Mike Denness

England|Top order Batter
Mike Denness
INTL CAREER: 1969 - 1975
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Full Name

Michael Henry Denness

Born

December 01, 1940, Bellshill, Lanarkshire, Scotland

Died

April 19, 2013 (aged 72y 139d)

Nicknames

Haggis

Batting Style

Right hand Bat

Playing Role

Top order Batter

Height

5ft 11in

Education

Ayr Academy

Other

Referee

Few contemporary batsmen were more stylish than Mike Denness at his peak, in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Tallish and slim, well-balanced, immaculately dressed on and off the field, possessed of a fine array of strokes and an excellent cover fieldsman to boot, Denness looked a model cricketer in every way. It was his misfortune that when those qualities won him the England captaincy, after Ray Illingworth's dismissal, he lacked the support of one of the players on whom he was most dependent. Geoff Boycott, who made no secret of how acutely he coveted the captaincy himself, played only the first six of Denness's 19 Tests as captain, which fatally holed England's prospects against Dennis Lillee and Jeff Thomson in Australia in 1974-75. Deposed when Australia won the first Test of 1975 at Edgbaston, Denness took his medicine with typical graciousness. He later became an ICC match referee but, at Port Elizabeth in 2001-02, his decision to sanction six Indian players, including Sachin Tendulkar, caused such a furore that the Indian and South African boards barred Denness from officiating in the next match, at Centurion. The ICC responded by withdrawing Test status from the game. He died in April 2013 after a battle with cancer during his final days as president of Kent.
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Mike Denness Career Stats

Batting & Fielding

FormatMatInnsNORunsHSAveBFSR100s50s4s6sCtSt
Tests28453166718839.69--471922280
ODIs121122646629.3341763.300117210
FC501838652588619533.48--33152--4100
List A232219215393118*27.23--628--940

Bowling

FormatMatInnsBallsRunsWktsBBIBBMAveEconSR4w5w10w
Tests28------------
ODIs12------------
FC501-846221/7-31.004.4242.0-00
List A232-000-----000

Umpire & Referee

FormatMatReferee
Tests1414
ODIs3535
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Photos of Mike Denness

Protestors in Kolkata criticise the judgements of Mike Denness
Protesters in Kolkata burn an effigy of Mike Denness
Protesters in Kolkata burn an effigy of Mike Denness
Mike Denness Portrait 2001
Steve Waugh, Shane Warne and Mike Denness inspect the pitch
Mike Denness after the defeat at Edgbaston - hours later he was sacked as England captain