ	SR	4w	5w
Tests	4	2	102	56	4	3/16	3/16	14.00	3.29	25.5	0	0
ODIs	14	7	228	175	4	1/13	1/13	43.75	4.60	57.0	0	0
First-class	215		7992	4008	114	5/39		35.15	3.00	70.1		1
List A	276		2958	2473	75	4/41	4/41	32.97	5.01	39.4	2	0
Twenty20	45	32	391	564	17	3/27	3/27	33.17	8.65	23.0	0	0

Career statistics

Test debut	England v Zimbabwe at Lord's, May 22-24, 2003 scorecard
Last Test	England v South Africa at Lord's, Jul 31-Aug 3, 2003 scorecard
Test statistics
ODI debut	England v Pakistan at Manchester, Jun 17, 2003 scorecard
Last ODI	England v India at Lord's, Sep 5, 2004 scorecard
ODI statistics
First-class debut	1995
Last First-class	Yorkshire v Hampshire at Leeds, Sep 23-26, 2009 scorecard
List A debut	1995
Last List A	Yorkshire v Essex at Leeds, Sep 27, 2009 scorecard
Twenty20 debut	Nottinghamshire v Yorkshire at Nottingham, Jul 7, 2004 scorecard
Last Twenty20	Yorkshire v Derbyshire at Leeds, Jun 28, 2009 scorecard

Profile

A neat, upright batsman with a penchant for the drive, McGrath started his Yorkshire career in a blaze of glory at 19, in 1995. "The one bonus was the development of Anthony McGrath into a player of obvious class," intoned that year's Wisden, and 999 runs the following season won him a place on an England A tour of Pakistan - when his captain was Nasser Hussain. But then McGrath's career went into reverse. Those seam-friendly home pitches at Headingley didn't help, and soon he was keeping his place in the side with a spot of swing bowling as well as some occasionally eye-catching batting. In 2002 he topped Yorkshire's Championship bowling averages (18 wickets at 27.66), but was only sixth in the batting (803 runs at 32.12, including a career-best 165 in the Roses match). But then, in 2003, Darren Lehmann decided to have a year off from county cricket, and Yorkshire decided not to burden Michael Vaughan with the captaincy. To some surprise, McGrath was appointed. A few weeks later, the national selectors came calling too - an injury to Andrew Flintoff left them seeking another batsman who bowled a bit, and McGrath fitted the bill. He made an immediate impact as well, with consecutive half-centuries against Zimbabwe, and three wickets in his first six overs. Over the past few years McGrath has been on fire; proving all the pundits wrong when his career seemed to be going down the pan. 2006 was a particularly fruitful season, averaging 60.00, while he also hit a one-day best 148 in late August. In the autumn of 2006 he fell out with Yorkshire, turning down the captaincy and a three-year contract, and his time there was seemingly over. However, Darren Gough's arrival as captain brought a u-turn and he agreed a new deal. He took over as captain at the end of the 2008 season and signed a new three-year deal with the county.
Steven Lynch February 2009