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Ryan Sidebottom

Ryan Sidebottom
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Personal information
Full name Ryan Jay Sidebottom
Born (1978-01-15) 15 January 1978 (age 39)
Huddersfield, West Yorkshire, England
Nickname Sexual Chocolate, Sid,
Height 6 ft 4 in (1.93 m)
Batting style Left-handed
Bowling style Left-arm fast-medium
Role Bowler
Relations A Sidebottom (father)
International information
National side
Test debut (cap 604) 17 May 2001 v Pakistan
Last Test 14 January 2010 v South Africa
ODI debut (cap 168) 7 October 2001 v Zimbabwe
Last ODI 28 February 2010 v Bangladesh
ODI shirt no. 18 (Previously 78)
Domestic team information
Years Team
1997–2003 Yorkshire
2003–2010 Nottinghamshire
2011– Yorkshire (squad no. 11)
Career statistics
Competition Test ODI FC LA
Matches 22 25 213 186
Runs scored 313 133 2,552 552
Batting average 15.65 13.30 14.02 11.04
100s/50s 0/0 0/0 0/3 0/0
Top score 31 24 61 32
Balls bowled 4,812 1,277 36,614 8,226
Wickets 79 29 706 198
Bowling average 28.24 35.82 24.02 30.97
5 wickets in innings 5 0 28 2
10 wickets in match 1 n/a 4 n/a
Best bowling 7/47 3/19 7/37 6/40
Catches/stumpings 5/– 6/– 61/– 39/–
Source: ESPNcricinfo, 23 March 2016

Ryan Jay Sidebottom (born 15 January 1978) is a former international English cricketer who currently plays domestic cricket for Yorkshire. He is primarily a left-arm fast-medium bowler. Sidebottom played his first Test match in 2001 against Pakistan, but failed to take a wicket and was dropped for six years. In 2007 he was brought back into the side following an injury to Matthew Hoggard and took four wickets in his first innings. He went on to become a prolific bowler for England over the next two years, though injuries saw him lose his place in the Test side in 2009. He retired from international duty on 20 September 2010, after playing 22 Tests for England and winning the 2010 ICC World Twenty20.

He took the 37th Test cricket hat-trick in his 11th match for England against New Zealand, becoming the 11th English player to do so, on 8 March 2008, and on 23 March he took his third five-wicket haul in the same series, breaking the previous record for an Englishman in New Zealand. He is a former pupil of King James's Grammar School, Almondbury, Huddersfield. He is married to Kate and they have two children, a daughter, Indiana Nell, and a son, Darley Jack. His father, Arnie Sidebottom, was also a cricketer, and played one Test match for England in 1985 against Australia, as well as playing professional football.

Sidebottom started playing as a young boy for Kirkburton Cricket Club. He made his debut for his native Yorkshire in 1997. The winner of the NBC Denis Compton Award two years running, (in 1999 and 2000), he finished as the leading domestic English-bowler at the end of 2000, conceding only 12.5 runs for each of his 24 wickets, and capping this with a nomination for Cricketer of the Year by the Cricket Writers' Club. Injury problems took away much of his 2000 season, but, during the winter, Sidebottom toured the West Indies with England A, taking 16 wickets at a bowling average of 16.81. He made his international debut the following summer against Pakistan in place of Matthew Hoggard. He played in two ODIs in October 2001 against Zimbabwe.


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