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Angus Robert Charles Fraser born 8 August 1965, in Billinge Higher EndHigher End

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, WiganWigan

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, LancashireLancashire Summary

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, is a former EnglishEngland

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 cricketCricket

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er who attended the John Lyon SchoolJohn Lyon School

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 in Harrow, Middlesex.

Perhaps his finest hour came in the BarbadosBarbados

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 Test matchFacts About Test cricket

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 of the 1993/94 West Indies tour, when Fraser took 8-75 in the first inningsInnings

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 to help set up a famous victory, West Indies' first defeat at Bridgetown for more than half a century. His career-best first-class cricketFirst-class cricket

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 figures, 8-53, were also taken in a Test against the same opposition, this time at Port of SpainFacts About Port of Spain

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, Trinidad and TobagoTrinidad and Tobago

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 in 1997/98. Despite taking eight wickets in an innings, he did not win the Man of the MatchFacts About Man of the match

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 award, which went to Carl HooperCarl Hooper

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 from the winning West Indies side.

His ODI high score of 38 not out, scored late in the innings at No. 10 and including a massive six off Steve WaughSteve Waugh

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, almost brought England back from the brink of defeat against Australia during the 1990/91 tour (Australia won by three runs). Another fine moment with the bat was in a last-wicket second-innings stand with Robert CroftRobert Croft

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 to save the third Test at Old Trafford against South Africa in 1998.

Despite his Lancashire birthplace, Fraser played all of his county cricketCounty cricket

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 for MiddlesexMiddlesex County Cricket Club Overview

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, in a first-class career running from 1984 to 2002.
He served as the county captain from 2001 until his retirement in 2002, when he was appointed as the cricket correspondent of The IndependentThe Independent

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newspaper. He is also a regular contributor to the BBC's Test Match SpecialTest Match Special

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.

In the 1996 edition of WisdenWisden

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, he was one of the Wisden Cricketers of the YearWisden Cricketers of the Year

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He currently now resides in Stanmore with his wife and two children, Alexander and Bethan.

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