Steven Mullaney
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Steven John Mullaney is an English cricket
er who played in the 2006 U-19 Cricket World Cup
in Sri Lanka
. For the 2008-09 Australian season he played for South Caulfield in Melbourne
's Victorian Turf Cricket Association competition as that club's visiting professional. At the end of the 2009 season, Mullaney, having spent most of the year playing for the second XI, turned down a new contract with Lancashire and instead signed with Nottinghamshire
.
he was part of the first intake of Lancashire's cricket academy.
Between 2005 and 2006, Mullaney played two Youth Test matches
. He debuted on 2 February 2005; playing for England U-19s
for India U-19s
, Mullany bowled 8 overs
for 42 runs
in the match and scored 29 not out
(29*) and 14, batting at number six
in the first innings and number five in the second. England lost the match by an innings and 137 runs. His second and final Test was in July 2006 and also against India U-19s. He scored 0 and 31, both times batting at seven, and conceded 43 runs from 11 overs. He finished the tournament as England's leading wicket-taker, from 5 matches he took 9 wickets at an average of 15.11.
Also between 2005 and 2006, Mullaney played 15 Youth One Day Internationals. In that time, he scored 169 runs at an average of 16.90, with a highest score of 40, and took 10 wicket
s at an average
of 29.40 and best bowling figures of 3 wickets for 26 runs (3/26). During his time in the team, Mullaney took part in the 2006 U-19 World Cup. He had been dropped from the squad after a tour of Sri Lanka in July 2005, but was selected to play in the World Cup in February 2006 after England had a winless tour of Bangladesh.
Mullaney made his first-class
, list A, and Twenty20
debuts for Lancashire in 2006. His first team cricket with Lancashire in 2006–2009 was limited, and in that time he played 4 first-class matches, 7 list A matches, and three Twenty20 matches. In April 2007, Mullaney scored his maiden first-class century
. Playing against Durham University
, his innings of 165 not out
(165*) came at quicker than a run a ball and allowed Lancashire to win the match. His first hundred runs came off 92 balls and the next 65 from 26 and included 10 sixes
. It beat his previous highest score of 44. In the 2007 cricket season, Mullaney played for Northern Cricket Club
, in the Liverpool and District Cricket Competition
, averaging 70 with the bat and taking over 30 wickets. After he spent the winter of 2007/08 playing grade cricket
for McKinnon
in the Victorian Turf Cricket Association, Mullaney signed a professional contract with Atherton
Cricket Club in the Bolton Association at the start of the 2008 season. Speaking of his move from Northern to Atherton, Mullaney said "Northern was the turning point in my career, and I have left on really good terms to try and better myself. The league [Atherton play in] will not be quite as good, and the wickets aren't quite as good, but it will be a new challenge" and that "I think getting into the pro-ing side of things is an added pressure – but it is a pressure I am really looking forward to". He set his sights on establishing himself in Lancashire's second team in the 2008 season and then force his way into the first team.
In 2009, Mullaney was a regular in the top order
of the Lancashire second team which progressed to the final of the Second XI Championship
and the semi-final of the Second XI Trophy. At the end of the season he turned down a two-year contract with the club and signed for Nottinghamshire
.
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 who played in the 2006 U-19 Cricket World Cup
2006 U-19 Cricket World Cup
The 2006 ICC Under-19 Cricket World Cup was played in Sri Lanka from February 5 to February 19, 2006.The final was played between Pakistan and India in Colombo, which Pakistan won by 38 runs, enabling them to become the first back-to-back champions of the tournament.- Participating Nations :Sixteen...
in Sri Lanka
Sri Lanka
Sri Lanka, officially the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka is a country off the southern coast of the Indian subcontinent. Known until 1972 as Ceylon , Sri Lanka is an island surrounded by the Indian Ocean, the Gulf of Mannar and the Palk Strait, and lies in the vicinity of India and the...
. For the 2008-09 Australian season he played for South Caulfield in Melbourne
Melbourne
Melbourne is the capital and most populous city in the state of Victoria, and the second most populous city in Australia. The Melbourne City Centre is the hub of the greater metropolitan area and the Census statistical division—of which "Melbourne" is the common name. As of June 2009, the greater...
