Michael Yardy
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Michael Howard Yardy is an English
cricket
er. He captains Sussex County Cricket Club
and is a left-handed batsman whose unusual technique has attracted a great deal of attention due to a pronounced shuffle from leg to off immediately prior to the bowler releasing the ball. Yardy also bowls slow left arm with a characteristic round armed action similar to that of Australia's Darren Lehmann
, and is used as a bowling all-rounder in England's ODI and Twenty20
teams.
in May 1999, although it was not a very successful way to begin his career: opening the batting, he was lbw
for nought and went for 14 from two wicketless overs. He also played a one-day
game against Sri Lanka A
, again with little success, and though he played a few games the following year it was only in 2001 that he became anything like a regular in the side. He played ten games in 2002, but only seven in total over the next two years, before returning with a vengeance in 2005.
He enjoyed an excellent domestic summer that season, making 1,520 first-class runs at 56.29
with five centuries, including a career-best 257 against the Bangladeshis
in May. Only Murray Goodwin
, who hit 344*
in 2009, had made a higher score for Sussex since the Second World War. In the one-day game, Yardy was less successful with the bat, averaging well under 20, but he achieved a career-best bowling performance of 6-27 against Warwickshire
in the totesport League
.
He was appointed as Sussex's County Captain for the 2009 season, succeeding Chris Adams.
tour of West Indies in 2005-06, and the following summer he forced his way into the full England team
. On 10 August 2006, he was provisionally selected for England's ICC Champions Trophy
initial squad of 30, retaining his place in the final 14-man squad that was announced on 12 September. On 23 August, he was also named in the 16-man squad for the NatWest Series of One Day Internationals against Pakistan
.
Making his full international debut in the Twenty20
international at Bristol on 28 August, Yardy made a useful unbeaten 24 from 14 balls and followed this with an excellent catch to dismiss Shahid Afridi
off the bowling of Jamie Dalrymple
. Yardy then proceeded to have Mohammad Yousuf caught by Ian Bell to claim his first international wicket and cap a personally successful debut, although he could not prevent England succumbing to a five wicket defeat.
On 8 September Yardy made his England ODI debut against Pakistan
at Trent Bridge
, where he bowled Mohammad Yousuf for 29 and caught and bowled Shoaib Malik
for a duck. Later that match he had the Pakistani wicket-keeper
Kamran Akmal
caught at slip
by captain Andrew Strauss
. In his ten overs Yardy took 3-24, the best figures by an England spinner on his ODI debut.
In December, Yardy was excluded from the England squad for the Commonwealth Bank one-day series in Australia
following a disappointing ICC Champions Trophy
performance in India. There was a consolation for the all-rounder early in 2007, however, as he was named captain of the England A squad to tour Bangladesh
, indicating that he may be able to revive his England career. On 22 June 2007, Yardy was selected in the 14-man ODI and Twenty20
squad for England against the West Indies.
It appeared that Yardy's international future was over. However, he was recalled in 2010 to England's Twenty20 squad for the 2010 World Twenty20 in the West Indies. He was ever-present in the tournament, taking 4 wickets at an average of 34.00 and economy rate of 6.80, which England won after beating Australia in the final.
Yardy was then recalled to the ODI side and was again ever-present in the early-summer series against Australia and then Bangladesh, which England won 3-2 and 2-1 respectively. Although he only took 4 wickets in 8 games, he proved to be economical, going at only 4.36 an over, and he also picked up his first international half-century, scoring 57 at The Oval
against Australia.
Yardy was selected in England's 15-man squad for the 2011 World Cup
, hosted by Bangladesh, India, and Sri Lanka between February and April. He opened the bowling in a match against South Africa, just the second time a spinner had opened the bowling for England in ODIs. On 24 March 2011 it was announced that Yardy has flown home from the Cricket World Cup
suffering with depression.
