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Darren Pattinson

England

Full name Darren John Pattinson

Born August 2, 1979, Grimsby, Lincolnshire, England

Current age 30 years 98 days

Major teams England, England Lions, Nottinghamshire, Victoria

Playing role Bowler

Batting style Right-hand bat

Bowling style Right-arm fast-medium

Relation Brother - JL Pattinson

Batting and fielding averages

	Mat	Inns	NO	Runs	HS	Ave	BF	SR	50	4s	6s	Ct
Tests	1	2	0	21	13	10.50	50	42.00	0	3	0	0
First-class	30	34	3	326	59	10.51	750	43.46	1	42	1	3
List A	34	14	5	57	13*	6.33	106	53.77	0	2	1	9
Twenty20	17	4	2	14	5	7.00	15	93.33	0	1	0	4

Bowling averages

	Mat	Inns	Balls	Runs	Wkts	BBI	BBM	Ave	Econ	SR	4w	5w
Tests	1	2	181	96	2	2/95	2/96	48.00	3.18	90.5	0	0
First-class	30	53	4964	2818	78	6/30	8/85	36.12	3.40	63.6	2	5
List A	34	34	1355	1137	45	4/29	4/29	25.26	5.03	30.1	2	0
Twenty20	17	17	309	419	15	3/18	3/18	27.93	8.13	20.6	0	0

Career statistics

Only Test	England v South Africa at Leeds, Jul 18-21, 2008 scorecard
Test statistics
First-class debut	Victoria v South Australia at Melbourne, Jan 26-29, 2007 scorecard
Last First-class	South Australia v Victoria at Adelaide, Oct 30-Nov 2, 2009 scorecard
List A debut	Victoria v Queensland at Melbourne, Nov 29, 2006 scorecard
Last List A	Victoria v Tasmania at Melbourne, Nov 7, 2009 scorecard
Twenty20 debut	South Australia v Victoria at Adelaide, Jan 1, 2007 scorecard
Last Twenty20	Nottinghamshire v Lancashire at Nottingham, Jun 28, 2009 scorecard

Profile

After years of toiling away for Dandenong in Melbourne's club cricket, higher honours appeared to have permanently eluded Darren Pattinson until, in July 2008, he was sensationally plucked from obscurity to make his Test debut for the land of his birth, England, against South Africa at Headingley. It was a bewilderingly rapid promotion for a man who had played only 11 first-class matches in his entire career, and who at the time was only two weeks shy of his 29th birthday. That weekend, he had been planning to take his kids to Alton Towers. However, an injury to Ryan Sidebottom - and doubts about the enduring effectiveness of Matthew Hoggard - led England's selectors to trawl the shires for a tall and accurate new-ball bowler who could be relied upon to hit the deck and extract some swing at a good pace. Pattinson's season stats, 29 wickets at 20.86 for Nottinghamshire, brooked no argument, although the fact that he had not been a permanent resident in England since leaving his hometown of Grimsby at the age of six might have counted against him. As it turned out, he performed creditably with 2 for 95 in South Africa's first innings, but England's ten-wicket drubbing meant he vanished from view almost as quickly as he had risen in the first place. That rise had begun in November 2006 when a spate of injuries struck down Victoria's frontline fast bowlers. At 27, the uncontracted Pattinson made his Pura Cup, limited-overs and Twenty20 debuts, and his job as a roof-tiler took a backseat as he claimed 4 for 87 in his maiden first-class match against South Australia. His efforts earned him a state contract for 2007-08, and though he was only used twice in Pura Cup games in his second season, Pattinson was recommended to Nottinghamshire by his colleague, David Hussey. The rest quickly passed into history.
Andrew Miller September 2009