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Chris Woakes 
Personal information Full name Christopher Roger Woakes Born 2 March 1989
Birmingham, West Midlands, EnglandHeight 6 ft 1 in (1.85 m) Batting style Right-handed Bowling style Right-arm medium-fast Role All-rounder International information National side England ODI debut (cap 217) 23 January 2011 v Australia Last ODI 30 January 2011 v Australia ODI shirt no. 31 T20I debut (cap 51) 12 January 2011 v Australia Last T20I 25 June 2011 v Sri Lanka Domestic team information Years Team 2006–present Warwickshire (squad no. 19) Career statistics Competition ODI T20I FC LA Matches 3 3 56 49 Runs scored 20 37 1,767 298 Batting average 10.00 37.00 32.12 15.68 100s/50s 0/0 0/0 4/5 0/0 Top score 12 19* 136* 49* Balls bowled 158 60 9,560 1,917 Wickets 7 2 201 52 Bowling average 21.28 47.00 24.49 33.09 5 wickets in innings 1 0 11 1 10 wickets in match – – 2 – Best bowling 6/45 1/29 7/20 6/45 Catches/stumpings 1/– 1/– 29/– 12/– Source: CricketArchive, 25 July 2011 Christopher Roger Woakes (born 2 March 1989) is an English cricketer. He is a right-handed batsman and a right-arm medium-fast pace bowler who found success at Warwickshire to the extent that he topped Warwickshire's 2008 county bowling averages, and was selected for the England Lions squad as well as the preliminary 2009 ICC World Twenty20 championship.[1]
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Early life
Woakes was born in March 1989 in Birmingham, and attended Barr Beacon Language College from 2000-2007. He began playing cricket when he was seven years old. He started out with Aston Manor Cricket Club, and then moved to Walmley Cricket Club to play a higher level of 1st Team cricket. He then played three games in the 2006 Minor Counties Trophy for Herefordshire, and for Warwickshire's under-15, under-17, Academy and Second XI teams between 2004 and 2007.[2]
Cricket career
Woakes represented Warwickshire in one match during the 2006 season, during a West Indian tour of England. Woakes picked up three wickets in the match. He has since represented Warwickshire in the Second XI Championship.[3]
He was a regular for the Warwickshire First XI in 2008. He took 42 wickets at an average of 20.57 over the course of the County Championship season, topping Warwickshire's bowling averages.[4]
On 6 April 2009, Woakes was given a call up to the England Cricket squad for the World Twenty20 in June. Allan Donald tipped Woakes as a future England international cricketer.[5] Woakes was then chosen to play for the England Lions in a warm-up match against the West Indies.[6] In the first innings, he achieved bowling figures of 6-43 (including the wickets of Ramnaresh Sarwan and Shivnarine Chanderpaul) as the West Indies were bowled out for 203.[7] During the same season he scored 131 not out against Hampshire, his maiden first-class century, batting at number nine and sharing a 222-run partnership with Jonathan Trott.[8] In an England Lions game against Australia cricket team Woakes was able to pick up the wickets of Ricky Ponting and Mike Hussey.
Woakes made his International Twenty20 debut on 12 January 2011 against Australia in Adelaide. Opening the bowling, he took figures of 1/34, taking the wicket of Australian captain Cameron White with his final delivery. He later scored the winning runs, as England won off the last ball with just one wicket left and one run required.
Woakes claimed his 200th first-class wicket in Warwickshire's victory over Sussex in the County Championship in July 2011.[9]
References
- ^ "Player Profile: Chris Woakes". CricInfo. ESPN. http://www.cricinfo.com/ci/content/player/247235.html. Retrieved 6 June 2009.
- ^ "Teams played for by Chris Woakes". Cricket Archive. http://cricketarchive.com/Players/89/89869/all_teams.html. Retrieved 6 June 2009.
- ^ "West Indies A tour of England Warwickshire v West Indies A". CricInfo. ESPN. 4 August 2006. http://www.cricinfo.com/ci/engine/match/225348.html. Retrieved 6 June 2009.
- ^ "Bowling in LV County Championship 2008 (Ordered by Average)". CricketArchive. http://www.cricketarchive.com/Archive/Events/ENG/LV_County_Championship_2008/Bowling_by_Average.html. Retrieved 1 May 2009.
- ^ "Donald tips Woakes as future star". CricInfo. ESPN. 14 April 2009. http://www.cricinfo.com/england/content/story/399561.html. Retrieved 6 June 2009.
- ^ "England Lions hammer West Indies". CricInfo. ESPN. 2 May 2009. http://www.cricinfo.com/engvwi2009/content/story/402637.html. Retrieved 6 June 2009.
- ^ "Woakes takes out West Indian top order". CricInfo. ESPN. 30 April 2009. http://www.cricinfo.com/engvwi2009/content/story/402375.html. Retrieved 6 June 2009.
- ^ Hampshire v Warwickshire, 2009
- ^ "Woakes happy with his 200th wicket". BBC Sport. 23 July 2011. http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/cricket/counties/warwickshire/9546424.stm. Retrieved 25 July 2011.
External links
- Chris Woakes at Cricket Archive
- Chris Woakes at Cricinfo
Categories:- 1989 births
- English cricketers
- Living people
- Warwickshire cricketers
- Herefordshire cricketers
- England Twenty20 International cricketers
- England One Day International cricketers
- Marylebone Cricket Club cricketers
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