Jo Angel
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| Personal information | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Batting style | Left-hand bat | |||
| Bowling style | Right-arm fast | |||
| Domestic team information | ||||
| Years | Team | |||
| 1991–2004 | Western Australia | |||
| 2002 | Gloucestershire | |||
| Career statistics | ||||
| Competition | Tests | ODIs | ||
| Matches | 4 | 3 | ||
| Runs scored | 35 | - | ||
| Batting average | 5.83 | - | ||
| 100s/50s | -/- | -/- | ||
| Top score | 11 | - | ||
| Balls bowled | 748 | 162 | ||
| Wickets | 10 | 4 | ||
| Bowling average | 46.29 | 28.25 | ||
| 5 wickets in innings | - | - | ||
| 10 wickets in match | - | n/a | ||
| Best bowling | 3/54 | 2/47 | ||
| Catches/stumpings | 1/- | -/- | ||
| Source: Cricinfo, 12 December 2005 | ||||
Jo Angel (born 22 April 1968 in Mount Lawley, Western Australia) is a former Australian cricketer who played in 4 Tests and 3 ODIs from 1993 to 1995.
Angel was a giant fast bowler from Western Australia. 6' 6" (1.98m) and a big, strapping man, he had an ungainly and lumbering approach to the wicket and hit the deck hard. On the fast WACA Ground, his bounce was a threat and lot of his wickets in the domestic circle came from playing on this pitch.
The positive aspect about his bowling was that he would always try hard to get wickets and would bowl long spells even if the wicket was unresponsive or the weather was hot. He made his Test debut against the West Indies at the WACA in 1993. Prior to the match, he vowed to fight the West Indies fire with fire. But apart from forcing Desmond Haynes to retire hurt after hitting him in the face with a short ball, Angel failed to make much of an impact. In fact, Richie Richardson, after getting his eye in, hit him around the park.
He toured Sri Lanka in 1994 for the Singer Cup one-day tournament with some degree of success where the other Australian pacemen did not perform very well in the heat and slow conditions. While his international career was less than stellar, Angel's domestic performance was impeccable, carrying the Western Australian attack with distinction. He holds the career wickets record for Western Australia and is one of two bowlers who have taken 400 or more wickets for the state with 445. The other is Terry Alderman, with 433 wickets [1].
On 28 July 2000, Angel was awarded the Australian Sports Medal for being "fourth on list of all time greatest wicket takers for Western Australia".[1]
