England
| Captain: | Andrew Strauss |  |
| Coach: | Andy Flower | |
| Team Manager: | Phil Neale | |
| ODI/Test ranking: | 3rd (Test), 5th (ODI) | |
| First Test match: | vs Australia at Melbourne Cricket Ground, Melbourne, 15 March 1877 | |
| Last Test match: | vs Australia at the SCG, Sydney, Australia, 3 Jan 2011 |
England Squad
| Player Name | Age | Batting Style | Bowling Style | Shirt |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Andrew Strauss (Captain) | 33 | Left-handed bat | Left-arm medium | 14 |
| James Anderson | 28 | Left-handed bat | Right-arm fast-medium | 9 |
| Ian Bell | 28 | Right-handed bat | Right-arm medium | 7 |
| Eoin Morgan | 24 | Left-handed bat | Right-arm medium | 16 |
| Tim Bresnan | 25 | Right-handed bat | Right-arm fast-medium | 20 |
| Stuart Broad | 24 | Left-handed bat | Right-arm fast-medium | 8 |
| Paul Collingwood | 34 | Right-handed bat | Right-arm medium | 5 |
| Kevin Pietersen | 30 | Right-handed bat | Right-arm off-break | 24 |
| Matt Prior | 28 | Right-handed bat | 23 | |
| Ajmal Shahzad | 25 | Right-handed bat | Right-arm fast-medium | 13 |
| Graeme Swann | 31 | Right-handed bat | Right-arm off-break | 66 |
| James Tredwell | 28 | Left-handed bat | Right-arm off-break | 53 |
| Jonathan Trott | 29 | Right-handed bat | Right-arm medium | 4 |
| Luke Wright | 25 | Right-handed bat | Right-arm medium-fast | 6 |
| Michael Yardy | 30 | Left-handed bat | Slow left-arm orthodox | 40 |
Player details
| Full name: | Andrew John Strauss |
| Nickname: | Straussy, Levi, Mareman, Muppet |
| Born: | March 2, 1977, Johannesburg, Transvaal, South Africa |
| Current age: | 33 years of age |
| Height: | 5 ft 11 in |
| Team role: | Opening batsman |
| Batting style: | Left-hand bat |
| Bowling style: | Left-arm medium |
| Played for: | England, Middlesex, Northern Districts |
Player profile
A compact left-hander with a preference for pummelling the ball square off the back foot with a crunching cut, Andrew Strauss has worked out a superb technique for Test cricket. He put early problems against Shane Warne behind him to make two hundreds in the epic 2005 Ashes series, and added another big one (161) in 2009 to set up England's first victory over the old enemy at Lord's since 1934. Mike Atherton and Alec Stewart, by contrast, only ever managed one century apiece against Australia. Calm and urbane, Strauss put the disappointment of ...
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Player details
| Full name: | James Michael Anderson |
| Nickname: | Jimmy |
| Born: | July 30, 1982, Burnley, Lancashire |
| Current age: | 28 years of age |
| Height: | 6 ft 2 in |
| Team role: | Bowler |
| Batting style: | Left-hand bat |
| Bowling style: | Right-arm fast-medium |
| Played for: | England, Auckland, Lancashire, Lancashire Cricket Board |
Player profile
For the first six years of James Anderson's international career, the best way to sum up his bowling was to paraphrase Mother Goose: when he's good, he's very, very good - and when he's bad he's horrid. Well, fairly horrid, anyway, because when the force was with him, he was capable of irresistible spells, seemingly able to swing the ball round corners at an impressive speed. In 2010 however, Anderson came of age in a staggeringly comprehensive fashion. No longer content with being unplayable when the mood caught him, he took the decision to shelve ...
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Player details
| Full name: | Ian Ronald Bell |
| Nickname: | Belly |
| Born: | April 11, 1982, Walsgrave, Coventry, Warwickshire |
| Current age: | 28 years of age |
| Height: | 5 ft 10 in |
| Team role: | Top-order batsman |
| Batting style: | Right-hand bat |
| Bowling style: | Right-arm medium |
| Played for: | England, England Lions, Marylebone Cricket Club, Warwickshire, Warwickshire Cricket Board |
Player profile
Once described by Dayle Hadlee as the best 16-year old he had ever seen, Ian Bell had been earmarked for greatness long before he was drafted onto the England tour of New Zealand in 2001-02, as cover for the injured Mark Butcher. Technically sound, Bell is a top-order batsman very much in the mould of Michael Atherton, who was burdened with similar expectations when he made his England debut a generation ago. Unlike Atherton, who invariably produced his best when his back was firmly against the wall, Bell's most fluent efforts tended to come about ...
