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Chris Read

Chris Read
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Personal information
Full name Christopher Mark Wells Read
Born (1978-08-10) 10 August 1978 (age 38)
Paignton, England
Nickname Reados
Height 5 ft 8 in (1.73 m)
Batting style Right-hand bat
Bowling style Right arm medium
Role Wicket-keeper
International information
National side
Test debut (cap 595) 1 July 1999 v New Zealand
Last Test 5 January 2007 v Australia
ODI debut (cap 155) 23 January 2000 v South Africa
Last ODI 28 October 2006 v West Indies
Domestic team information
Years Team
1995–1997 Devon
1997 Gloucestershire
1998–present Nottinghamshire (squad no. 7)
Career statistics
Competition Test ODI FC LA
Matches 15 36 319 317
Runs scored 360 300 15,051 5,297
Batting average 18.94 17.64 37.53 29.42
100s/50s 0/1 0/0 24/84 2/21
Top score 55 30* 240 135
Balls bowled 96
Wickets 0
Bowling average
5 wickets in innings
10 wickets in match n/a n/a
Best bowling
Catches/stumpings 48/6 41/2 950/50 300/73
Source: CricketArchive, 12 September 2013

Christopher Mark Wells Read (born 10 August 1978) is an English cricketer, a wicket-keeper who is the captain of Nottinghamshire County Cricket Club. He has been the first-choice England wicket-keeper on numerous occasions during his career, but has never been able to hold on to the role long term.

Read played for Devon in a NatWest Trophy match at the age of 16, and in 1997 made a single AXA Life League appearance for Gloucestershire, claiming an NBC Denis Compton Award that year. After an England A tour to Kenya and Sri Lanka in the winter - making his first-class debut in Nairobi - Read was picked up by Nottinghamshire for the 1998 season. By June he had established himself in the side and he claimed 42 dismissals that summer as well as making 401 runs.

He toured Zimbabwe and South Africa with the A team the following winter, and in 1999 his maiden first-class century, a well-timed 160 against Warwickshire, brought him selection for the first Test against New Zealand at Edgbaston. Still not 21, Read made a good impression: although he failed with the bat, he claimed eight dismissals, six in the second innings alone. He was retained for Lord's, but suffered a very public embarrassment when he was bowled for zero, ducking what he thought was a beamer from Chris Cairns but was in fact a well-disguised slower ball. 37 in the second innings was followed by another duck at Old Trafford, and he was dropped, though he did play in the 1999/2000 One Day International series in South Africa.


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