phil tufnell Profile - ICC Profile, Age, Career Info & Stats.
phil tufnell is a cricketer(sportsman) from England. His ICC profile, age, career info & stats are given below.
Full Name
Philip Clive Roderick Tufnell
Born
April 29, 1966, Barnet, Hertfordshire
Age
57 years old
Nicknames
The Cat
Batting Style
Right hand Bat
Bowling Style
Slow Left arm Orthodox
Playing Role
Bowler
Height
6ft
Education
Highgate School; Southgate School
Other
Commentator, Author
Batting Stats
Test | ODI | T20I | IPL | |
---|---|---|---|---|
Mat | 42 | 20 | - | - |
Inn | 59 | 10 | - | - |
Runs | 153 | 15 | - | - |
Avg | 5.1 | 15.0 | - | - |
SR | 22.17 | 48.39 | - | - |
HS | 22 | 5 | - | - |
NO | 29 | 9 | - | - |
100s | 0 | 0 | - | - |
50s | 0 | 0 | - | - |
4s | 13 | 0 | - | - |
6s | 0 | 0 | - | - |
Bowling Stats
Test | ODI | T20I | IPL | |
---|---|---|---|---|
Mat | 42 | 20 | - | - |
Inn | 70 | 20 | - | - |
Balls | 11288 | 1020 | - | - |
Runs | 4560 | 699 | - | - |
Wkt | 121 | 19 | - | - |
BBI | 47 / 7 | 22 / 4 | - | - |
BBM | 93 / 11 | 22 / 4 | - | - |
Eco | 2.42 | 4.11 | - | - |
Avg | 37.69 | 36.79 | - | - |
5W | 5 | 0 | - | - |
10W | 2 | 0 | - | - |
Teams he has played for:
- England
- Middlesex
Heres what CricBuzz says about him.
Tufnell's bowling style was very uncomplicated. It included a gentle run up and a skip and a jump in the end. He had masterly control over flight, indeed majority of his victims were beaten in the air than off the pitch. He spoke of his 'ball on a string' and his straighter delivery was not the easiest one to decipher. His career best figures of 7/47 came against New Zealand in Christchurch and England won the match by an innings. There was another occasion of him taking 7 wickets in the first Australian innings at the Oval. He added 4 more wickets in the second innings and England went on to register a famous victory, by just 19 runs. Although he has just 3 other 5 wicket hauls to his name, his left arm spin had potential on a given day to single handedly take his team to victory.
The obvious talent on the cricket field came with it's own idiosyncrasies. He was known to throw tantrums on the field and was nicknamed 'Cat' because of his love for dressing room naps. Moreover England cricket in the pre Fletcher and Flower era was more about county than country. England cricket has never been the best breeding ground for spinners and more so for a left arm spinner. Quite a few of his teammates allege that Tufnell was a chain smoker. To add to this, Tufnell was one of those batsmen who preferred the ball hitting the stumps than his body which meant that he had a batting average of 5. All this resulted in him being in and out of the England squad. He continued to excel for Middlesex and at the end of his first class career, he finished with a staggering 1057 wickets at 29.35 apiece.
A new beginning awaited the end of his cricketing career. Always one to hog the limelight on account of his behaviour, he built on his popularity by making several television appearances. These included I'm a Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here! which he won, They Think It's All Over, A Question of Sport and Strictly Come Dancing. Today, Tufnell is a highly popular celebrity which have ensured a career in TV and radio which are more successful than the one in cricket.
Fact: Tufnell is believed to be a 'Tea' addict. This habit led to him being nicknamed 'Two sugars'
By Siddharth Prabhakar
Heres what ESPNcricinfo says about him.
The Bad Boy of English cricket in the 1990s, but the best spinner - left-arm or otherwise - as well. With a kick of the back leg, a skip and a jump, he had an approach to the wicket that is all his own, but Tufnell had great control of flight - he talked of his "ball on a string" - and tended to beat batsmen in the air rather than off the pitch. And the arm ball was hard to spot. His batting was more straightforward, and consisted of the shuffle to square leg when facing the fast bowlers or the optimistic waft outside off stump. Known as The Cat because of his love of dressing-room naps, he purred into action in his fifth Test against West Indies at The Oval in 1991, and produced another matchwinning performance in Christchurch that winter. But a troubled private life, a strained relationship with the establishment, and some uninspired captaincy meant he has been in and out of the team since then. Only occasionally has he returned to his mischievous, attacking best, although his Middlesex career, kickstarted by an irresistible partnership with John Emburey, never stalled. In April 2003, however, he abruptly retired from first-class cricket, to become the unlikely star of a reality TV show. Rarely seen without a beer and a fag, Tufnell has always been something of a folk hero, and he milked that to the full to carve out a successful career on TV and radio.
Lawrence Booth