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Player details
| Full name: | Eoin Joseph Gerard Morgan |
| Nickname: | Moggie |
| Born: | September 10, 1986, Dublin |
| Current age: | 24 years of age |
| Height: | 5 ft 9 in |
| Team role: | Bowler |
| Batting style: | Left-hand bat |
| Bowling style: | Right-arm medium |
| Played for: | England, Ireland, Bangalore Royal Challengers, England A, Ireland A, Ireland Under-19s, Middlesex, Middlesex 2nd XI, Sir Paul Getty's XI |
Player profile
Eoin Morgan is an Irish-born Englishman with a reputation for inventive and audacious strokeplay. At the age of 23, he shot to prominence on the back of two match-winning innings against South Africa. First was a 34-ball 67 in the Champions Trophy in September 2009 which he followed two months later with an unbeaten 45-ball 85 in the opening Twenty20 of England's tour of South Africa. His bold approach and crisp hitting was reminiscent of the arrival of another English import, Kevin Pietersen, in 2005. With a blend of nous and power, Morgan looks a ...
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Player details
| Full name: | Timothy Thomas Bresnan |
| Nickname: | Brezy Lad, Brez |
| Born: | February 28, 1985, Pontefract, Yorkshire |
| Current age: | 25 years of age |
| Height: | 6 ft 0 in |
| Team role: | Allrounder |
| Batting style: | Right-hand bat |
| Bowling style: | Right-arm medium-fast |
| Played for: | ngland, England Lions, England Under-19s, Marylebone Cricket Club, Yorkshire |
Player profile
A powerfully built allrounder, Tim Bresnan had been tipped for higher honours since he became the youngest player in 20 years to represent Yorkshire when he debuted in 2001. It was nearly a decade later that he really announced his arrival in the big-time, however, with a phenomenal performance in the fourth Test against Australia in Melbourne in December 2010. Called into the side as a replacement for Steven Finn, and with a remit to keep the runs down, he starred with a performance of skill, pace and unrelenting accuracy. First, he played ...
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Player details
| Full name: | Stuart Christopher John Broad |
| Nickname: | Broady |
| Born: | June 24, 1986, Nottingham |
| Current age: | 24 years of age |
| Height: | 6 ft 5 in |
| Team role: | Bowler |
| Batting style: | Left-hand bat |
| Bowling style: | Right-arm fast-medium |
| Played for: | England, Leicestershire, Nottinghamshire |
Player profile
With his blond hair and baby-faced good looks, Stuart Broad was already looking like becoming the Next Big Thing of English cricket when he pushed his career into overdrive in a sensational spell of bowling in the fifth and decisive Ashes Test at The Oval in 2009. With the series in the balance, Broad claimed figures of 5 for 37 in 12 overs, including 4 for 8 in 21 balls, and after that there was no coming back for Australia. In his early cricketing career, Broad had been shaping up to be an opening bat just like his dad Chris, until he suddenly shot up. Within 18 months he had transformed himself into a medium-fast bowler and was playing for England Under-19 and ...
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Player details
| Full name: | Paul David Collingwood |
| Nickname: | Colly |
| Born: | May 26, 1976, Shotley Bridge, Co Durham |
| Current age: | 34 years of age |
| Height: | 5 ft 11 in |
| Team role: | Allrounder |
| Batting style: | Right-hand bat |
| Bowling style: | Right-arm medium |
| Played for: | England, Delhi Daredevils, Durham |
Player profile
A natural athlete with a happy-go-lucky temperament, Paul Collingwood became the first England captain to ever deliver a global tournament when England beat Australia to win the 2010 World Twenty20. It was reward for nine years of uncomplaining professionalism, in which time he fought his way through a melee of seemingly more talented opponents to make himself indispensable in both forms of the game. Collingwood's greatest asset is ability to contribute to the team in several aspects. As a batsman, he stands still at the crease, plays the ball ...
