Mike Selvey

Personal information

Full name

Michael Walter William Selvey

Born

25 April 1948 (age 68)
Chiswick, Middlesex, England

Batting style

Right-hand bat

Bowling style

Right-arm fast-medium

International information

National side

English

Career statistics

Competition	Tests	First-class
Matches	3	278
Runs scored	15	2405
Batting average	7.50	12.65
100s/50s	–/–	–/4
Top score	5*	67
Balls bowled	492	45474
Wickets	6	772
Bowling average	57.16	26.66
5 wickets in innings	–	38
10 wickets in match	–	4
Best bowling	4/41	7/20
Catches/stumpings	1/–	79/–

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Mike Selvey (Michael Walter William Selvey, born 25 April 1948, Chiswick, Middlesex, England) is an English former Test and county cricketer, and now a cricket writer and commentator. Selvey played in three Tests for England in 1976 and 1977. His county cricket commitments included service to Surrey, Middlesex and Glamorgan.

Selvey played for Surrey and Cambridge University before joining Middlesex in 1972, where he spent the majority of his playing career.

Selvey made a dramatic debut in Test cricket against the West Indies at Old Trafford in 1976, when he opened the bowling and took the wickets of Roy Fredericks, Viv Richards and Alvin Kallicharran for only six runs in his first 20 balls. He took 4 for 41 in that innings, and 6 for 152 in the match, but still ended on the losing side as England were beaten by 425 runs.

He only played two more Tests and failed to take a single wicket in either of them, in part due to Alan Knott dropping a routine chance from Roy Fredericks in his second test at the Oval in the same year; the West Indies went on to make 687 as England were blunted by Viv Richards' 291.

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