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Chris Adams

England

Full name Christopher John Adams

Born May 6, 1970, Whitwell, Derbyshire

Current age 39 years 200 days

Major teams England, Australian Capital Territory, Derbyshire, Sussex

Nickname Grizzly, Grizwold

Batting style Right-hand bat

Bowling style Right-arm offbreak

Other Administrator

Height 6 ft 0 in

Education Chesterfield Boys Grammar School; Repton School

Batting and fielding averages

	Mat	Inns	NO	Runs	HS	Ave	BF	SR	100	50	4s	6s	Ct
Tests	5	8	0	104	31	13.00	285	36.49	0	0	13	0	6
ODIs	5	4	0	71	42	17.75	144	49.30	0	0	3	0	3
First-class	336	546	41	19535	239	38.68			48	93			404
List A	367	347	58	11481	163	39.72			21	69			165
Twenty20	42	38	8	880	63	29.33	737	119.40	0	3	76	23	10

Bowling averages

	Mat	Inns	Balls	Runs	Wkts	BBI	BBM	Ave	Econ	SR	4w	5w	10
Tests	5	2	120	59	1	1/42	1/42	59.00	2.95	120.0	0	0	0
ODIs	5	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
First-class	336		3288	1935	41	4/28		47.19	3.53	80.1		0	0
List A	367		1391	1217	32	5/16	5/16	38.03	5.24	43.4	0	1	0
Twenty20	42	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-

Career statistics

Test debut	South Africa v England at Johannesburg, Nov 25-28, 1999 scorecard
Last Test	South Africa v England at Centurion, Jan 14-18, 2000 scorecard
Test statistics
ODI debut	England v South Africa at The Oval, May 21, 1998 scorecard
Last ODI	England v Zimbabwe at Cape Town, Jan 28, 2000 scorecard
ODI statistics
First-class debut	1988
Last First-class	Sussex v Yorkshire at Hove, Sep 24-27, 2008 scorecard
List A debut	1989
Last List A	Nottinghamshire v Sussex at Nottingham, Sep 14, 2008 scorecard
Twenty20 debut	Hampshire v Sussex at Southampton, Jun 13, 2003 scorecard
Last Twenty20	Essex v Sussex at Chelmsford, Jun 24, 2008 scorecard

Profile

A front-foot bruiser, Adams veered from the ferocious to the fallible. He was one of the most explosive batsmen in the county game and loves to hit the ball in the air. But in his only spell in Test cricket - in South Africa in 1999-00 - his aggressive instincts got him into trouble, especially when he drove loosely and without moving his feet. Adams is a combative cricketer and team-mates had to step in when he and Wasim Akram squared up during the interval at the 1993 B&H final. He spent ten increasingly unhappy years at Derbyshire, cricket's nest of vipers, and joined Sussex as a highly-paid captain in 1998, where he and Michael Bevan spent two summers rescuing the middle order. His hard work paid dividends in 2003 when he led Sussex to their first title and in April 2004 he was named one of Wisden's Five Cricketers of the Year. In 2006 he led Sussex to double success, winning the C&G Trophy and the Championship. At the end of the season a few eyebrows were raised when he announced he was moving to Yorkshire ... less than a fortnight later even more were raised when he made a U-turn and decided to stay at Hove and he won back-to-back Championships in 2006 and 2007. After Sussex clinched the Pro40 title in 2008, Adams announced he was standing down as captain after 11 years. He then hot-footed it to Surrey as their professional cricket manager, renewing his alliance with Gus Mackay whom he worked with at Sussex.
Lawrence Booth December 2008

Notes

Wisden Cricketer of the Year 2004