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Player details
| Full name: | Kevin Peter Pietersen |
| Nickname: | KP, Kelves, Kapes, Kev |
| Born: | June 27, 1980, Pietermaritzburg, Natal |
| Current age: | 30 years of age |
| Height: | 6 ft 4 in |
| Team role: | Top-order batsman |
| Batting style: | Right-hand bat |
| Bowling style: | Right-arm offbreak |
| Played for: | England, Dolphins, Hampshire, ICC World XI, KwaZulu-Natal, Natal, Nottinghamshire, Royal Challengers Bangalore, Surrey |
Player profile
He's tall, he's loud, he's brash ... but "KP" is also a superb batsman, capable of annexing many of England's Test records before he's done. He reached 1000 one-day runs in just 21 matches - equalling Viv Richards' record - while he made more runs in his first 25 Tests than anyone else except Don Bradman. He's strong on the drive, with a crunching pull and hook, while his signature shot is the "flamingo" - a wristy pull-drive played with back foot balletically off the ground. There's also the switch-hit reverse sweep, which needed a ruling on its ...
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Player details
| Full name: | Matthew James Prior |
| Nickname: | None |
| Born: | February 26, 1982, Johannesburg, Transvaal, South Africa |
| Current age: | 28 years of age |
| Height: | 5 ft 11 in |
| Team role: | Wicketkeeper batsman |
| Batting style: | Right-hand bat |
| Bowling style: | Not a bowler |
| Played for: | England, England A, England Lions, Sussex, Sussex Cricket Board, Victoria |
Player profile
Matthew Prior moved to England from South Africa and represented England at all ages, up to and including the Under-19 squad, making his Sussex debut in 2001. An aggressive batsman whose wicketkeeping development was slightly hampered by having to share county duties with Tim Ambrose, he toured India with the England A side in 2003-04. He was selected to tour Zimbabwe as part of England's one-day squad in November 2004 and played in just one match, striking 35. He rejoined the A team for their series against United Arab Emirates and, after an ...
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Player details
| Full name: | Ajmal Shahzad |
| Nickname: | Ajy |
| Born: | July 27, 1985, Huddersfield, Yorkshire |
| Current age: | 25 years of age |
| Height: | 6 ft 0 in |
| Team role: | Bowler |
| Batting style: | Right-hand bat |
| Bowling style: | Right-arm fast-medium |
| Played for: | England, England Lions, Yorkshire |
Player profile
Huddersfield-born, Bradford-raised, Ajmal Shahzad made cricket history on May 23, 2004 when he became the first British-born Asian to play for Yorkshire. A right-arm fast bowler and useful late middle-order batsman, he won plaudits for his displays at schoolboy level and for Yorkshire's Academy. Graham Roope, his coach, said that he was "far too mature for most schoolboy opponents of his age, and he can bat very well in addition to being a fearsome bowler." He endured a couple of slow seasons as injuries restricted his development, and he ...
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Player details
| Full name: | Graeme Peter Swann |
| Nickname: | Chin |
| Born: | March 24, 1979, Northampton |
| Current age: | 31 years of age |
| Height: | 6 ft 0 in |
| Team role: | Bowler |
| Batting style: | Right-hand bat |
| Bowling style: | Right-arm offbreak |
| Played for: | England, Northamptonshire, Nottinghamshire |
Player profile
Graeme Swann came to prominence with a maiden first-class century for Northants against Leicestershire in the Championship in 1998, his first season, and was regularly promoted in the batting order to provide impetus in one-day cricket. He impressed all observers with his positive attitude and energy. Fast-tracked into the A team to tour South Africa and Zimbabwe, he took 21 wickets at 25.61, and averaged 22 with the bat. Called up for the final Test against New Zealand during England's inglorious summer of 1999, Swann was subsequently left out of ...
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Player details
| Full name: | James Cullum Tredwell |
| Nickname: | Tredders, Pingu |
| Born: | February 27, 1982, Ashford, Kent |
| Current age: | 28 years of age |
| Height: | 5 ft 11 in |
| Team role: | Allrounder |
| Batting style: | Left-hand bat |
| Bowling style: | Right-arm offbreak |
| Played for: | England, England A, England Lions, Kent, Kent Cricket Board |
Player profile
It is not easy for young spinners making their way in first-class cricket, but Kent's James Tredwell has made steady progress as an off-spinner with considerable batting ability since making his debut in 2001. He made more appearances in limited overs than first-class cricket while he was establishing himself in the Kent side, but by 2003 he was representing the county in both forms of the game on a regular basis. Tredwell captained the England Under 19 side and lead Kent Second XI to success in the Second XI Trophy final of 2002 when he scored 111 ...
