
	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	98	150	14	4809	251*	35.36	9368	51.33	8	27			219	15
List A	95	87	13	2132	135	28.81	2908	73.31	3	8			105	14
Twenty20	30	25	6	531	77	27.94	437	121.51	0	2	45	11	18	10

Bowling averages


	Mat	Inns	Balls	Runs	Wkts	BBI	BBM	Ave	Econ	SR	4w	5w	10
Tests	11	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
ODIs	5	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
T20Is	1	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
First-class	98		6	1	0	-	-	-	1.00	-	0	0	0
List A	95	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Twenty20	30	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-

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	England XI v Warwickshire at Birmingham, Jul 1-3, 2009 scorecard
List A debut	2001
Last List A	Warwickshire v Kent at Birmingham, May 20, 2009 scorecard
Twenty20 debut	Hampshire v Sussex at Southampton, Jun 13, 2003 scorecard
Last Twenty20	Warwickshire v Somerset at Birmingham, Jun 28, 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