Graham Onions

Personal information

Full name

Graham Onions

Born

9 September 1982 (age 34)
Gateshead, England

Nickname

Bunny

Height

6 ft 2 in (1.88 m)

Batting style

Right handed

Bowling style

Right arm fast-medium

Role

Bowler

International information

National side

England

Test debut (cap 644)

6 May 2009 v West Indies

Last Test

7 June 2012 v West Indies

ODI debut (cap 212)

20 September 2009 v Australia

Last ODI

2 October 2009 v Australia

Domestic team information

Years

Team

2003–present

Durham (squad no. 9)

2003

Durham Cricket Board

2007–2016

MCC

2013

Dolphins

Career statistics

Competition	Test	ODI	FC	LA
Matches	9	4	158	87
Runs scored	30	1	1,758	130
Batting average	10.00	1.00	14.29	5.90
100s/50s	0/0	0/0	0/1	0/0
Top score	17*	1	65	19
Balls bowled	1,606	204	27,092	3,616
Wickets	32	4	574	99
Bowling average	29.90	46.25	26.73	31.04
5 wickets in innings	1	0	24	0
10 wickets in match	0	n/a	3	n/a
Best bowling	5/38	2/58	9/67	4/45
Catches/stumpings	0/–	1/–	31/–	13/–

Source: CricketArchive, 3 September 2016

Graham Onions (born 9 September 1982) is an English cricketer. He plays for Durham and England as a right arm fast-medium bowler and a right-hand tail-end batsman. After a successful start to the 2009 cricket season, Onions was selected to face the West Indies in Test cricket, and following success in the series, was retained for the 2009 Ashes series. In April 2010 Wisden Cricketers' Almanack named him as one of its five cricketers of the year for 2009. A back injury in March 2010 prevented Onions from playing cricket until 2011. He returned to competitive cricket that season, taking 50 wickets in the County Championship, and towards the end of the year was called up to England's Test squad.

Graham was born on 9 September 1982 to Richard and Maureen Onions. He has an older sister Christine. Onions attended St Thomas More Catholic School in Blaydon, and at Gateshead leisure centre he took the opportunity to try a variety of sports. He was adept at badminton and was selected for the England team at under-15 level. From playing his early cricket on the streets, Onions became part of Gateshead Fell Cricket Club.

After being spotted by Geoff Cook, Durham's coach, Onions made his second XI debut for the club at the age of 18. He was offered a contract with the club and opted to become a professional cricketer rather than take a sports science choice at university, which was his other option. Onions started in the team as the fourth bowler. Looking back on his early career, he felt that he tried too hard early on. On one occasion he recalled how "I remember being thrown the ball at an important stage of a game at Scarborough, and Phil Jaques hit me for four successive fours. I was thinking 'I'm not sure I can do this.' But Dale Benkenstein was a huge influence as captain, and you have to learn from all those experiences. Otherwise I could not have done what I did in my first season of Test cricket. I often went for 15 to 20 runs in my first three overs, but always came back strongly." In 2006, Onions regularly opened the bowling for Durham with Ottis Gibson.

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