Angus Fraser

Angus Fraser

Personal information
Full name	Angus Robert Charles Fraser
Born	8 August 1965 (1965-08-08) Billinge Higher End, Wigan, Lancashire, England
Nickname	Gus, Gnat
Height	6 ft 6 in (1.98 m)
Batting style	Right-handed
Bowling style	Right arm fast-medium
Role	Bowler, commentator
Relations	Alastair Fraser (brother)
International information
National side	England
Test debut (cap 537)	6 July 1989 v Australia
Last Test	26 December 1998 v Australia
ODI debut (cap 103)	15 October 1989 v Sri Lanka
Last ODI	29 May 1999 v India
Domestic team information
Years	Team
1984–2002	Middlesex
Career statistics
Competition	Test	ODI	FC	LA
Matches	46	42	290	336
Runs scored	388	141	2934	865
Batting average	7.46	12.81	11.19	11.68
100s/50s	–/–	–/–	–/2	–/–
Top score	32	38*	92	38*
Balls bowled	10876	2392	56281	17112
Wickets	177	47	886	392
Bowling average	27.32	30.04	27.40	26.49
5 wickets in innings	13	–	36	1
10 wickets in match	2	–	5	–
Best bowling	8/53	4/22	8/53	5/32
Catches/stumpings	9/–	5/–	54/–	56/–
Source: Cricinfo, 11 April 2008

Angus Robert Charles Fraser (born 8 August 1965, Billinge Higher End, Wigan, Lancashire, England) is the current Managing Director of Cricket of Middlesex County Cricket Club, and a former English cricketer and journalist.

Fraser played in forty six Test matches and forty two One Day Internationals for England. Cricket commentator Colin Bateman commented that Fraser was "a reliable, intelligent and hard-working bowler".

Life and career

Fraser was educated at the Gayton High School in Harrow, Middlesex. Perhaps his finest hour came in the Barbados Test match of the 1993/94 West Indies tour, when Fraser took 8-75 in the first innings to help set up a famous victory, West Indies' first defeat at Bridgetown for more than half a century. His career-best first-class cricket figures, 8-53, were also taken in a Test against the same opposition, this time at Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago in 1997/98. Despite taking eight wickets in an innings, he did not win the Man of the Match award, which went to Carl Hooper from the winning West Indies side.

His ODI high score of 38 not out, scored late in the innings at number 10 and including a massive six off Steve Waugh, 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 Croft to save the third Test at Old Trafford against South Africa in 1998. Throughout his career he used a bat nicknamed the "Gussy Hitter", the design for the blade was put together by his mother.

Despite his Lancashire birthplace, Fraser played all of his county cricket for Middlesex, in a first-class career running from 1984 to 2002, and served as the county captain from 2001 until his retirement in 2002. He served as the cricket correspondent of The Independent newspaper (2002–2009), until his appointment to the newly created role of Managing Director of Cricket by Middlesex in January 2009. He is also a regular contributor to the BBC's Test Match Special.

In the 1996 edition of Wisden, he was one of the Wisden Cricketers of the Year

He currently now resides in Pinner with his wife and two children, Alexander and Bethan. In 2008, Fraser in his first managerial role secured the U15 Middlesex Schools Association County Cup with The John Lyon School, with his son playing in the squad. He bowled against Sachin Tendulkar for his first century.

External links

• Cricinfo page on Angus Fraser

Sporting positions
Preceded by Justin Langer	Middlesex County Cricket Captain 2001–2002	Succeeded by Andrew Strauss