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Stuart MacGill

Stuart MacGill
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Personal information
Full name Stuart Charles Glyndwr MacGill
Born (1971-02-26) 26 February 1971 (age 46)
Mount Lawley, Perth, Australia
Nickname Sweet Prince, Magilla Gorilla, SCG
Height 1.83 m (6 ft 0 in)
Batting style Right-handed
Bowling style Right-arm leg spin
Role Bowler
Relations CWT MacGill (grandfather)
TMD MacGill (father)
International information
National side
Test debut (cap 374) 30 January 1998 v South Africa
Last Test 30 May 2008 v West Indies
ODI debut (cap 141) 19 January 2000 v Pakistan
Last ODI 26 January 2000 v India
ODI shirt no. 45
Domestic team information
Years Team
1994 Western Australia
1996–2008 New South Wales
1997 Somerset
1997–98 Devon
2002–04 Nottinghamshire
2011 Sydney Sixers
Career statistics
Competition Test ODI FC LA
Matches 44 3 184 107
Runs scored 349 1 1,536 171
Batting average 9.69 1.00 9.90 7.77
100s/50s 0/0 0/0 0/2 0/0
Top score 43 1 56* 26
Balls bowled 11,237 180 41,418 5,228
Wickets 208 6 774 193
Bowling average 29.02 17.50 30.48 22.52
5 wickets in innings 12 0 43 4
10 wickets in match 2 n/a 6 n/a
Best bowling 8/108 4/19 8/108 5/40
Catches/stumpings 16/– 2/– 76/– 22/–
Source: CricketArchive, 20 September 2008

Stuart Charles Glyndwr MacGill (born 25 February 1971) is a former right-arm leg spin bowler of the Australian cricket team, with a domestic career at Western Australia, New South Wales, Nottinghamshire, Devon and Somerset. He has been credited with having the best strike rate of any modern leg-spin bowler, but he did not have a regular place in the Australian Test team due to the dominance of Shane Warne in the position of sole spinner. His bowling was slightly slower through the air than Warne's, but he was a prodigious turner of the ball.

He was brought back in 2007 after the retirement of Warne, as spinner for the first Test against the Sri Lankan cricket team. He announced his retirement from international cricket during the second Test of Australia's 2008 tour of the West Indies. Moving into commentary, MacGill co-hosted the 2009 Ashes series on SBS with Damien Martyn and Greg Matthews. MacGill was a radio co-host on the Triple M Sydney breakfast program "The Grill Team", 2009–2010.

MacGill was born in the Perth suburb of Mount Lawley and began his first-class career in the 1993/94 season playing for Western Australia. Both his father, Terry MacGill, and his grandfather, Charlie MacGill, had previously played cricket for Western Australia. He was an AIS Australian Cricket Academy scholarship holder in 1990–1991. He managed just one game, against New South Wales at the SCG but did not take a wicket and did not play again for over two years. When he returned in 1996/97 it was for New South Wales and he took 6 wickets in the match, the first being Darren Berry. He finished the season with 16 wickets at 37.00.


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