's Victorian Turf Cricket Association competition as that club's visiting professional. At the end of the 2009 season, Mullaney, having spent most of the year playing for the second XI, turned down a new contract with Lancashire and instead signed with Nottinghamshire
Nottinghamshire County Cricket Club
Nottinghamshire 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 Nottinghamshire, and the current county champions. Its limited overs team is called the Nottinghamshire Outlaws...
.
Early career and youth internationals
At the age of 17, Steven Mullaney joined Lancashire in 2003; along with Karl Brown, Steven Croft, and Tom SmithTom Smith (cricketer)
Thomas Christopher Smith, , is a cricketer who currently plays for Lancashire County Cricket Club. He has also been a member of the England Academy team. In 2008, he played for Leicestershire on loan because he was unable to break into Lancashire's first team. He is an all-rounder, bowling...
he was part of the first intake of Lancashire's cricket academy.
Between 2005 and 2006, Mullaney played two Youth Test matches
Test cricket
Test cricket is the longest form of the sport of cricket. Test matches are played between national representative teams with "Test status", as determined by the International Cricket Council , with four innings played between two teams of 11 players over a period of up to a maximum five days...
. He debuted on 2 February 2005; playing for England U-19s
English U-19 cricket team
The English Under-19 cricket team have been playing official Under-19 test matches since 1974. Prior to 1991/92 they were known as England Young Cricketers....
for India U-19s
Indian U-19 cricket team
The Indian Under-19 cricket team represents the nation of India in cricket at Under-19 level.-2011 Current Team:* Unmukt Chand* Manan Vohra* B Aparajith* M.Bhattacharya* Harmeet Singh* Kumar Deobrat * AD Nath * S Patel * Rush Kalaria...
, Mullany bowled 8 overs
Over (cricket)
In the sport of cricket, an over is a set of six consecutive balls bowled in succession. An over is normally bowled by a single bowler. However, in the event of injury preventing a bowler from completing an over, it is completed by a teammate....
for 42 runs
Run (cricket)
In the sport of cricket, a run is the basic unit of scoring. Runs are scored by a batsman, and the aggregate of the scores of a team's batsmen constitutes the team's score. A batsman scoring 50 or 100 runs , or any higher multiple of 50 runs, is considered a particular achievement...
in the match and scored 29 not out
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...
(29*) and 14, batting at number six
Batting order (cricket)
In cricket, the batting order is the sequence in which batsmen play through their team's innings, there always being two batsmen taking part at any one time...
in the first innings and number five in the second. England lost the match by an innings and 137 runs. His second and final Test was in July 2006 and also against India U-19s. He scored 0 and 31, both times batting at seven, and conceded 43 runs from 11 overs. He finished the tournament as England's leading wicket-taker, from 5 matches he took 9 wickets at an average of 15.11.
Also between 2005 and 2006, Mullaney played 15 Youth One Day Internationals. In that time, he scored 169 runs at an average of 16.90, with a highest score of 40, and took 10 wicket
Wicket
In the sport of cricket the word wicket has several distinct meanings:-Definitions of wicket:Most of the time, the wicket is one of the two sets of three stumps and two bails at either end of the pitch...
s at an average
Bowling average
Bowling average is a statistic measuring the performance of bowlers in the sport of cricket.A bowler's bowling average is defined as the total number of runs conceded by the bowlers divided by the number of wickets taken by the bowler, so the lower the average the better. It is similar to earned...
of 29.40 and best bowling figures of 3 wickets for 26 runs (3/26). During his time in the team, Mullaney took part in the 2006 U-19 World Cup. He had been dropped from the squad after a tour of Sri Lanka in July 2005, but was selected to play in the World Cup in February 2006 after England had a winless tour of Bangladesh.
