Ashley Mallett

Australia

Full name Ashley Alexander Mallett

Born July 13, 1945, Chatswood, Sydney, New South Wales

Current age 72 years 285 days

Major teams Australia, South Australia

Also known as Rowdy

Batting style Right-hand bat

Bowling style Right-arm offbreak

Explore Ashley Mallett's performance

Batting and fielding averages

	Mat	Inns	NO	Runs	HS	Ave	BF	SR	50	4s	6s	Ct
Tests	38	50	13	430	43*	11.62			0		0	30
ODIs	9	3	1	14	8	7.00	36	38.88	0	1	0	4
First-class	183	230	59	2326	92	13.60			2			105
List A	29	13	5	127	24*	15.87			0			10

Bowling averages

	Mat	Inns	Balls	Runs	Wkts	BBI	BBM	Ave	Econ	SR	4w	5w	10
Tests	38	71	9990	3940	132	8/59	10/144	29.84	2.36	75.6	5	6	1
ODIs	9	9	502	341	11	3/34	3/34	31.00	4.07	45.6	0	0	0
First-class	183		39673	18208	693	8/59		26.27	2.75	57.2		33	5
List A	29		1603	1054	41	3/34	3/34	25.70	3.94	39.0	0	0	0

Career statistics

Test debut	England v Australia at The Oval, Aug 22-27, 1968 scorecard
Last Test	England v Australia at Lord's, Aug 28-Sep 2, 1980 scorecard
Test statistics
ODI debut	Australia v England at Melbourne, Jan 5, 1971 scorecard
Last ODI	Australia v West Indies at Adelaide, Dec 20, 1975 scorecard
ODI statistics
First-class span	1967/68 - 1980/81
List A span	1970/71 - 1980/81

Profile

Quiet, gangling, short-sighted, Ashley Mallett looked like a book-keeper at a bikers' convention in the Australian XIs of the 1970s, but his teasing finger-spin and superlative gully fielding were an important element of their success. He moved from his native Perth to Adelaide in 1967 to partake of the wisdom of Clarrie Grimmett, made the first of three tours of England the following year, then found Indian conditions to his liking. No finger-spinner has done better in Australia than his Test-best 8 for 59 against Pakistan at Adelaide in December 1972. A journalist by trade, he wrote two volumes of reminiscences, and has published biographies of Victor Trumper and his paterfamilias Grimmett.
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