England
England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west, with the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south separating it from continental...
cricket
Cricket
Cricket is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of 11 players on an oval-shaped field, at the centre of which is a rectangular 22-yard long pitch. One team bats, trying to score as many runs as possible while the other team bowls and fields, trying to dismiss the batsmen and thus limit the...
er. He captains Sussex County Cricket Club
Sussex County Cricket Club
Sussex County Cricket Club is the oldest of the 18 major county clubs which make up the English and Welsh domestic cricket structure, representing the historic county of Sussex. The club was founded as a successor to Brighton Cricket Club which was a representative of the county of Sussex as a...
and is a left-handed batsman whose unusual technique has attracted a great deal of attention due to a pronounced shuffle from leg to off immediately prior to the bowler releasing the ball. Yardy also bowls slow left arm with a characteristic round armed action similar to that of Australia's Darren Lehmann
Darren Lehmann
Darren Scott Lehmann is a former Australian cricketer, who made his ODI debut in 1996 and Test debut in 1998. He was on the fringes of national selection for the entirety of the 1990s, and only became a regular in the ODI team in 2001 and Test team in late 2002, before being dropped in early 2005...
, and is used as a bowling all-rounder in England's ODI and Twenty20
Twenty20
Twenty20 is a form of cricket, originally introduced in England for professional inter-county competition by the England and Wales Cricket Board , in 2003. A Twenty20 game involves two teams, each has a single innings, batting for a maximum of 20 overs. Twenty20 cricket is also known as T20 cricket...
teams.
Domestic career
Yardy made his Sussex debut in an early-season NatWest Trophy game against HertfordshireHertfordshire County Cricket Club
Hertfordshire County Cricket Club is one of the county clubs which make up the Minor Counties in the English domestic cricket structure, representing the historic county of Hertfordshire and playing in the Minor Counties Championship and the MCCA Knockout Trophy...
in May 1999, although it was not a very successful way to begin his career: opening the batting, he was lbw
Leg before wicket
In the sport of cricket, leg before wicket is one of the ways in which a batsman can be dismissed. An umpire will rule a batsman out LBW under a series of circumstances which primarily include the ball striking the batsman's body when it would otherwise have continued on to hit the batsman's...
for nought and went for 14 from two wicketless overs. He also played a one-day
One-day cricket
Limited overs cricket, also known as one-day cricket and in a slightly different context as List A cricket, is a version of the sport of cricket in which a match is generally completed in one day, whereas Test and first-class matches can take up to five days to complete...
game against Sri Lanka A
Sri Lanka A cricket team
The Sri Lanka A cricket team is a national cricket team representing Sri Lanka. It is the 'second-tier' of international Sri Lankan cricket, below the full Sri Lanka national cricket team. Matches played by Sri Lanka A are not considered to be Test matches or One Day Internationals, instead...
, again with little success, and though he played a few games the following year it was only in 2001 that he became anything like a regular in the side. He played ten games in 2002, but only seven in total over the next two years, before returning with a vengeance in 2005.
He enjoyed an excellent domestic summer that season, making 1,520 first-class runs at 56.29
Batting average
Batting average is a statistic in both cricket and baseball that measures the performance of cricket batsmen and baseball hitters. The two statistics are related in that baseball averages are directly descended from the concept of cricket averages.- Cricket :...
with five centuries, including a career-best 257 against the Bangladeshis
Bangladeshi cricket team
The Bangladesh national cricket team is a national cricket team representing Bangladesh. The team is administered by the Bangladesh Cricket Board . Bangladesh is a full member of the International Cricket Council with Test and One Day International status...
in May. Only Murray Goodwin
Murray Goodwin
Murray William Goodwin is a cricketer who played 19 Tests and 71 One Day Internationals for Zimbabwe. He is a right-handed top order batsman strong on the back-foot and a good cutter and puller of the ball....
, who hit 344*
Not out
In cricket, a batsman will be not out if he comes out to bat in an innings and has not been dismissed by the end of the innings. One may similarly describe a batsman as not out while the innings is still in progress...
in 2009, had made a higher score for Sussex since the Second World War. In the one-day game, Yardy was less successful with the bat, averaging well under 20, but he achieved a career-best bowling performance of 6-27 against Warwickshire
Warwickshire County Cricket Club
Warwickshire County Cricket Club is one of the 18 major county clubs which make up the English and Welsh domestic cricket structure, representing the historic county of Warwickshire. Its limited overs team is called the Warwickshire Bears. Their kit colours are black and gold and the shirt sponsor...
in the totesport League
National League (cricket)
The NatWest Pro40 League was a one-day cricket league for first-class cricket counties in England and Wales. It was inaugurated in 1999, but was essentially the old Sunday League retitled to reflect the fact that large numbers of matches were played on days other than Sunday.-Sunday League:The...
