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David Steele

England

Full name David Stanley Steele

Born September 29, 1941, Bradeley, Staffordshire

Current age 68 years 57 days

Major teams England, Bedfordshire, Derbyshire, Leicestershire, Northamptonshire

Nickname Crime

Batting style Right-hand bat

Bowling style Slow left-arm orthodox

Education Enden Secondary Modern

Relation Brother - JF Steele, Cousin - BS Crump, Son - AS Steele, Son - MV Steele

Batting and fielding averages

	Mat	Inns	NO	Runs	HS	Ave	BF	SR	100	50	4s	6s	Ct
Tests	8	16	0	673	106	42.06	1700	39.58	1	5	74	3	7
ODIs	1	1	0	8	8	8.00	12	66.66	0	0	1	0	0
First-class	500	812	124	22346	140*	32.47			30	117			546
List A	260	224	34	4381	109	23.05			1	20			91

Bowling averages

	Mat	Inns	Balls	Runs	Wkts	BBI	BBM	Ave	Econ	SR	4w	5w	10
Tests	8	4	88	39	2	1/1	2/20	19.50	2.65	44.0	0	0	0
ODIs	1	1	6	9	0	-	-	-	9.00	-	0	0	0
First-class	500		36693	15511	623	8/29		24.89	2.53	58.8		26	3
List A	260		3323	2290	81	4/21	4/21	28.27	4.13	41.0	2	0	0

Career statistics

Test debut	England v Australia at Lord's, Jul 31-Aug 5, 1975 scorecard
Last Test	England v West Indies at The Oval, Aug 12-17, 1976 scorecard
Test statistics
Only ODI	England v West Indies at Scarborough, Aug 26, 1976 scorecard
ODI statistics
First-class span	1963 - 1984
List A span	1965 - 1985

Profile

David Steele was a comparative rarity at test level - a genuine selection-panel coup. A grey-haired middle-order batsman for Northants, he played in steel-rimmed spectacles and looked years older than his actual 33. He had Tony Greig to thank for his inclusion in Greig's first Test as captain, against Australia in 1975. Steele's England career lasted only eight matches and little more than a year, but in that time he became a national hero, averaging 42 against the best fast bowlers in world cricket. Steele based his defence on a firm, long-striding, forward stroke, and stood up to Dennis Lillee and Jeff Thomson, then to the fearsome West Indian pace quartet of 1976 (Roberts, Holding, Daniel, Holder). Far from showing fear, Steele appeared to revel in it. Yet until Greig plucked him out of county cricket, Steele had scored only 16 hundreds in 12 seasons with an average of 31. Described by The Sun's Clive Taylor as "The bank clerk who went to war," Steele scored 50 and 45 on his debut at Lord's after losing his way from the home dressing-room to the Long Room, and added 106 against West Indies at Trent Bridge. A well-liked and drily humorous Staffordshire man who was voted BBC Sports Personality of the Year in 1975, Steele had another triumph: he persuaded a Northampton butcher to reward him in kind in his benefit season, and finished up with 1756 lamb chops - one for every run he scored.
John Thicknesse

Notes

BBC Sports Personality of the Year 1975

Wisden Cricketer of the Year 1976