graeme hick Profile - ICC Profile, Age, Career Info & Stats.
graeme hick is a cricketer(sportsman) from England. His ICC profile, age, career info & stats are given below.
Full Name
Graeme Ashley Hick
Born
May 23, 1966, Salisbury (now Harare), Rhodesia
Age
57 years old
Nicknames
Hicky, Ash
Batting Style
Right hand Bat
Bowling Style
Right arm Offbreak
Playing Role
Middle order Batter
Height
6ft 3in
Education
Prince Edward Boys' High School, Zimbabwe
Batting Stats
Test | ODI | T20I | IPL | |
---|---|---|---|---|
Mat | 65 | 120 | - | - |
Inn | 114 | 118 | - | - |
Runs | 3383 | 3846 | - | - |
Avg | 31.32 | 37.34 | - | - |
SR | 48.89 | 74.09 | - | - |
HS | 178 | 126 | - | - |
NO | 6 | 15 | - | - |
100s | 6 | 5 | - | - |
50s | 18 | 27 | - | - |
4s | 450 | 278 | - | - |
6s | 22 | 41 | - | - |
Bowling Stats
Test | ODI | T20I | IPL | |
---|---|---|---|---|
Mat | 65 | 120 | - | - |
Inn | 58 | 47 | - | - |
Balls | 3057 | 1236 | - | - |
Runs | 1306 | 1026 | - | - |
Wkt | 23 | 30 | - | - |
BBI | 126 / 4 | 33 / 5 | - | - |
BBM | 28 / 5 | 33 / 5 | - | - |
Eco | 2.56 | 4.98 | - | - |
Avg | 56.78 | 34.2 | - | - |
5W | 0 | 1 | - | - |
10W | 0 | 0 | - | - |
Teams he has played for:
- England
- Zimbabwe
- Chandigarh Lions
- Northern Districts
- Queensland
- Worcestershire
Heres what CricBuzz says about him.
He scored more than 40,000 first-class runs, mostly from number three in the order, and he is one of only three players to have passed 20,000 runs in List A cricket (Graham Gooch and Sachin Tendulkar are the others) and is one of only twenty-five players to have scored 100 centuries in first-class cricket. He is the only cricketer who has scored first-class triple hundreds in three different decades (1988, 1997 and 2002). Despite these achievements, he is commonly held to have underachieved in international cricket, a view based on comparison of Hick's overall first-class batting average of 52.23 vis-à-vis his Test average of 31.32.
Despite being a heavy scorer at the domestic level, Hick could not quite convert his domestic form for England. He did look to be a part of the team for a brief period where he scored a career best 178 against India in 1993. He was harshly referred to be a flat track bully while a few others felt that he could be easily psyched out by the bowlers. Hick struggled in his Test career, but was one of England's better batsmen in ODI cricket playing a prominent role in helping them reach the 1992 WC finals.
An often under-used off-break bowler, Hick was also a superb slip fielder. Ray Illingworth was never a fan of Hick and that seemed to have had an impact as well. Hick was famously denied his first Ashes hundred during the 1994-95 season when Atherton declared the innings closed with Hick stranded on 98.
Hick ended a rather unfulfilling career after tallying more than 64,000 Test runs and 136 FC centuries in 2008. He was placed 8th on the all-time list. He was then appointed the high performance coach at Cricket Australia's excellence in 2014.
Hick had his fair share of admirers all across the globe. Allan Donald wrote that Hick was \"highly rated by the South African guys\". Warne called him \"purely and simply a quality player\". Steve Waugh said that Hick \"had as much talent as any player he had ever came across\".
By Pradeep Krishnamurthy
Heres what ESPNcricinfo says about him.
Few players divided opinion like Graeme Hick. With 57 first-class hundreds under his belt he arrived on the international scene in 1991 as England's Great White Hope, was dropped four tortuous Tests later, and was in and out for the next decade, until dropped for good at the end of England's triumphant tour to Pakistan and Sri Lanka in 2000-01. All the while he remained a colossus at county level, where he continued to churn out the centuries for Worcestershire in his sleep. John Bracewell called Hick a flat-track bully, and though that may be harsh, he has rarely dominated the best attacks and can be psyched out, as Merv Hughes will testify. He was a gentle giant who murdered medium pace and occasionally savaged the spinners. From his breakthrough century in India in 1992-93 to England's tour of South Africa three years later, Hick averaged in excess of 45, and was beginning to look the part at Test level. But England's new chairman of selectors, Ray Illingworth, was less convinced. Hick was also an under-used offbreak bowler and a second-slip fielder of flawed brilliance. Many would have quietly retired once their international career ended, but Hick's appetite for runs remained undiminished and he scored heavily at county level, chipping away at the records as he went. After a - by his standards - poor 2005 and an uncertain start to 2006, in June some started preparing his cricketing obituary. He bounced back with a hundred, went on to score 1000 runs in an English summer for the 19th time, and signed a new contract with Worcestershire to underline that there was still life in the old dog. In 2008, Hick became the most prolific run-scorer in all cricket, with more than 64,000 runs to his name, and his tally of 136 first-class hundreds places him eighth on the all-time list. Later that season, he announced his retirement from the game, ending the remarkable career of a cherished English enigma.
Cricinfo staff September 2008