.
He was appointed as Sussex's County Captain for the 2009 season, succeeding Chris Adams.
International career
Yardy was picked for the England AEngland A cricket team
The England Lions cricket team is a cricket team representing England and Wales. It is the "second-tier" of international English cricket below the full England cricket team, and is largely intended as a way for promising young cricketers to gain experience of playing international cricket...
tour of West Indies in 2005-06, and the following summer he forced his way into the full England team
English cricket team
The England and Wales cricket team is a cricket team which represents England and Wales. Until 1992 it also represented Scotland. Since 1 January 1997 it has been governed by the England and Wales Cricket Board , having been previously governed by Marylebone Cricket Club from 1903 until the end...
. On 10 August 2006, he was provisionally selected for England's ICC Champions Trophy
ICC Champions Trophy
The ICC Champions Trophy is a One Day International cricket tournament, second in importance only to the Cricket World Cup. It was inaugurated as the ICC Knock Out tournament in 1998 and has been played every two years since, changing its name to the Champions Trophy in 2002...
initial squad of 30, retaining his place in the final 14-man squad that was announced on 12 September. On 23 August, he was also named in the 16-man squad for the NatWest Series of One Day Internationals against Pakistan
Pakistani cricket team
The Pakistan cricket team is the national cricket team of Pakistan. Pakistan, represented by the Pakistan Cricket Board , is a full member of the International Cricket Council, and thus participates in , and cricket matches....
.
Making his full international debut in the Twenty20
Twenty20
Twenty20 is a form of cricket, originally introduced in England for professional inter-county competition by the England and Wales Cricket Board , in 2003. A Twenty20 game involves two teams, each has a single innings, batting for a maximum of 20 overs. Twenty20 cricket is also known as T20 cricket...
international at Bristol on 28 August, Yardy made a useful unbeaten 24 from 14 balls and followed this with an excellent catch to dismiss Shahid Afridi
Shahid Afridi
Sahibzada Mohammad Shahid Khan Afridi , popularly known as Shahid Afridi , is a Pakistani cricketer. Between 1996 and 2011, Afridi played 27 Tests, 325 One Day Internationals, and 43 Twenty20 Internationals for the Pakistani national team...
off the bowling of Jamie Dalrymple
Jamie Dalrymple
James William Murray "Jamie" Dalrymple is a Kenyan-born English cricketer. He is a right-handed batsman and off-spin bowler....
. Yardy then proceeded to have Mohammad Yousuf caught by Ian Bell to claim his first international wicket and cap a personally successful debut, although he could not prevent England succumbing to a five wicket defeat.
On 8 September Yardy made his England ODI debut against Pakistan
Pakistani cricket team
The Pakistan cricket team is the national cricket team of Pakistan. Pakistan, represented by the Pakistan Cricket Board , is a full member of the International Cricket Council, and thus participates in , and cricket matches....
at Trent Bridge
Trent Bridge
Trent Bridge is a Test, One-day international and County cricket ground located in West Bridgford, Nottinghamshire, England and is also the headquarters of Nottinghamshire County Cricket Club. As well as International cricket and Nottinghamshire's home games, the ground has hosted the Finals Day of...
, where he bowled Mohammad Yousuf for 29 and caught and bowled Shoaib Malik
Shoaib Malik
Shoaib Malik is a Pakistani cricket player and former captain. He made his One-Day International debut in 1999 against the West Indies and his Test debut in 2001 against Bangladesh. He has taken over 100 ODI wickets, and has a batting average in the mid 30s in both Test and ODI cricket...
for a duck. Later that match he had the Pakistani wicket-keeper
Wicket-keeper
The wicket-keeper in the sport of cricket is the player on the fielding side who stands behind the wicket or stumps being guarded by the batsman currently on strike...
