steven finn Profile - ICC Profile, Age, Career Info & Stats.
steven finn is a cricketer(sportsman) from England. His ICC profile, age, career info & stats are given below.
Full Name
Steven Thomas Finn
Born
April 04, 1989, Watford, Hertfordshire
Age
34 years old
Nicknames
Finny
Batting Style
Right hand Bat
Bowling Style
Right arm Fast medium
Playing Role
Bowler
Height
6ft 7in
Education
Parmiter's School, Watford
Batting Stats
Test | ODI | T20I | IPL | |
---|---|---|---|---|
Mat | 36 | 69 | 21 | - |
Inn | 47 | 30 | 3 | - |
Runs | 279 | 136 | 14 | - |
Avg | 11.16 | 8.0 | 0.0 | - |
SR | 30.97 | 60.99 | 73.68 | - |
HS | 56 | 35 | 8 | - |
NO | 22 | 13 | 3 | - |
100s | 0 | 0 | 0 | - |
50s | 1 | 0 | 0 | - |
4s | 36 | 11 | 1 | - |
6s | 0 | 3 | 0 | - |
Bowling Stats
Test | ODI | T20I | IPL | |
---|---|---|---|---|
Mat | 36 | 69 | 21 | - |
Inn | 66 | 67 | 21 | - |
Balls | 6412 | 3550 | 480 | - |
Runs | 3801 | 2996 | 583 | - |
Wkt | 125 | 102 | 27 | - |
BBI | 79 / 6 | 33 / 5 | 16 / 3 | - |
BBM | 187 / 9 | 33 / 5 | 16 / 3 | - |
Eco | 3.56 | 5.06 | 7.29 | - |
Avg | 30.41 | 29.37 | 21.59 | - |
5W | 5 | 2 | 0 | - |
10W | 0 | 0 | 0 | - |
Teams he has played for:
- England
- England Lions
- England Under-19s
- Islamabad United
- Manchester Originals (Men)
- Middlesex
- Middlesex 2nd XI
- Otago
Heres what CricBuzz says about him.
Finn has represented England at all age levels and burst into prominence in the 2009 county season with some solid performances. He ended with 53 wickets at 30.64, impressing everyone. The reward was a call-up for the Lions tour of UAE as well as a place in the 30-man probables list for the World T20 in 2009.
It didn't take long for him to get selected in the English squad as injuries to Stuart Broad, Ryan Sidebottom and Graham Onions meant that he leapfrogged them into the playing XI against Bangladesh in Chittagong, March 2010. His first home stint was a memorable one against the same opposition at Lord's. He ended up with figures of 9/187, bagging his first ever Man of the Match award. He followed it up with yet another five-wicket haul in the Old Trafford Test to bag his first ever Man of the Series award.
His big test was though against arch-rivals Australia and he acquitted pretty well, picking up 14 wickets in three Test matches during the series, including a career best 6/125 at the Gabba, Brisbane. He was expensive though at WACA and was left out of the squad for the final two Test matches.
A drastic dip in form relegated Finn to the sidelines as Tim Bresnan and Chris Tremlett edged ahead in the three-way-race for the third seamer's slot behind James Anderson and Broad. Though he was ignored for the Test format, he was a force to reckon with in the abbreviated versions of the game, as illustrated by his eye-catching bowling displays on rather docile Indian pitches.
Finn returned to the Test fray in 2012 against South Africa, but an ill-advised tendency to disturb the stumps in his delivery stride seeped into his bowling system, often denying him richly deserved wickets. Eventually, the ICC was forced to make a rule that if a bowler disturbs the non-striker's stumps while delivering, then the ball will be declared a no ball. He shortened his run-up in an attempt to arrest this problem but it adversely affected his rhythm. In the interim, the tearaway quick had to pull out of England's monumental Test victory in India because of a troublesome thigh injury. A sub-par bowling performance in the first Test of the 2013 Ashes in England forced him to warm the benches yet again.
Finn, however, was picked up for the return Ashes Down Under, just to be deemed unfit to play in the XI. He didn't play a single Test and was sent back home halfway through the series. Finn, then, went back and worked on his bowling and came back in the ODI series against India. He also travelled to Sri Lanka, but was not at his best. The tri-series Down Under involving Australia and India, saw Finn back at his menacing best. The tall fast bowler picked up his maiden ODI five-wicket haul versus India, which also gave him the Man of the Match award. He along with Anderson, Broad and Chris Woakes form the four-man pace attack for England in the World Cup.
Back from the World Cup, Finn showed some signs of returning to his previous best, grabbing six for 79 against arch-rivals, Australia, in Birmingham. It turned out to be a false ray of hope though - Finn never came anywhere close to replicating those figures in the next few matches, although he did chip in usefully to help England beat South Africa in the Boxing Day Test in Durban. The emergence of new talent left Finn behind in the race to partner Anderson and Broad - the strapping Middlesex seamer was left out from the squad for the tour of India in late 2016.
Finn continues to be a part of England's one-day set-up though - recalled for the tour of West Indies in early 2017. He has also found favour with various Twenty20 franchises, having already represented Otago and Islamabad United. During the inauguration player draft of Global T20 league, he was picked up by the Pretoria Mavericks as one of their overseas players.
Heres what ESPNcricinfo says about him.
Six-foot-seven-inch Steven Finn was one in a line of beanpole fast bowlers to carry England's hopes in the 2010s, but despite a heady blend of pace and trampolining bounce that fetched him a respectable Test average of 30, it was a mantle he did not always carry happily.
Finn made his county debut for Middlesex as a 16-year-old in 2005, and went on to represent England at all age-group levels from Under-16s upwards. He had a solid 2009 season for Middlesex, taking 53 wickets at 30.64 in the County Championship. He was brought in as injury cover on England's tour to Bangladesh in 2010, and impressed on his Test debut there, displaying good pace and bounce on a docile Chittagong surface. His home debut also came against Bangladesh later in the year, when he carried a rusty England attack with nine wickets at Lord's, in just his third Test.
In Australia at the end of that year, he took 6 for 125 to help turn the tide in the first Test at the Gabba, before stepping into the breach left by an injury to Stuart Broad to help seal victory in in Adelaide.
Finn played just one Test in 2011, though an impressive tour of India pushed him firmly into one-day contention. The following home summer, his habit of hitting the stumps in his delivery stride became costly when Graeme Smith drew attention to it at Headingley. The umpires decided to call dead ball and Finn was denied Smith's wicket. A few months later a law was created, making any wicket taken after a bowler had knocked over the stumps a no-ball.
Finn's career went into reverse in 2013-14. He was sent home from England's tour of Australia after being deemed "not selectable". This kicked off a period when he was in and out of the side, during which endless tinkering with his action left him short of confidence. He experimented with a shortened run-up, but his rhythm had been affected.
After that tumultuous winter, he rebuilt his confidence with the help of Middlesex bowling coach Richard Johnson and had success in the 2015 Ashes series, taking six wickets in an innings at Edgbaston. He then acquitted himself ably enough in England's series win in South Africa the following season, only for his career to take another twist when he lost his limited-overs place just as he returned to Test cricket.
In 2016 he took just five wickets in two Tests against Pakistan at home, and one against Bangladesh away, and though he played a handful of ODIs the next season, that was it for his international career.