Graeme Fowler
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| Full name | Graeme Fowler | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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20 April 1957 Accrington, Lancashire, England |
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| Nickname | Foxy | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Batting style | Left-handed batsman (LHB) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Bowling style | Right arm medium (RM) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Source: CricInfo, 26 May 1986 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Graeme "Foxy" Fowler (born 20 April 1957, Accrington, Lancashire) is a former English professional cricketer, who played for Lancashire, England, and later for Durham. He appeared in 21 Test matches and 26 ODIs for England, averaging 35.32 in his Test batting career.
The cricket writer Colin Bateman noted: "a risk-taking left-hander, Fowler rarely bored anyone with his batting".
Educated at Accrington Grammar School and Durham University, Fowler made his debut in first-class cricket in 1979. He usually opened the batting for both county and country, and his most successful opening partnership was with Gehan Mendis between 1986 and 1993.
He made his Test debut in 1982, when sixteen England players were banned for three years for participating in the rebel tour of South Africa during the apartheid era. His highest Test score was 201, made in a nine-hour innings in Madras (now Chennai); this was the first double century by an English cricketer in India. Mike Gatting also scored a double century in the same innings: this was the first time that two English batsmen had made double centuries in the same Test innings.
However, he lost his place in the England team when the rebel tourists were reinstated, and he had neck trouble. He was not re-selected in Tests for the remainder of his career.
Against New Zealand at The Oval in 1983, Fowler scored his first Test hundred (105 off 303 balls), as Chris Tavare and he became the first England openers to score a century in the same Test innings for twenty three years. His second Test century came against the West Indies at Lord's in 1984.
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