chris wright Profile - ICC Profile, Age, Career Info & Stats.
chris wright is a cricketer(sportsman) from England. His ICC profile, age, career info & stats are given below.
Full Name
Christopher Julian Clement Wright
Born
July 14, 1985, Chipping Norton, Oxfordshire
Age
38 years old
Nicknames
Wrighty, The Baron
Batting Style
Right hand Bat
Bowling Style
Right arm Fast medium
Playing Role
Bowler
Height
6ft 3in
Education
Eggars Grammar School, Alton
Teams he has played for:
- British Universities
- Cambridge MCCU
- England Lions
- Essex
- Essex 2nd XI
- Hampshire 2nd XI
- Hampshire Cricket Board
- Leicestershire
- Middlesex
- Tamil Union Cricket and Athletic Club
- Warwickshire
Heres what CricBuzz says about him.
A Hampshire County product, Wright couldn't bag a contract with the senior team and as a result, had to try his luck elsewhere to make a progressive career. Having tried his luck with Middlesex and Essex, he was released by the latter towards the latter half of the 2011 domestic season. Warwickshire's bowling coach at that time Graeme Welch - who had previously worked with Wright at Essex - and the club's director of cricket, Ashely Giles persuaded Wright to play for the club on loan for the rest of the 2011 season.
As it turned out, Wright racked up a couple of fifers in his first three Championship games and was later offered a new three-year contract. Little did Wright knew about what was to happen during the three year stint he had with the club. In 2012, Wright was handed the responsibility of bowling with the new nut to which he responded with 62 First-Class wickets and remained a vital cog in the side to help them seal the Championship title. He later translated his success in the CB40 league and if not for an unexpected injury midway through the Lord's final, Wright may have ended up as the tournament's leading wicket-taker that season, and, a double title in his kitty, of course.
His accomplishments during the 2012 season, however, didn't go unnoticed as England Performance Programme offered him a spot to stimulate his chances of playing for the national side. And Just as he gained his mojo back in 2013, a stress fracture hampered his progress for the rest of the season.
A similar injury haunted him for most part of the 2014 season eventually causing a huge dip in his progressive career. Although he played for many Counties earlier in his career, Warwickshire backed his abilities and he paid them back through persistent hardwork and bundles of wickets across formats. He had 11 five-wicket hauls and 20 four-wicket hauls (nearly 550 wickets across formats) by the end of August 2018. Wright also spent a year in Sri Lanka where he represented Tamil Union in domestic cricket during 2005-06 season.
Heres what ESPNcricinfo says about him.
Informed that he was to be released by Essex towards the end of the 2011 season, it seemed Chris Wright's career was drifting to an inglorious conclusion. While Gloucestershire expressed an interest in signing him, he had already passed through the systems of three clubs - Hampshire, where he played for the youth teams but wasn't deemed worthy of a contract; Middlesex and Essex - without making the impact he would have liked. The tag "journeyman seamer" sat uncomfortably on his shoulders.
But Essex's decision provided a new opportunity. Graeme Welch, who had worked with Wright as bowling coach at Essex and had moved on to take a similar role at Warwickshire, eventually persuaded - it took three attempts - Ashley Giles, the director of cricket at Edgbaston, to take Wright on loan until the end of the 2011 season. Wright responded with two five-wicket hauls in his first three Championship matches and was rewarded with a new three-year contract.
The 2012 season was even better. Wright, given the new ball, bowled with pace, persistence and skill to take 62 Division One wickets and played a huge role in Warwickshire winning the County Championship title. He was also successful in the CB40 and, but for an injury sustained midway through the Lord's final, might have finished the season as the leading wicket-taker in the competition and as a double trophy winner. His success won him a place in the England Performance Programme and established him in the pecking order as a potential international bowler, before a stress fracture that forced him to miss much of the 2013 season arrested his progress. Just as he returned to something approaching his best in 2014, he was struck down by a similar injury.
By 2018, the emergence of Henry Brookes and Olly Stone, among others, meant Wright was no longer guaranteed a first-team place at the club in all formats (he did not play limited-overs cricket at all in his final season), and he joined Leicestershire on a two-year contract. He rewarded his new county with 100 wickets across his first two full seasons in 2019 and 2021, including a career-best 7 for 53 against Gloucestershire at Bristol.
Earlier in his career, Wright played for Cambridge UCCE (now known as MCCU) and spent 2005-06 playing domestic cricket for Tamil Union in Sri Lanka. After struggling to win an opportunity at Middlesex, he signed for Essex at the end of 2007 and went on to play in the team that won the Friends Provident Trophy final at Lord's against Kent in 2008 and reached T20 finals day in 2010.
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