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Tim Ambrose

England

Full name Timothy Raymond Ambrose

Born December 1, 1982, Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia

Current age 29 years 73 days

Major teams England, Sussex, Warwickshire

Nickname Freak

Batting style Right-hand bat

Fielding position Wicketkeeper

Height 5 ft 7 in

Education Merewether Selective High, NSW

Batting and fielding averages

	Mat	Inns	NO	Runs	HS	Ave	BF	SR	100	50	4s	6s	Ct	St
Tests	11	16	1	447	102	29.80	963	46.41	1	3	55	4	31	0
ODIs	5	5	1	10	6	2.50	34	29.41	0	0	0	0	3	0
T20Is	1	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	1	1
First-class	136	207	18	6277	251*	33.21	12174	51.56	9	39			318	21
List A	120	99	14	2351	135	27.65	3225	72.89	3	8			120	22
Twenty20	55	43	13	800	77	26.66	697	114.77	0	2	61	13	32	17

Bowling averages

	Mat	Inns	Balls	Runs	Wkts	BBI	BBM	Ave	Econ	SR	4w	5w	10
Tests	11	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
ODIs	5	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
T20Is	1	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
First-class	136		6	1	0	-	-	-	1.00	-	0	0	0
List A	120	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Twenty20	55	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-

Career statistics

Test debut	New Zealand v England at Hamilton, Mar 5-9, 2008 scorecard
Last Test	West Indies v England at Bridgetown, Feb 26-Mar 2, 2009 scorecard
Test statistics
ODI debut	England v New Zealand at Chester-le-Street, Jun 15, 2008 scorecard
Last ODI	England v New Zealand at Lord's, Jun 28, 2008 scorecard
ODI statistics
Only T20I	England v New Zealand at Manchester, Jun 13, 2008 scorecard
T20I statistics
First-class debut	2001
Last First-class	Hampshire v Warwickshire at Southampton, Sep 12-15, 2011 scorecard
List A debut	2001
Last List A	Warwickshire v Northamptonshire at Birmingham, Aug 29, 2011 scorecard
Twenty20 debut	Hampshire v Sussex at Southampton, Jun 13, 2003 scorecard
Last Twenty20	Warwickshire v Durham at Birmingham, Jul 11, 2011 scorecard

Recent matches

Bat & Bowl	Team	Opposition	Ground	Match Date	Scorecard
11, 0c/0s, 0c/0s	Warwickshire	v Hampshire	Southampton	12 Sep 2011	First-class
25, 1c/0s, 3c/0s	Warwickshire	v Notts	Birmingham	7 Sep 2011	First-class
2c/0s, 69, 0c/0s	Warwickshire	v Yorkshire	Birmingham	31 Aug 2011	First-class
23, 1c/0s	Warwickshire	v Northants	Birmingham	29 Aug 2011	List A
1c/0s, 66, 2c/0s	Warwickshire	v Yorkshire	Leeds	23 Aug 2011	First-class
1c/0s, 55, 2c/0s, 0	Warwickshire	v Hampshire	Birmingham	18 Aug 2011	First-class
3c/0s, 5	Warwickshire	v Surrey	Birmingham	17 Aug 2011	List A
1c/0s, 11, 0c/0s, 66*	Warwickshire	v Lancashire	Liverpool	1 Aug 2011	First-class
0c/0s	Warwickshire	v Durham	Chester-le-Street	31 Jul 2011	List A
13, 0c/1s	Warwickshire	v Hampshire	Birmingham	26 Jul 2011	List A

Profile

Born in New South Wales, Ambrose started out at Sussex and made a positive impression - especially with his hard-hitting batting. However, with Matt Prior on the books he realised regular first-team cricket, and importantly keeping opportunities, would be limited and he moved to Warwickshire at the start of the 2006 season. He had a stop-start beginning to life at Edgbaston as injury restricted his early-season chances in 2006, but in the second half of the summer he gave plenty of examples of his batting ability and he blossomed in fine style during 2007. He was so prolific there was talk of him being an outside bet for the Test and one-day sides - but his former team-mate, Prior, got the nod. However, Prior's disappointing tour of Sri Lanka led to his axing in early 2008 and Ambrose was called up as his replacement for England's series against New Zealand. He started promisingly, too; his counterattacking 102 in the second Test in Wellington turned England's fortunes around and helped swing the series their way. Off the pitch, he is a useful guitarist and nicknamed 'freak' due to everything apparently coming naturally to him.
Andrew McGlashan April 2008