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Mark Ramprakash

Mark Ramprakash
MBE
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Personal information
Full name Mark Ravin Ramprakash
Born (1969-09-05) 5 September 1969 (age 47)
Bushey, Hertfordshire, England
Nickname Ramps, Bloodaxe, The Hips
Height 5 ft 10 in (1.78 m)
Batting style Right-handed
Bowling style Right arm off-spin
Role Batsman
International information
National side
Test debut (cap 549) 6 June 1991 v West Indies
Last Test 3 April 2002 v New Zealand
ODI debut (cap 114) 25 May 1991 v West Indies
Last ODI 13 October 2001 v Zimbabwe
Domestic team information
Years Team
1987–2000 Middlesex
2001–2012 Surrey (squad no. 77)
Career statistics
Competition Test ODI FC LA
Matches 52 18 461 407
Runs scored 2,350 376 35,659 13,273
Batting average 27.32 26.85 53.14 40.22
100s/50s 2/12 0/1 114/147 17/85
Top score 154 51 301* 147*
Balls bowled 895 132 4,177 1,734
Wickets 4 4 34 46
Bowling average 119.25 27.00 64.76 29.43
5 wickets in innings 0 0 1
10 wickets in match 0 n/a
Best bowling 1/2 3/28 3/32 5/38
Catches/stumpings 39/– 8/– 261/– 136/–
Source: CricketArchive, 11 July 2013

Mark Ravin Ramprakash, MBE (born 5 September 1969) is a former English cricketer. A right-handed batsman, he initially made his name playing for Middlesex, and was selected for England aged 21. Despite being among the most gifted and heavily scoring English batsman of his generation at county level, he rarely performed to his full potential during a long but intermittent international career. He became a particularly prolific run scorer when he moved to Surrey in 2001, averaging over 100 runs per innings in two successive seasons (2006 & 2007). He is one of only 25 players in the history of the sport to have scored 100 first-class centuries.

In November 2012, he was announced as the batting coach for the England Lions in India. In January 2013 he was appointed as batting coach for Middlesex, on a two-year contract. In November 2014 he was appointed as England's batting coach.

Mark Ramprakash was born in Bushey, Hertfordshire, and is of Indo-Caribbean and English descent. His father, born in the Caribbean, was Indo-Guyanese and his mother was English. He attended Gayton High School (now Harrow High School), and then Harrow Weald Sixth Form College. His first local club was Bessborough Cricket Club in Headstone Lane where he showed early promise as a fast bowler before concentrating on his batting. He played his first match for Middlesex aged just 17, scoring 63 not out against Yorkshire, and top-scoring with 71 in his second match against Essex at Chelmsford (he was still a sixth-form student at the time). He scored his maiden first-class century at Headingley against Yorkshire in 1989, and captained the England U-19 team. He came to national prominence when, at the age of 18, he won the man-of-the match award in the 1988 NatWest Trophy Final after his innings of 56 helped Middlesex beat Worcestershire.


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