Alex Tudor

Infobox Cricketer


nationality = English
country = England
country abbrev = ENG
name = Alex Tudor
picture = Alex Tudor.jpg
batting style = Right-hand bat
bowling style = Right-arm fast
balls = true
tests = 10
test runs = 229
test bat avg = 19.08
test 100s/50s = -/1
test top score = 99*
test overs = 1512
test wickets = 28
test bowl avg = 34.39
test 5s = 1
test 10s = -
test best bowling = 5/44
test catches/stumpings = 3/-
ODIs = 3
ODI runs = 9
ODI bat avg = 9.00
ODI 100s/50s = -/-
ODI top score = 6
ODI overs = 127
ODI wickets = 4
ODI bowl avg = 34.00
ODI 5s = -
ODI 10s = -
ODI best bowling = 2/30
ODI catches/stumpings = 1/-
date = 1 January
year = 2006
source = http://content-aus.cricinfo.com/ci/content/player/21607.html

Alex Jeremy Tudor (born 23 October 1977 in Kensington) is an English cricketer, playing again for his first club Surrey after a brief spell at Essex. He is a right-handed batsman and a right-arm fast bowler. He was awarded the NBC Denis Compton Award during the 1997 and 1998 season. A highly talented performer with bat and ball his career has been hampered by frequent injury trouble.

Tudor's Test debut came in the 1998/99 Ashes series in which he played solidly with the bat and further impressed selectors while bowling, winning the praise of his opponents, in particular Australia's captain Mark Taylor.

His further contributions with the bat were the subject of much attention as he batted against New Zealand and hit 99 not out, at the time the third highest score in a Test match by a nightwatchman (it is now the fourth) and the highest-ever score by an Englishman, which aided him towards a Cricket Writers' Club Young Cricketer of the Year award.

Initial omission from the 2002/03 Ashes squad was overruled when he was selected above several injured players. Injuries in 2003 and 2004 followed, and despite his recovery being aided by visits to the German doctor Dr Hans-Wilhem Muller-Wolfhart, Tudor was released from his contract by Surrey at the end of the 2004 season. Essex gave him the chance to continue playing first-class cricket the following season, but it was to be another year blighted by injury. He managed to return to action in 2006, playing almost the full season. [ [http://www.ecb.co.uk/news/domestic/fresh-start-for-essex-new-boy,3819,EN.html Tudor back to full fitness] ]

In August 2008, after a season in which he had failed to hold down a regular place in the Essex side, the county announced that they would be releasing Tudor at the end of the season. Later that month, he returned to Surrey, initially as part of a loan deal. [ [http://www.ecb.co.uk/news/domestic/counties/essex/essex-agree-to-let-tudor-go,301606,EN.html Essex agree to let Tudor go] ]

He holds the distinction of bowling one of the most expensive overs on record. Bowling for Surrey against Andrew Flintoff at Old Trafford in 1998 he went for 64444660 (34) and in bowling 2 no balls incurred, under ECB regulations at the time, four more penalty runs for a total of 38 runs in one over.

Tudor is a keen follower of football and supports Queens Park Rangers FC.

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ources

* [http://content-uk.cricinfo.com/ci/content/player/21607.html Alex Tudor] at Cricinfo