tim ambrose Profile - ICC Profile, Age, Career Info & Stats.
tim ambrose is a cricketer(sportsman) from England. His ICC profile, age, career info & stats are given below.
Full Name
Timothy Raymond Ambrose
Born
December 01, 1982, Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia
Age
40 years old
Nicknames
Freak
Batting Style
Right hand Bat
Fielding Position
Wicketkeeper
Playing Role
Middle order Batter
Height
5ft 7in
Education
Merewether Selective High, NSW
Batting Stats
Test | ODI | T20I | IPL | |
---|---|---|---|---|
Mat | 11 | 5 | 1 | - |
Inn | 16 | 5 | - | - |
Runs | 447 | 10 | - | - |
Avg | 29.8 | 2.5 | - | - |
SR | 46.42 | 29.41 | - | - |
HS | 102 | 6 | - | - |
NO | 1 | 1 | - | - |
100s | 1 | 0 | - | - |
50s | 3 | 0 | - | - |
4s | 55 | 0 | - | - |
6s | 4 | 0 | - | - |
Bowling Stats
Test | ODI | T20I | IPL | |
---|---|---|---|---|
Mat | 11 | 5 | 1 | - |
Inn | - | - | - | - |
Balls | - | - | - | - |
Runs | - | - | - | - |
Wkt | - | - | - | - |
BBI | - | - | - | - |
BBM | - | - | - | - |
Eco | - | - | - | - |
Avg | - | - | - | - |
5W | - | - | - | - |
10W | - | - | - | - |
Teams he has played for:
- England
- New Jersey Triton's
- Sussex
- Warwickshire
Heres what CricBuzz says about him.
Born on 01 December 1982, Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia, Tim Ambrose moved to England at the age of 17 and established himself as a powerful wicket-keeper batsman at Sussex. His breakthrough year came in 2003, where Ambrose notched up 900 runs averaging over 40 in County championship and helping Sussex win their first ever championship title in the process.
However, with increased pressure from Prior for keeping duties at Sussex, Tim decided to switch to Warwickshire in 2006 and it took nearly a year and a half to stamp his impact on the side. His highest first-class score, achieved in May 2007, was an innings of 251 not out, against Worcestershire that helped him remain in England's plans for the foreseeable future.
In 2008, the inevitable came up as Ambrose debuted for England in Seddon Park and impressed with a gritty fifty in his maiden innings in Test cricket. He followed it up with a stunning century in the next Test that helped England draw level the series before winning the final Test and the series in Napier. That Test series proved to be a stepping stone for Ambrose to translate his dreams, but lack of consistency and with Prior breathing down his neck, the pressure got the better of Ambrose and he eventually failed to keep up his form against South Africa during the home summer of 2008.
Post the ebbs and flows of his international career, Ambrose got one final crack at Test cricket with Prior returning home to witness the birth of his first child, and that was all Ambrose could manage before falling back to County circles.
A strong player of the back foot, Ambrose is a compulsive cutter and when in full flow, there are very few that could match his keeping skills. Nicknamed as 'Freak', Ambrose anticipated the end of his cricketing career in 2010 with a serious dip in form and depression issues that fiddled with his mental stability. Warwickshire, though, remained interested, and it paid great dividends as Ambrose hit the ground running in 2012 after taking time off with the help of a psychologist. Post that recovery, Ambrose continued to be a part of Warwickshire's integral group and has also starred in their title triumph of 'Natwest T20 Blast' in 2014.
Heres what ESPNcricinfo says about him.
Tim Ambrose could be forgiven for considering himself the forgotten man of English cricket. In the last of his 11 Tests, in Barbados in early 2009, Ambrose made an unbeaten 76 and kept tidily enough in tricky conditions as West Indies batted for the best part of 200 overs.
Sent back to county cricket and ordered to score more runs, he duly made a century for England Lions against the touring West Indies and another against Hampshire in the Championship. But the selectors never rang again. Not even to offer an explanation.
Perhaps they felt his batting was over-reliant upon the cut. Perhaps they felt that he was prone to fluctuations in form that rendered him somewhat unreliable. But in an age when many keepers are manufactured, Ambrose was highly accomplished with the gloves and, by jettisoning him when he was just 26, England probably never saw the best of him.
Born in Australia, Ambrose utilised the British passport he gained via his mother to move to the UK as a 17-year-old in 2000. He soon signed for Sussex and, as naturally gifted keeper and batsman, he made his first-class debut the following year and, by 2003, the year Sussex won the first Championship title in their history, he had gained the lion's share of the keeping duties from Matt Prior. He also scored more than 900 runs at an average in excess of 40.
The contest between the two of them was to be a theme of Ambrose's career. Even though there were times when he took the gloves from Prior for Sussex and England, Prior always returned stronger to reclaim his position.
For that reason, Ambrose took the decision to leave Sussex at the end of 2005 and make a new start at Warwickshire. He made a century in his second first-class game for the team and started the 2007 season with a career-best 251 not out against Worcestershire. The England selectors took notice.
His Test debut came in New Zealand. After a half-century on debut, he made a century at Wellington in his second match that turned the series in England's favour. But he was unable to sustain that form and, by the time England left for their tour of India, he was Prior's reserve once again. His one return, for that game in Barbados, came when Prior flew home to witness the birth of his first child.
Ambrose's form fell away sharply in 2010 and he averaged only 13 with the bat. He later revealed he had been suffering from an episode of depression and, by the end of that season with his contract finished and his love for the game ebbing, he cleared his locker at Edgbaston in expectation that his career was over.
Warwickshire were patient, though. With the help of a psychologist, he recovered something approaching his best form in 2011 and then played a key role in his side's Championship triumph of 2012. Despite some problems with a persistent hip problem, he retained that form in the following three seasons and featured in Birmingham's NatWest T20 Blast success in 2014.
George Dobell