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Chris Lewis
England
Player profile
Full name Clairmonte Christopher Lewis
Born February 14, 1968, Georgetown, Demerara, Guyana
Current age 40 years 329 days
Major teams England, Leicestershire, Nottinghamshire, Surrey
Nickname Carl
Batting style Right-hand bat
Bowling style Right-arm fast-medium
Height
6 ft 2 in
Education Willesden High School
Batting and fielding averages
|
Mat |
Inns |
NO |
Runs |
HS |
Ave |
BF |
SR |
100 |
50 |
4s |
6s |
Ct |
St |
| Tests |
32 |
51 |
3 |
1105 |
117 |
23.02 |
2421 |
45.64 |
1 |
4 |
137 |
6 |
25 |
0 |
| ODIs |
53 |
40 |
14 |
374 |
33 |
14.38 |
459 |
81.48 |
0 |
0 |
25 |
6 |
20 |
0 |
| First-class |
189 |
275 |
34 |
7406 |
247 |
30.73 |
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9 |
34 |
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154 |
0 |
| List A |
266 |
217 |
56 |
3959 |
116* |
24.59 |
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1 |
14 |
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104 |
0 |
| Twenty20 |
1 |
1 |
0 |
2 |
2 |
2.00 |
4 |
50.00 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
Bowling averages
|
Mat |
Inns |
Balls |
Runs |
Wkts |
BBI |
BBM |
Ave |
Econ |
SR |
4w |
5w |
10 |
| Tests |
32 |
55 |
6852 |
3490 |
93 |
6/111 |
7/114 |
37.52 |
3.05 |
73.6 |
3 |
3 |
0 |
| ODIs |
53 |
49 |
2625 |
1942 |
66 |
4/30 |
4/30 |
29.42 |
4.43 |
39.7 |
4 |
0 |
0 |
| First-class |
189 |
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32004 |
16225 |
543 |
6/22 |
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29.88 |
3.04 |
58.9 |
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20 |
3 |
| List A |
266 |
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11846 |
8232 |
312 |
5/19 |
5/19 |
26.38 |
4.16 |
37.9 |
10 |
2 |
0 |
| Twenty20 |
1 |
1 |
12 |
29 |
0 |
- |
- |
- |
14.50 |
- |
0 |
0 |
0 |
Career statistics
| Test debut |
England v New Zealand at Birmingham, Jul 5-10, 1990 scorecard |
| Last Test |
England v Pakistan at The Oval, Aug 22-26, 1996 scorecard |
| Test statistics |
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| ODI debut |
West Indies v England at Port of Spain, Feb 14, 1990 scorecard |
| Last ODI |
England v South Africa at Manchester, May 23, 1998 scorecard |
| ODI statistics |
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| First-class span |
1987 - 2000 |
| List A debut |
1987 |
| Last List A |
Surrey v Middlesex at The Oval, Apr 20, 2008 scorecard |
| Only Twenty20 |
Surrey v Essex at The Oval, Jun 11, 2008 scorecard |
When he wasn't posing for a magazine in his underwear, shaving his head and getting sunstroke, or turning up late for practice because of a "flat tyre", Lewis could touch the heights few in the county game can reach. His fast-medium seamers were propelled by an athletic, high action, his batting was full of exquisite onside drives and fierce cuts, and his fielding could be sensational. But, apart from some excellent bowling in the 1992 World Cup, he rarely delivered when England needed him most, and his many critics got stuck in. He started at Leicestershire, then had spells at Notts and Surrey, where he helped win the Sunday League in 1996 and the B&H in '97, before returning to Grace Road. All the time he was in and out of the Test side, despite going on six consecutive tours and hitting a hundred in a lost cause at Madras in 1992-93. But Lewis was never fully accepted by his peers, and he was ostracised further when, in 1999, it emerged that he had passed on the names of three England cricketers allegedly involved in match-fixing to the ECB. He drifted out of the game an unfulfilled talent. He returned to Surrey in 2008, aged 40, when he signed a surprise pay-as-you-play contract for the Twenty20 Cup but it didn't prove a success as injury brought it to an early end. Another surprise followed before the year was out, when Lewis was arrested at Gatwick Airport, charged with smuggling more than £200,000 of cocaine into the country.
Lawrence Booth December 2008
Apr 20, 2008 |
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Chris Lewis in action on his Surrey comeback
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Apr 8, 2008 |
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Chris Lewis on his comeback photocall
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Mar 17, 2008 |
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Chris Lewis poses after re-signing with Surrey
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