paul horton Profile - ICC Profile, Age, Career Info & Stats.
paul horton is a cricketer(sportsman) from England. His ICC profile, age, career info & stats are given below.
Full Name
Paul James Horton
Born
September 20, 1982, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Age
41 years old
Nicknames
Horts
Batting Style
Right hand Bat
Bowling Style
Right arm Medium
Playing Role
Opening Batter
Height
5ft 10in
Education
Colo High School, Sydney; Broadgreen Comp Liverpool; St Margaret's High School
Teams he has played for:
- Lancashire
- Lancashire 2nd XI
- Lancashire Cricket Board
- Matabeleland Tuskers
Heres what CricBuzz says about him.
Horton is regarded highly in England's domestic circuit, as he has scored more than 12000 first-class runs and nearly 25 first-class centuries in his elongated career. He does play the shorter formats, but it's his record in first-class cricket, that makes him a prominent player. The four-day format suits him best and his slip catching is better than most of the players in his team. He was a steady performer for Lancashire in their 2011 title-winning season but due to his tendency of getting out in the 90s, he was neglected by the England selectors. The same year he scored more than 1000 runs for Lancashire that included four 90-plus scores, but unfortunately not a single three-digit score.
One of Horton's most memorable knocks came against Warwickshire in the 2012 season where he battled for more than seven hours to deny them a victory with a resolute knock of 137. Horton was released by Lancashire in 2015 and by then he had scored in excess of 9500 runs for the club in first-class cricket. And the very next season he overhauled the 10000-run mark while representing Leicestershire. It was due to the opportunities provided by them, that Horton was able to stretch his career.
Under Horton's leadership, Leicestershire got off to a winning note in the 2019 season as the opener scored 50-plus in the second innings and made some brave moves, helping his team to win by 7 wickets. In June 2019, against Gloucestershire Horton was dismissed for a duck in the first innings, but he made sure to make them pay in the second innings. He replied in the best possible way by scoring a 100 that consisted of 13 dazzling boundaries. The match ended in a draw, but Horton's two contrasting knocks in the same match proved how great a leveller cricket is.
Written by Nikhil Jadhav
Heres what ESPNcricinfo says about him.
Paul Horton, once regarded as a batsman whose measured style was best suited to four-day cricket, gradually developed into a versatile performer in all forms of the game, as adept at scoring runs quickly as building an innings patiently. He also gained a reputation as one of the best slip fielders on the English county circuit.
Born and raised in Sydney, Horton moved to Liverpool and became part of the Lancashire set-up at Under-17 level, where he was captain before taking the same role with the U-19s. A consistent run-scorer in 2nd XI cricket, he struggled at first to force his way into a strong Lancashire team but when his chance came in 2007 he took it with both hands.
Three Championship centuries that season - helping him win the Player of the Year award - preceded two more in 2008 and a Lancashire-best 173 against Somerset at Taunton in 2009. He spent a couple of English winters in Zimbabwe, where he made his career-best 209 for Matabeleland Tuskers in January 2011.
He shone in particular in Lancashire's title-winning 2011 season, when had he not developed an unfortunate tendency to be out in the 90s he might even have merited a look by the England selectors. His 1040 Championship runs included four scores between 93 and 99 but no centuries. A technically reliable opener in four-day cricket, he made unbeaten scores of 97 and 95 in the Clydesdale Bank 40 batting in the middle order, in which role he further demonstrated his adaptability by hitting 49 off 45 balls as Lancashire reached Finals Day in the Friends Life T20 by beating Sussex at Hove.
There were not many Lancashire players who did not fall below their 2011 standard in 2012 but Horton still contributed some memorable efforts, notably a seven-and-a-half-hour epic at Edgbaston in May, when he batted out the final day to finish unbeaten on 137 to deny Warwickshire victory. He became Lancashire's preferred captaincy stand-in for Glen Chapple as his stock rose and by 2014, unanticipated by many, he was most successful in the limited-overs game, leading Lancashire to the NatWest T20 Blast final.
But he was overlooked for the captaincy when Tom Smith was named as Chapple's successor, with Steven Croft vice-captain. When Lancashire released him in 2015, after scoring 8374 first-class runs at an average of 36.09, Leicestershire, determinedly rebuilding after three successive seasons at the foot of Division Two, gave him an opportunity to extend his career.
He had a solid, if unspectacular, time at Leicestershire, who made him captain, at 35, after Michael Carberry was replaced less than two months into his first full season by the incoming coach Paul Nixon. The "fresh challenge" Horton had suggested he needed when he left Lancashire was now available in no uncertain terms, although he couldn't prevent another bottom-place finish in 2019 and saw the job go to Colin Ackermann.
ESPNcricinfo staff