ray bright Profile - ICC Profile, Age, Career Info & Stats.
ray bright is a cricketer(sportsman) from Australia. His ICC profile, age, career info & stats are given below.
Full Name
Raymond James Bright
Born
July 13, 1954, Footscray, Melbourne, Victoria
Age
69 years old
Nicknames
Candles
Batting Style
Right hand Bat
Bowling Style
Slow Left arm Orthodox
Fielding Position
Gully
Playing Role
Bowler
Batting Stats
Test | ODI | T20I | IPL | |
---|---|---|---|---|
Mat | 25 | 11 | - | - |
Inn | 39 | 8 | - | - |
Runs | 445 | 66 | - | - |
Avg | 14.35 | 16.5 | - | - |
SR | 32.01 | 54.1 | - | - |
HS | 33 | 19 | - | - |
NO | 8 | 4 | - | - |
100s | 0 | 0 | - | - |
50s | 0 | 0 | - | - |
4s | 44 | 3 | - | - |
6s | 2 | 1 | - | - |
Bowling Stats
Test | ODI | T20I | IPL | |
---|---|---|---|---|
Mat | 25 | 11 | - | - |
Inn | 39 | 10 | - | - |
Balls | 5541 | 448 | - | - |
Runs | 2180 | 350 | - | - |
Wkt | 53 | 3 | - | - |
BBI | 87 / 7 | 28 / 1 | - | - |
BBM | 111 / 10 | 28 / 1 | - | - |
Eco | 2.36 | 4.69 | - | - |
Avg | 41.13 | 116.67 | - | - |
5W | 4 | 0 | - | - |
10W | 1 | 0 | - | - |
Teams he has played for:
- Australia
- Victoria
Heres what CricBuzz says about him.
Bright's proficient spin bowling skills earned him a World Series Cricket contract and competing with some mighty cricketers there seemed to get the best out of him. However, that didn't translate into international cricket even after returning from WSC barring the Chennai Test which happened quite late in his career. That was a time when he earned a recall to the national side after being written off by most people. The comeback season was decent but a shoulder injury derailed in him in the 1987-88 season. This pattern followed in domestic cricket too, where he got dropped from the Victoria side and announced retirement soon. In ODIs, Bright got picked even before Tests but his 50-over career was far shorter than the stint in the longer format which was saying a lot.
One of Bright's biggest issues was his method as a spin bowler. While the initial years saw him bravely flighting the ball generously, the trajectory got flatter as his career went on. Perhaps Australia's treatment of spin bowlers at that time gave him a sense of insecurity which meant that the focus was on stopping runs rather than picking wickets. Nevertheless, there was always a lot of potency in his bowling and his batting down the order was underrated. He could often be a frustrating tailender who would refuse to go down without a fight. After retirement, Bright served as a Victorian selector and also took up coaching for the different age groups of the national team.
By Hariprasad Sadanandan
Heres what ESPNcricinfo says about him.
For a time, Ray Bright was colloquially and rather meanly known for having made almost as many tours as he had played Tests. Bright was a skilful left-arm orthodox spinner who flighted the ball when young, but flattened his trajectory as the passing years and Australia's then low regard for slow bowling took their toll. He was also a defiant, if inelegant, lower-order bat, and an honest captain of a struggling Victorian side. He will be best remembered for his effort in the Madras tied Test, when he was reduced to tears by the pitiless conditions, but fought back to take 5 for 94 in the epic fourth innings.
Gideon Haigh