(1966-05-23) 23 May 1966 (age 58) Salisbury, Rhodesia
Nickname
Hicky, Ash
Height
6 ft 3 in (1.91 m)
Batting
Right-handed
Bowling
Right-arm off break
Role
Batsman
International information
National sides
Zimbabwe (1983–1986)
England (1991–2001)
Test debut (cap 548)
6 June 1991 England v West Indies
Last Test
7 March 2001 England v Sri Lanka
ODI debut (cap 112)
23 May 1991 England v West Indies
Last ODI
27 March 2001 England v Sri Lanka
Domestic team information
Years
Team
1984–2008
Worcestershire
1987/88–1988/89
Northern Districts
1988–1991
MCC
1990/91
Queensland
1997/98
Auckland
Career statistics
Competition
Test
ODI
FC
LA
Matches
65
120
526
651
Runs scored
3,383
3,846
41,112
22,059
Batting average
31.32
37.33
52.23
41.30
100s/50s
6/18
5/27
136/158
40/139
Top score
178
126*
405*
172*
Balls bowled
3,057
1,236
20,889
8,604
Wickets
23
30
232
225
Bowling average
56.78
34.20
44.43
29.55
5 wickets in innings
0
1
5
4
10 wickets in match
0
0
1
0
Best bowling
4/126
5/33
5/18
5/19
Catches/stumpings
90/–
64/–
709/–
289/–
Medal record
Men's Cricket
Representing England
ICC Cricket World Cup
Runner-up
1992 Australia and New Zealand
Source: CricInfo, 14 September 2016
Graeme Ashley HickMBE (born 23 May 1966) is a Zimbabwean-born former England cricketer who played 65 Test matches and 120 One Day Internationals for England. He was born in Rhodesia, and as a young man played international cricket for Zimbabwe. He played English county cricket for Worcestershire for his entire English domestic career, a period of well over twenty years, and in 2008 surpassed Graham Gooch's record for the most matches in all forms of the game combined.[1] He was a part of the English squad which finished as runners-up at the 1992 Cricket World Cup.
He scored more than 40,000 first-class runs,[2] mostly from number three in the order, and he is one of only three players to have passed 20,000 runs in List A cricket (Graham Gooch and Sachin Tendulkar are the others) and is one of only twenty-five players to have scored 100 centuries in first-class cricket.[3] He is the only cricketer who scored first-class triple hundreds in three different decades (1988, 1997 and 2002).[4] He is the second highest run scorer of all time after Graham Gooch,[5] and the second highest century scorer after Jack Hobbs.[6] Despite these achievements, he is commonly held to have underachieved in international cricket, a view based on comparison of Hick's overall first-class batting average of 52.23 vis-à-vis his Test average of 31.32.
At one time Hick's bowling was a significant force, and his off-spin claimed more than 200 first-class wickets. However, after 2001 he rarely bowled, and took only one first-class and two List A wickets; indeed, after the 2004 season he did not bowl a single ball in either form of the game. Throughout his career he was an outstanding slip fielder: Gooch wrote in his autobiography that his ideal slip cordon would comprise Mark Taylor, Ian Botham and Hick.[7]
Hick was granted a benefit season by Worcestershire in 1999, which raised over £345,000;[8]
he was also awarded a testimonial in 2006.[9] Hick retired from county cricket at the end of the 2008 season,[10] to take up a coaching post at Malvern College. For the remaining part of the season, he joined Chandigarh Lions of the Indian Cricket League.[11]
^"Most matches in career". ESPNcricinfo.
^"Hick reaches run-scoring landmark". BBC News. 17 June 2007. Retrieved 17 June 2007.
^"10,000 or More Runs in List A Matches". CricketArchive. Retrieved 25 September 2006.
^Frindall, Bill (2009). Ask Bearders. BBC Books. p. 99. ISBN 978-1-84607-880-4.
^"Records | Combined First-class, List A and Twenty20 | Batting records | Most runs in career". ESPNcricinfo. Retrieved 16 November 2021.
^"Records | Combined First-class, List A and Twenty20 | Batting records | Most hundreds in career". ESPNcricinfo. Retrieved 16 July 2022.
^Gooch, Graham; Frank Keating (1995). Gooch: My Autobiography. London: CollinsWillow. p. 178. ISBN 0-00-218474-5.
^"Graeme Hick". CricketArchive. Retrieved 25 September 2006.
^"Hick awarded testimonial". ESPNcricinfo. 8 November 2005. Retrieved 25 September 2006.
^"Hick to retire at end of season". BBC Sport. 2 September 2008. Retrieved 2 September 2008.
^"Graeme Hick joins the ICL". ESPNcricinfo. 1 November 2008. Retrieved 1 November 2008.
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