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His former Warwickshire team mate, [[Jack Bannister]], stated "Dennis was always tinkering with his game, he was a bigger perfectionist than [[Colin Cowdrey]]".<ref name="Cap"/>
His former Warwickshire team mate, [[Jack Bannister]], stated "Dennis was always tinkering with his game, he was a bigger perfectionist than [[Colin Cowdrey]]".<ref name="Cap"/>


Amiss was also a handy One Day International batsman scoring 859 runs, including four centuries and one half-century, with a top score of 137 against India which is still England's highest individual score in the [[Cricket World Cup]]. He has the distinction of scoring the first ever One Day International century (103 in only the second One Day International in 1972).<ref name="Beard">{{cite book |title=Ask Bearders |last=Frindall |first=Bill |authorlink=Bill Frindall |coauthors= |year=2009 |publisher=[[BBC Books]]|location= |isbn=978-1-84607-880-4 |page=|pages=153–154 |url= |accessdate=13 June 2011}}</ref> He ended with an ODI batting average of 47.72, which excepting those players to have played fewer than five times, remains the highest of any England batsman who has completed his career. The still-active [[Kevin Pietersen]] averaged over 50 throughout the first 60 matches of his ODI career up until September 2007, but that figure had fallen to under 41 by June 2011.
Amiss was also a handy One Day International batsman scoring 859 runs, including four centuries and one half-century, with a top score of 137 against India which is still England's second highest individual score in the [[Cricket World Cup]], behind the 158 scored by [[Andrew Strauss]] in 2011. <ref>http://stats.espncricinfo.com/ci/engine/records/batting/most_runs_innings.html?id=12;type=trophy</ref> He has the distinction of scoring the first ever One Day International century (103 in only the second One Day International in 1972).<ref name="Beard">{{cite book |title=Ask Bearders |last=Frindall |first=Bill |authorlink=Bill Frindall |coauthors= |year=2009 |publisher=[[BBC Books]]|location= |isbn=978-1-84607-880-4 |page=|pages=153–154 |url= |accessdate=13 June 2011}}</ref> He ended with an ODI batting average of 47.72, which excepting those players to have played fewer than five times, remains the highest of any England batsman who has completed his career. The still-active [[Kevin Pietersen]] averaged over 50 throughout the first 60 matches of his ODI career up until September 2007, but that figure had fallen to under 41 by June 2011.


He was selected as one of the five [[Wisden Cricketers of the Year]] in 1975.
He was selected as one of the five [[Wisden Cricketers of the Year]] in 1975.

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Dennis Amiss
Personal information
Full name
Dennis Leslie Amiss
Born (1943-04-07) 7 April 1943 (age 81)
Harborne, Birmingham, England, United Kingdom
NicknameSacker
Height5 ft 11 in (1.80 m)
BattingRight-handed
BowlingLeft arm medium
Slow left arm orthodox
International information
National side
Test debut (cap 434)18 August 1966 v West Indies
Last Test12 July 1977 v Australia
ODI debut (cap 12)24 August 1972 v Australia
Last ODI6 June 1977 v Australia
Domestic team information
YearsTeam
1960–1987Warwickshire
Career statistics
Competition Test ODI FC LA
Matches 50 18 658 404
Runs scored 3,612 859 43,423 12,519
Batting average 46.30 47.72 42.86 35.06
100s/50s 11/11 4/1 102/212 15/77
Top score 262* 137 262* 137
Balls bowled 0 0 1,153 129
Wickets – – 18 2
Bowling average – – 39.88 62.50
5 wickets in innings – – 0 –
10 wickets in match – n/a 0 n/a
Best bowling – – 3/21 1/15
Catches/stumpings 24/– 2/– 417/– 105/–
Source: Cricinfo, 28 October 2009

Dennis Leslie Amiss MBE (born 7 April 1943, Harborne, Birmingham, Warwickshire)[1] was an English cricketer and cricket administrator.

Amiss suffered a serious back injury whilst playing soccer in his teenage years, which entailed him starting each day of his sporting life undergoing stretching routines to loosen up.[1]

He played cricket for both Warwickshire County Cricket Club and England. A right-handed batsman, Amiss was a brilliant stroke maker particularly through extra cover and midwicket - his two favourite areas to score runs. He was an accomplished batsman in all forms of the game. He averaged 42.86 in first-class, 35.06 in List-A, 46.30 in Tests and 47.72 in One Day Internationals. In first-class cricket he scored 102 centuries, and his England record amassed over 50 Tests ranks him with the best England has produced.[1]

After retiring as a player in 1987, he served Warwickshire as Chairman of the Cricket Committee, and he followed David Heath as Chief Executive from 1994 until 2005. In 1992 he was selected as an England selector.[1] He was awarded an honorary doctorate by the University of Birmingham in the summer of 2007.

England career

Amiss made his Test debut for England in the fifth Test of the 1966 series with West Indies, and he proved an accomplished Test match batsman. He was one of the first batsman to use a protective helmet.[1] In scoring 3,612 Test runs, Amiss made eleven half-centuries and eleven centuries, including two double centuries against the West Indies. His highest Test match score, also his highest first-class score, was 262 not out against the West Indies in the 1973-74 Kingston Test, an innings that saved the Test match for England after they conceded a first innings lead of 230. The next highest score in England's innings was 38. After being dropped by England in 1975, he made a successful return against the West Indies at The Oval in the final Test of 1976, although his 203 in the first innings did not prevent England losing the match. Amiss's last Test came in 1977 when he was left out to make way for Geoff Boycott's return from self imposed exile.

His former Warwickshire team mate, Jack Bannister, stated "Dennis was always tinkering with his game, he was a bigger perfectionist than Colin Cowdrey".[1]

Amiss was also a handy One Day International batsman scoring 859 runs, including four centuries and one half-century, with a top score of 137 against India which is still England's second highest individual score in the Cricket World Cup, behind the 158 scored by Andrew Strauss in 2011. [2] He has the distinction of scoring the first ever One Day International century (103 in only the second One Day International in 1972).[3] He ended with an ODI batting average of 47.72, which excepting those players to have played fewer than five times, remains the highest of any England batsman who has completed his career. The still-active Kevin Pietersen averaged over 50 throughout the first 60 matches of his ODI career up until September 2007, but that figure had fallen to under 41 by June 2011.

He was selected as one of the five Wisden Cricketers of the Year in 1975.

A graph of Dennis Amiss's Test performances.

References

  1. ^ a b c d e f Bateman, Colin (1993). If The Cap Fits. Tony Williams Publications. p. 109. ISBN 1-869833-21-X. {{cite book}}: |access-date= requires |url= (help); Cite has empty unknown parameter: |coauthors= (help); More than one of |pages= and |page= specified (help)
  2. ^ http://stats.espncricinfo.com/ci/engine/records/batting/most_runs_innings.html?id=12;type=trophy
  3. ^ Frindall, Bill (2009). Ask Bearders. BBC Books. pp. 153–154. ISBN 978-1-84607-880-4. {{cite book}}: |access-date= requires |url= (help); Cite has empty unknown parameter: |coauthors= (help)

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