Early years with Lancashire
| Mullaney's statistics for Lancashire | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Matches | Runs | Batting average | Wickets | Bowling average | |
| First-class | 4 | 257 | 64.25 | 1 | 84.00 |
| LA | 8 | 36 | 12.00 | 10 | 15.80 |
| T20 | 3 | 5 | 5.00 | 1 | 21.00 |
Mullaney made his first-class
First-class cricket
First-class cricket is a class of cricket that consists of matches of three or more days' scheduled duration, that are between two sides of eleven players and are officially adjudged first-class by virtue of the standard of the competing teams...
, list A, 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...
debuts for Lancashire in 2006. His first team cricket with Lancashire in 2006–2009 was limited, and in that time he played 4 first-class matches, 7 list A matches, and three Twenty20 matches. In April 2007, Mullaney scored his maiden first-class century
Century (cricket)
In the sport of cricket, a batsman reaches his century when he scores 100 or more runs in a single innings. The term is also included in "century partnership" which occurs when two batsmen add 100 runs to the team total when they are batting together. A century is regarded as a landmark score for...
. Playing against Durham University
Durham University Centre of Cricketing Excellence
Durham MCC University is a cricket coaching centre based at Durham University in Durham, County Durham, England and the name under which the university's cricket team plays....
, his innings of 165 not out
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...
(165*) came at quicker than a run a ball and allowed Lancashire to win the match. His first hundred runs came off 92 balls and the next 65 from 26 and included 10 sixes
Boundary (cricket)
Boundary has two distinct meanings in the sport of cricket:# the edge or boundary of the playing field, and# a manner of scoring runs.-Edge of the field:...
. It beat his previous highest score of 44. In the 2007 cricket season, Mullaney played for Northern Cricket Club
Northern Cricket Club
The Northern Cricket Club, located in Crosby on north Merseyside, was founded in 1859.The original clubhouse was in Rawson Road in nearby Seaforth until 1879, when the club moved to Haigh Road in Waterloo Park....
, in the Liverpool and District Cricket Competition
Liverpool and District Cricket Competition
The Liverpool and District Cricket Competition is the top level of competition for recreational club cricket in the Liverpool area and since 2000 has been a designated ECB Premier League, one of two in Lancashire, the other being the Northern League....
, averaging 70 with the bat and taking over 30 wickets. After he spent the winter of 2007/08 playing grade cricket
Grade cricket
Grade cricket is the name of the senior inter-club or district cricket competitions in each of the Australian states. The term may refer to:*Brisbane Grade Cricket *South Australian Grade Cricket League*Sydney Grade Cricket...
for McKinnon
McKinnon, Victoria
McKinnon is a suburb in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 12 km south-east from Melbourne's central business district. Its Local Government Area is the City of Glen Eira...
in the Victorian Turf Cricket Association, Mullaney signed a professional contract with Atherton
Atherton, Greater Manchester
Atherton is a town within the Metropolitan Borough of Wigan, in Greater Manchester, England, historically a part of Lancashire. It is east of Wigan, north-northeast of Leigh, and northwest of Manchester...
Cricket Club in the Bolton Association at the start of the 2008 season. Speaking of his move from Northern to Atherton, Mullaney said "Northern was the turning point in my career, and I have left on really good terms to try and better myself. The league [Atherton play in] will not be quite as good, and the wickets aren't quite as good, but it will be a new challenge" and that "I think getting into the pro-ing side of things is an added pressure – but it is a pressure I am really looking forward to". He set his sights on establishing himself in Lancashire's second team in the 2008 season and then force his way into the first team.
In 2009, Mullaney was a regular in the top order
Batting order (cricket)
In cricket, the batting order is the sequence in which batsmen play through their team's innings, there always being two batsmen taking part at any one time...
of the Lancashire second team which progressed to the final of the Second XI Championship
Second XI Championship
The Second XI Championship is a season-long cricket competition in England that is competed for by the reserve teams of those county cricket clubs that have first-class status...
and the semi-final of the Second XI Trophy. At the end of the season he turned down a two-year contract with the club and signed for Nottinghamshire
Nottinghamshire County Cricket Club
Nottinghamshire 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 Nottinghamshire, and the current county champions. Its limited overs team is called the Nottinghamshire Outlaws...
.