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Full name Jason Edward Riche Gallian
Born June 25, 1971, Manly, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Current age 37 years 103 days
Major teams England,Essex,Lancashire,Nottinghamshire,Oxford University
Batting style Right-hand bat
Bowling style Right-arm medium
Height
6 ft 0 in
Education Oxford University
Batting and fielding averages
Mat
Inns
NO
Runs
HS
Ave
BF
SR
100
50
4s
6s
Ct
St
Tests
3
6
0
74
28
12.33
309
23.94
0
0
8
0
1
0
First-class
252
430
35
15021
312
38.02
37
72
226
0
List A
227
223
17
6676
134
32.40
11
40
77
0
Twenty20
16
16
0
315
62
19.68
306
102.94
0
2
35
1
5
0
Bowling averages
Mat
Inns
Balls
Runs
Wkts
BBI
BBM
Ave
Econ
SR
4w
5w
10
Tests
3
2
84
62
0
-
-
-
4.42
-
0
0
0
First-class
252
7162
4164
96
6/115
43.37
3.48
74.6
1
0
List A
227
2049
1808
55
5/15
5/15
32.87
5.29
37.2
0
1
0
Twenty20
16
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
Career statistics
Test debut
England v West Indies at Birmingham, Jul 6-8, 1995 scorecard
Last Test
South Africa v England at Port Elizabeth, Dec 26-30, 1995 scorecard
Test statistics
First-class debut
1990
Last First-class
Essex v Warwickshire at Chelmsford, Sep 17-20, 2008 scorecard
List A debut
1992
Last List A
Kent v Essex at Canterbury, Sep 13, 2008 scorecard
Twenty20 debut
Durham v Nottinghamshire at Chester-le-Street, Jun 13, 2003 scorecard
Last Twenty20
Essex v Hampshire at Chelmsford, Jun 27, 2008 scorecard
Profile
Born and raised in Australia, Jason Gallian captained Australian Young Cricketers against England in 1989-90 but subsequently moved to England and signed for Lancashire. At his best, Gallian is a class batsman - he has been described as a slimmed-down Mike Gatting - and in the period before he qualified for England in 1994, a decent international career was considered a virtual certainty. But he was dogged by ill-luck and inconsistency. His Test debut in 1995 was on a minefield at Birmingham where West Indies' fast bowlers blew England away in a little over two days, Gallian collecting a fractured finger in his first innings. He returned for the final Test at The Oval as a makeshift opener, and did enough to go with England to South Africa that winter. He played his third and final Test at Port Elizabeth where Christopher Martin-Jenkins wrote that he "confirmed his character if not his unarguable Test quality". He continued to score consistently for Lancashire - in 1996 he hammered 312 against Derbyshire, the highest score at Old Trafford - but grew increasingly disenchanted and moved to Nottinghamshire in pursuit of new challenges at the end of the following season. He was subsequently appointed their captain but continued to be dogged by injury - he missed almost all 2001 after undergoing knee surgery and then breaking a knuckle in his first match back. Following one year back in the ranks, he was reappointed captain of Nottinghamshire in 2004. However, after a fractious relationship with Kevin Pietersen amongst others he was replaced by Stephen Fleming for the 2005 season, a decision that he did not take too well initially. He still topped 1000-runs that season as Nottinghamshire won the Championship. 2006 was a lean year for Gallian as he failed to threaten the 1000-run mark and Nottinghamshire were relegated to Division Two.
Martin Williamson September 2006