Kamran Akmal
Kamran Akmal
Kamran Akmal is a Pakistani cricketer who has played Tests, ODIs and T20Is for Pakistan as a wicket-keeper.- International career :He is a quick-scoring batsman and a wicket-keeper, who has achieved 6 centuries in Test innings...
caught at slip
Slip (cricket)
In the sport of cricket, a slip fielder is placed behind the batsman on the off side of the field. They are placed with the aim of catching an edged ball which is beyond the wicket-keeper's reach. Many teams employ two or three slips...
by captain Andrew Strauss
Andrew Strauss
Andrew John Strauss, OBE is an English cricketer who plays county cricket for Middlesex County Cricket Club and is the captain of England's Test cricket team. A fluent left-handed opening batsman, Strauss favours scoring off the back foot, mostly playing cut and pull shots...
. In his ten overs Yardy took 3-24, the best figures by an England spinner on his ODI debut.
In December, Yardy was excluded from the England squad for the Commonwealth Bank one-day series in Australia
Australia
Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...
following a disappointing ICC Champions Trophy
2006 ICC Champions Trophy
The 2006 ICC Champions Trophy was a One Day International cricket tournament held in India from 7 October to 5 November 2006. It was the fifth edition of the ICC Champions Trophy...
performance in India. There was a consolation for the all-rounder early in 2007, however, as he was named captain of the England A squad to tour Bangladesh
Bangladesh
Bangladesh , officially the People's Republic of Bangladesh is a sovereign state located in South Asia. It is bordered by India on all sides except for a small border with Burma to the far southeast and by the Bay of Bengal to the south...
, indicating that he may be able to revive his England career. On 22 June 2007, Yardy was selected in the 14-man ODI and Twenty20
Twenty20
Twenty20 is a form of cricket, originally introduced in England for professional inter-county competition by the England and Wales Cricket Board , in 2003. A Twenty20 game involves two teams, each has a single innings, batting for a maximum of 20 overs. Twenty20 cricket is also known as T20 cricket...
squad for England against the West Indies.
It appeared that Yardy's international future was over. However, he was recalled in 2010 to England's Twenty20 squad for the 2010 World Twenty20 in the West Indies. He was ever-present in the tournament, taking 4 wickets at an average of 34.00 and economy rate of 6.80, which England won after beating Australia in the final.
Yardy was then recalled to the ODI side and was again ever-present in the early-summer series against Australia and then Bangladesh, which England won 3-2 and 2-1 respectively. Although he only took 4 wickets in 8 games, he proved to be economical, going at only 4.36 an over, and he also picked up his first international half-century, scoring 57 at The Oval
The Oval
The Kia Oval, still commonly referred to by its original name of The Oval, is an international cricket ground in Kennington, in the London Borough of Lambeth. In the past it was also sometimes called the Kennington Oval...
against Australia.
Yardy was selected in England's 15-man squad for the 2011 World Cup
2011 Cricket World Cup
The 2011 ICC Cricket World Cup was the tenth Cricket World Cup. It was played in India, Sri Lanka, and Bangladesh. It was Bangladesh's first time co-hosting a World Cup...
, hosted by Bangladesh, India, and Sri Lanka between February and April. He opened the bowling in a match against South Africa, just the second time a spinner had opened the bowling for England in ODIs. On 24 March 2011 it was announced that Yardy has flown home from the Cricket World Cup
2011 Cricket World Cup
The 2011 ICC Cricket World Cup was the tenth Cricket World Cup. It was played in India, Sri Lanka, and Bangladesh. It was Bangladesh's first time co-hosting a World Cup...
suffering with depression.
External links
- Michael Yardy (sussexcricket.co.uk)
- Statistical summary from CricketArchiveCricketArchiveCricketArchive is a website that aims to provide a comprehensive archive of records relating to the sport of cricket. It claims to be the most comprehensive cricket database on the internet, including scorecards for all matches of first-class cricket , List A cricket , Women's Test cricket and...