ray price Profile - ICC Profile, Age, Career Info & Stats.
ray price is a cricketer(sportsman) from Zimbabwe. His ICC profile, age, career info & stats are given below.
Full Name
Raymond William Price
Born
June 12, 1976, Salisbury (now Harare)
Age
47 years old
Batting Style
Right hand Bat
Bowling Style
Slow Left arm Orthodox
Playing Role
Bowler
Batting Stats
Test | ODI | T20I | IPL | |
---|---|---|---|---|
Mat | 22 | 102 | 15 | 1 |
Inn | 38 | 59 | 9 | - |
Runs | 261 | 406 | 15 | - |
Avg | 8.7 | 9.67 | 3.0 | - |
SR | 31.79 | 57.92 | 53.57 | - |
HS | 36 | 46 | 7 | - |
NO | 8 | 17 | 4 | - |
100s | 0 | 0 | 0 | - |
50s | 0 | 0 | 0 | - |
4s | 41 | 31 | 1 | - |
6s | 1 | 5 | 0 | - |
Bowling Stats
Test | ODI | T20I | IPL | |
---|---|---|---|---|
Mat | 22 | 102 | 15 | 1 |
Inn | 35 | 99 | 15 | 1 |
Balls | 6135 | 5374 | 345 | 18 |
Runs | 2885 | 3575 | 339 | 33 |
Wkt | 80 | 100 | 13 | 0 |
BBI | 73 / 6 | 22 / 4 | 6 / 2 | 33 / 2 |
BBM | 161 / 10 | 22 / 4 | 6 / 2 | 33 / 2 |
Eco | 2.82 | 3.99 | 5.9 | 11.0 |
Avg | 36.06 | 35.75 | 26.08 | 0.0 |
5W | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
10W | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Teams he has played for:
- Zimbabwe
- Mashonaland Country Districts
- Mashonaland Eagles
- Midlands
- Mumbai Indians
- Northerns (Zimbabwe)
- Worcestershire
- Zimbabwe XI
Heres what CricBuzz says about him.
In this career, Price picked up three more five-wicket hauls and was generally a steady bowler who could keep an end tight but at the same time, also probe the batsmen with his flight and subtle natural variations. His approach with the ball and temperament propped him as a Test specialist but Price eventually also ended with more than 100 ODIs to his kitty. The numbers weren't intimidating but those who watched him bowl would agree that Price had the ability to stump the best of batsmen with his wily brand of left-arm spin. In fact, the pundits rate him along side Paul Strang as the finest spinners to come out of Zimbabwe.
Like a lot of star players in the 2000s, Price was also part of the infamous rebel spat in 2004 which saw a plethora of cricketers, senior and junior, being axed for taking a stand against the administration. Price was also dropped and that forced him to make a move to England where he plied his trade for Worcestershire with a great amount of success in the 50-over format primarily. In 2008, Price made an international comeback and became a key member of Zimbabwe's ODI team, leading the bowling charts and even getting to the second spot in the ICC bowling rankings. Not many know that Price suffers from partial deafness and also has an uncle who was a superstar in golf.
Written by Hariprasad Sadanandan
Heres what ESPNcricinfo says about him.
A left-arm spinner who took wickets with guile and aggression rather than massive spin, Ray Price was Zimbabwe's most impressive spinner after Paul Strang, endowed with the tenacity and self-belief to compete against the best.
Price started on a high, with seven wickets in his second Test, against Bangladesh in Harare in 2001, and he acquitted himself well at Test level overall, with 80 wickets from 22 matches, including consecutive five-wicket hauls against South Africa and India in 2001-02 and 6 for 121 in Australia's first innings in Sydney in 2003. He almost bowled Zimbabwe to a remarkable victory in the first Test against West Indies in November that year, but was denied by the obdurate pair of Ridley Jacobs and Fidel Edwards. The 19 wickets he took in that Test and the one after, against West Indies, were a career high and capped a superb run of 33 wickets at 22.42 from six Tests.
Then came 2004, when Price threw in his lot with Heath Streak and the rest of Zimbabwe's rebel cricketers and found himself ostracised, following which he went to England, signing for Worcestershire in August 2004.
In November 2007, Zimbabwe Cricket offered him a new contract for their series against West Indies, and he returned to the fold, and though he didn't quite regain his former potency in the four Tests he played from then on, he established himself as a canny and economical bowler in ODIs. He took close to half his 100 ODI wickets in 2009, at 20.61, ascending to No. 2 in the ICC's ODI bowling rankings.