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Tim Ambrose

England

Full name Timothy Raymond Ambrose

Born December 1, 1982, Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia

Current age 26 years 356 days

Major teams England, Sussex, Warwickshire

Nickname Freak

Batting style Right-hand bat

Fielding position Wicketkeeper

Height 5 ft 7 in

Education Merewether Selective High, NSW

Batting and fielding averages

	Mat	Inns	NO	Runs	HS	Ave	BF	SR	100	50	4s	6s	Ct	St
Tests	11	16	1	447	102	29.80	963	46.41	1	3	55	4	31	0
ODIs	5	5	1	10	6	2.50	34	29.41	0	0	0	0	3	0
T20Is	1	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	1	1
First-class	109	165	15	5266	251*	35.10	10162	51.82	9	30			246	16
List A	103	91	13	2221	135	28.47	3024	73.44	3	8			108	18
Twenty20	31	26	6	532	77	26.60	440	120.90	0	2	45	11	19	10

Bowling averages

	Mat	Inns	Balls	Runs	Wkts	BBI	BBM	Ave	Econ	SR	4w	5w	10
Tests	11	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
ODIs	5	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
T20Is	1	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
First-class	109		6	1	0	-	-	-	1.00	-	0	0	0
List A	103	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Twenty20	31	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-

Career statistics

Test debut	New Zealand v England at Hamilton, Mar 5-9, 2008 scorecard
Last Test	West Indies v England at Bridgetown, Feb 26-Mar 2, 2009 scorecard
Test statistics
ODI debut	England v New Zealand at Chester-le-Street, Jun 15, 2008 scorecard
Last ODI	England v New Zealand at Lord's, Jun 28, 2008 scorecard
ODI statistics
Only T20I	England v New Zealand at Manchester, Jun 13, 2008 scorecard
T20I statistics
First-class debut	2001
Last First-class	Lancashire v Warwickshire at Manchester, Sep 23-25, 2009 scorecard
List A debut	2001
Last List A	Lancashire v Warwickshire at Manchester, Sep 27, 2009 scorecard
Twenty20 debut	Hampshire v Sussex at Southampton, Jun 13, 2003 scorecard
Last Twenty20	Sussex v Warwickshire at Hove, Jul 27, 2009 scorecard

Profile

Born in New South Wales, Ambrose started out at Sussex and made a positive impression - especially with his hard-hitting batting. However, with Matt Prior on the books he realised regular first-team cricket, and importantly keeping opportunities, would be limited and he moved to Warwickshire at the start of the 2006 season. He had a stop-start beginning to life at Edgbaston as injury restricted his early-season chances in 2006, but in the second half of the summer he gave plenty of examples of his batting ability and he blossomed in fine style during 2007. He was so prolific there was talk of him being an outside bet for the Test and one-day sides - but his former team-mate, Prior, got the nod. However, Prior's disappointing tour of Sri Lanka led to his axing in early 2008 and Ambrose was called up as his replacement for England's series against New Zealand. He started promisingly, too; his counterattacking 102 in the second Test in Wellington turned England's fortunes around and helped swing the series their way. Off the pitch, he is a useful guitarist and nicknamed 'freak' due to everything apparently coming naturally to him.
Andrew McGlashan April 2008