Full Name

Leonard Stephen Pascoe

Born

February 13, 1950, Bridgetown North, Western Australia

Age

74y 35d

Batting Style

Right hand Bat

Bowling Style

Right arm Fast

Playing Role

Bowler

Other

Coach

Dark and swarthy, Len Pascoe was the son of Yugoslavian immigrants (his original surname was Durtanovich) who would have won more than 14 Test caps had he not defected to World Series Cricket just as he was making his mark in Australia. A fast bowler with little subtlety but heaps of aggression (he regularly topped 90mph) he took 41 wickets at 21.78 on the 1977 tour of England - including 13 in three Tests - and in the hostile environment of WSC he thrived. He emerged as a genuine Test fast man, taking 5 for 59 (his only five-for) in the first innings of the 1980 Centenary Test and followed up with good home series against new Zealand (12 wickets) and India (16) in 1980-81. But he was increasingly troubled by a knee injury, and he opted to miss the 1981 tour of England to try to get it sorted. He returned for one Test against West Indies in 1981-82 but was not as effective as he had been although he did take four wickets. On retiring he had a spell coaching New South Wales and subsequently ran Len Pascoe Sports Entertainment. Pascoe, who once famously noted that "a tiger never changes its spots", was also a schoolmate of Jeff Thomson at Punchbowl Boys High and the Bankstown Club: imagine coming up against those two in a school game.
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Len Pascoe Career Stats

Bowling

FormatMatInnsBallsRunsWktsBBIBBMAveEconSR4w5w10w
Tests142734031668645/596/9626.062.9453.1410
ODIs292815681066535/305/3020.114.0729.5410
FC80-1546079133098/41-25.603.0750.0-122
List A41-21591416695/285/2820.523.9331.2510

Batting & Fielding

FormatMatInnsNORunsHSAveBFSR100s50s4s6sCtSt
Tests1419910630*10.6026340.300012020
ODIs291173915*9.7510238.23002060
FC80812550251*8.96--01--230
List A411485015*8.33--00--60
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Debut/Last Matches of Len Pascoe

Recent Matches of Len Pascoe

MatchBatBowlDateGroundFormat
NSW vs West Aust11/9424-Feb-1984SydneyFC
NSW vs South Aust--2/7617-Feb-1984AdelaideFC
NSW vs Victoria--2/43 & 5/11527-Jan-1984MelbourneFC
NSW vs Tasmania231/7813-Jan-1984DevonportFC
NSW vs Queensland4 & 25/53 & 1/5906-Jan-1984BrisbaneFC

Photos of Len Pascoe

Len Pascoe and Barry Richards at a re-enactment of the first ball bowled under lights
Len Pascoe and Barry Richards at a re-enactment of the first ball bowled under lights
Australian players shelter from the riot at Georgetown
The Australians look on after losing the WSC final to the World XI
Len Pascoe
The World Series Cricket Australia team at St Kilda Football ground in Melbourne, December 1977