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Full name Gareth Jon Batty
Born October 13, 1977, Bradford, Yorkshire
Current age 30 years 331 days
Major teams England,Surrey,Surrey Cricket Board,Worcestershire,Yorkshire
Nickname Boris, Nora
Batting style Right-hand bat
Bowling style Right-arm offbreak
Height
5 ft 11 in
Education Bingley Grammar
Batting and fielding averages
Mat
Inns
NO
Runs
HS
Ave
BF
SR
100
50
4s
6s
Ct
St
Tests
7
8
1
144
38
20.57
533
27.01
0
0
15
2
3
0
ODIs
7
5
1
6
3
1.50
19
31.57
0
0
0
0
4
0
First-class
121
184
36
4058
133
27.41
2
21
81
0
List A
164
131
29
1793
83*
17.57
0
5
59
0
Twenty20
39
36
8
416
87
14.85
352
118.18
0
1
37
12
12
0
Bowling averages
Mat
Inns
Balls
Runs
Wkts
BBI
BBM
Ave
Econ
SR
4w
5w
10
Tests
7
9
1394
733
11
3/55
5/153
66.63
3.15
126.7
0
0
0
ODIs
7
7
362
294
4
2/40
2/40
73.50
4.87
90.5
0
0
0
First-class
121
23588
11368
348
7/52
32.66
2.89
67.7
15
1
List A
164
6365
4808
137
4/27
4/27
35.09
4.53
46.4
4
0
0
Twenty20
39
34
678
922
30
3/38
3/38
30.73
8.15
22.6
0
0
0
Career statistics
Test debut
Bangladesh v England at Dhaka, Oct 21-25, 2003 scorecard
Last Test
England v Bangladesh at Chester-le-Street, Jun 3-5, 2005 scorecard
Test statistics
ODI debut
Australia v England at Sydney, Dec 13, 2002 scorecard
Worcestershire v Warwickshire at Worcester, Sep 2-5, 2008 scorecard
List A debut
1998
Last List A
Worcestershire v Gloucestershire at Worcester, Aug 30, 2008 scorecard
Twenty20 debut
Worcestershire v Northamptonshire at Worcester, Jun 13, 2003 scorecard
Last Twenty20
Worcestershire v Glamorgan at Worcester, Jun 27, 2008 scorecard
Profile
Jack-in-the-box allrounder Gareth Batty had to jink around to find a regular first-team spot. Born in Bradford, he played for Yorkshire in 1997 before moving south to try his luck with Surrey. The young man then went west to Worcester, for whom he took 56 wickets with his offspin (and biffed 491 runs) in 2002. That won him a spot at the England Academy in Adelaide in 2002-03, and the selectors sent for him as they cast around for reinforcements during that winter's injury-plagued tour of Australia. Batty played two one-day internationals in Australia, impressing with his tight lines and feisty fielding, and with that in mind he was included in England's 14-man squad for the 2004 Champions Trophy. Doubts persisted about whether he turned it enough to trouble Test batsmen, but he was nevertheless selected for England's trip to Bangladesh and Sri Lanka in 2003. It was an eventful tour - he came close to drowning in a surfing accident in Galle, and at times struggled to keep his head above water with the ball. His batting against Muttiah Muralitharan, on the other hand, was a revelation, and he was instrumental in saving back-to-back Tests at Galle and Kandy. However, since then his chances have be limited to the occasional stand-in role, most notably during the Test in Antigua when Brian Lara reached 400. He has hardly featured since but has continued to perform consistently for Worcestershire, notbaly in 2006 when he took 43 wickets and scored 746 runs at 46.5. Steven Lynch October 2006
