Norman Gifford

England

Full name Norman Gifford

Born March 30, 1940, Ulverston, Lancashire

Current age 80 years 294 days

Major teams England, Warwickshire, Worcestershire

Batting style Left-hand bat

Bowling style Slow left-arm orthodox

Other Coach

Batting and fielding averages

	Mat	Inns	NO	Runs	HS	Ave	BF	SR	50	4s	6s	Ct
Tests	15	20	9	179	25*	16.27			0	16	0	8
ODIs	2	1	0	0	0	0.00	8	0.00	0	0	0	1
First-class	710	805	263	7048	89	13.00			3			319
List A	397	218	85	1478	38	11.11			0			96

Bowling averages

	Mat	Inns	Balls	Runs	Wkts	BBI	BBM	Ave	Econ	SR	4w	5w	10
Tests	15	21	3084	1026	33	5/55	8/127	31.09	1.99	93.4	2	1	0
ODIs	2	2	120	50	4	4/23	4/23	12.50	2.50	30.0	1	0	0
First-class	710		128412	48731	2068	8/28		23.56	2.27	62.0		93	14
List A	397		17601	11525	443	6/8	6/8	26.01	3.92	39.7	11	5	0

Career statistics

Test debut	England v Australia at Lord's, Jun 18-23, 1964 scorecard
Last Test	England v New Zealand at Lord's, Jun 21-26, 1973 scorecard
Test statistics
ODI debut	Australia v England at Sharjah, Mar 24, 1985 scorecard
Last ODI	England v Pakistan at Sharjah, Mar 26, 1985 scorecard
ODI statistics
First-class span	1960 - 1988
List A span	1963 - 1988

Profile

Norman Gifford came along as a left-arm spinner at an unfortunate time. When he started, Tony Lock's international career still had seven years to run, while Derek Underwood, five years Gifford's junior, was soon to stake an irresistible challenge of his own. Underwood and Gifford were sufficiently dissimilar - Gifford was much slower and more low-slung - for them to play two Tests side by side, on the subcontinent in 1972-73, but Underwood's artistry restricted Gifford, a good-natured apple-cheeked Lancastrian, to 15 Tests, most of them while Ray Illingworth was captain. Gifford captained England in a one-day series in Sharjah in 1985 at the age of 44.
John Thicknesse

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