paul harris Profile - ICC Profile, Age, Career Info & Stats.
paul harris is a cricketer(sportsman) from South Africa. His ICC profile, age, career info & stats are given below.
Full Name
Paul Lee Harris
Born
November 02, 1978, Salisbury (now Harare), Rhodesia
Age
45 years old
Batting Style
Right hand Bat
Bowling Style
Slow Left arm Orthodox
Playing Role
Bowler
Batting Stats
Test | ODI | T20I | IPL | |
---|---|---|---|---|
Mat | 37 | 3 | - | - |
Inn | 48 | - | - | - |
Runs | 460 | - | - | - |
Avg | 10.7 | - | - | - |
SR | 33.9 | - | - | - |
HS | 46 | - | - | - |
NO | 5 | - | - | - |
100s | 0 | - | - | - |
50s | 0 | - | - | - |
4s | 47 | - | - | - |
6s | 3 | - | - | - |
Bowling Stats
Test | ODI | T20I | IPL | |
---|---|---|---|---|
Mat | 37 | 3 | - | - |
Inn | 63 | 3 | - | - |
Balls | 8809 | 180 | - | - |
Runs | 3901 | 83 | - | - |
Wkt | 103 | 3 | - | - |
BBI | 127 / 6 | 30 / 2 | - | - |
BBM | 161 / 9 | 30 / 2 | - | - |
Eco | 2.66 | 2.77 | - | - |
Avg | 37.87 | 27.67 | - | - |
5W | 3 | 0 | - | - |
10W | 0 | 0 | - | - |
Teams he has played for:
- South Africa
- Lions
- Northerns
- Titans
- Warwickshire
- Western Province
Heres what CricBuzz says about him.
Born on November 2nd 1978 in Rhodesia - now Zimbabwe - he moved to Cape Town and made his debut for the Nashua Titans in 1998/99. He holds the domestic record for picking up 49 wickets in one season. Following consistent performances at the first class level, he was signed up by Warwickshire as a Kolpak player during 2006.
However, it was Boje's retirement which prompted the selectors to call back Paul Harris and he made his debut against India in the Cape Town test of 2007. He immediately made his impact against the Indians by operating on an around the leg line. This frustrated the Indians and they self destructed, handing the test match to South Africa. His bowling prompted Ravi Shastri to memorably comment, \"The Indians made him look like Lord Harris out there\".
His stock continued to rise and he was one of the star performers during the tour to Pakistan in 2007. In two tests, he picked up 12 wickets at an average of 20, and Harris soon became a regular feature in the Test team. He also performed steadily against the Australians and picked up wickets at regular intervals, even winning a man of the match award in the 3rd test at Cape Town in 2009, where South Africa won by an innings and twenty runs. It was a bittersweet series for Harris, for he was blasted for 26 runs in one over by Mitchell Johnson during the first test at the Wanderers.
However, he encountered a dip in form during the home series against England in 2009-10. He was comfortably negotiated by the English batsman, and thus he was dropped for the fourth and final test.. After being selected for the tour of India in February 2010, Harris was in the squad for one more year. He had average series against West Indies, Pakistan and India. In Dec 2010, he played his last Test before being dropped in favour of Imran Tahir.
He kept on playing for the Titans but didn't have any significant performance for him to comeback into the South African squad. Subsequently, he retired from all forms of cricket in January 2013. He finished his career with 103 wickets in 37 tests. He is now trying his hand in the media field.
by Siddharth Vishwanathan and Akshay Maanay
Heres what ESPNcricinfo says about him.
Rhodesian-born slow left-armer Paul Harris is tall and not unlike the former England star Phil Tufnell in appearance and style. He played 37 Tests for South Africa and was closing in on 400 first-class wickets when he announced he would retire at the end of the 2012/13 season.
Harris was brought up in Cape Town and made his first-class debut for Western Province in 1998 but his progress was blocked by Paul Adams and Claude Henderson. He moved to Northerns in October 2002 but it took until 2005, under new coach Richard Pybus, for Harris to establish himself. A haul of 49 wickets in the 2005/06 SuperSport Series, which no bowler bettered, put him in the frame for a call up to the Test side. His overlooking prompted Harris to consider turning his back on South Africa. He played for Warwickshire as a Kolpak player in 2006, taking 31 wickets but after Nicky Boje stormed into retirement from international cricket, disenchanted with his country's treatment of spinners, Harris was back in the frame and eventually made it into the South African squad for the Boxing Day Test against India in 2006.
Harris' selection was a departure from the usual South African policy of choosing spinners who can also contribute with the bat and in the field. His debut came in the New Year's Test and he took four first-innings wickets - including one Sachin Tendulkar - and will perhaps be remembered most for his nagging, over-the-wicket line that decidedly put the Indian batsmen in a shell, and helped South Africa wrestle back the initiative.
He showed great promise in 2007, picking up 12 wickets at 20.66 against Pakistan in October, including his first five-wicket haul in the first Test at Karachi. He was named as one of South Africa's Players of the Year for his efforts but struggled to build on his potential in 2008, picking up 24 wickets in the calendar year at a bloated 45.04. Harris found some form in 2009, but a poor showing in the third Test against England in January 2010 - and the subsequent call-up, quickly rescinded, of the ineligible Pakistan-born legspinner, Imran Tahir - meant Harris's place in the team was no longer assured.
Harris went on to tour India - five wickets at 59.40 - West Indies - five at 71.60 - and Dubai - seven at 32.85 against Pakistan - but the return to some kind of form was shortlived and the home series against India would prove Harris' last. His four wickets at 64.25 and the qualification of Tahir saw Harris dropped under new coach Gary Kirsten.
Ken Borland and ESPNcricinfo staff