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Player details
| Full name: | Ian Jonathan Leonard Trott |
| Nickname: | Booger |
| Born: | April 22, 1981, Cape Town, Cape Province |
| Current age: | 29 years of age |
| Height: | 6 ft 0 in |
| Team role: | Top-order batsman |
| Batting style: | Right-hand bat |
| Bowling style: | Right-arm medium |
| Played for: | England, Boland, England Lions, Otago, Warwickshire, Western Province |
Player profile
A technically correct right-hander with an inscrutable temperament, Trott was born and raised in South Africa to a family steeped in cricketing history: he is related to Albert Trott, the former Australia batsman, though he is unsure exactly how. And he followed in the footsteps of Kevin Pietersen, committing his future to England then becoming an Ashes-winning batsman when he hit a hundred on Test debut at The Oval. Two years later, and this time in Melbourne, Trott repeated the dose with a brilliant unbeaten 168 that ensured England would ...
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Player details
| Full name: | Luke James Wright |
| Nickname: | None |
| Born: | March 7, 1985, Grantham, Lincolnshire |
| Current age: | 28 years of age |
| Height: | 6 ft 0 in |
| Team role: | Allrounder |
| Batting style: | Right-hand bat |
| Bowling style: | Right-arm medium-fast |
| Played for: | England, England Lions, England Under-19s, Leicestershire, Leicestershire Cricket Board, Sussex, Wellington |
Player profile
As a pace-bowling allrounder, it's no surprise that Luke Wright admires Jacques Kallis and Andrew Flintoff. When Flintoff retired from Test cricket after the 2009 Ashes, Wright was one the names mentioned as a potential successor and although he is some way off, his game is progressing - particularly in limited-overs cricket, where Wright has forged a permanent place in the side in Flintoff's absence. He has had a stop-start time at international level, but he wasn't helped by being shunted from the middle order to opener and back down ...
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Player details
| Full name: | Michael Howard Yardy |
| Nickname: | Yards, Paolo |
| Born: | November 27, 1980, Pembury, Kent |
| Current age: | 30 years of age |
| Height: | 6 ft 0 in |
| Team role: | Allrounder |
| Batting style: | Left-hand bat |
| Bowling style: | Slow left-arm orthodox |
| Played for: | England, Central Districts, Sussex, Sussex Cricket Board |
Player profile
A compact and organised left-hander with a technique not dissimilar to Andrew Strauss's, Mike Yardy had been a Sussex stand-in until he cemented his right to a starting place by recording his maiden first-class century in defeat against Surrey, in the final match of the 2004 season. He began 2005 in identical fashion, with another hundred against Surrey, to trigger a run of form that carried him to the top of the domestic batting charts. His zenith arrived against the Bangladeshis at Hove, where he scored 257 - the highest score by a Sussex batsman ...
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Match records and statistics
| Test Records | |
| Highest total: | 907'-7 dec vs Australia at The Oval in 1938 |
| Lowest total: | 45 vs Australia at Sydney in 1886/87 |
| Highest score: | 364 Len Hutton vs Australia at The Oval in 1938 |
| ICC Test Wins: | ICC Test Championships won - Not recorded |
| ODI Records | |
| Highest total: | 391/4 (50 overs) vs Bangladesh at Nottingham in 2005 |
| Lowest total: | 86/10 (32.4 overs) vs Australia at Manchester in 2001 |
| Highest score: | 167* Robin Smith vs Australia at Birmingham in 1993 |
| ICC ODI Wins: | ICC ODI Championships won - Not recorded |
Team profile
The England and Wales cricket team (Welsh: Tim criced Lloegr) is a cricket team which represents England and Wales. Since 1 January 1997 it has been governed by the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB), having been previously governed by Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) from 1903 until the end of 1996.
England and Australia were the first teams to be granted Test status on 15 March 1877 and they gained full membership to the International Cricket Council (ICC) on 15 June 1909. England and Australia also took part in the first One Day International (ODI) on 5 January 1971. England are the current holders of the Ashes, which is the Test match series contest between England and Australia and which has been played since the 1882-83 Australian season.
As of 7 January 2011, England has won 321 of the 908 Test matches played (drawing in 326), and is ranked third in the ICC Test Championship. England's One Day International record includes finishing as runners-up in 3 Cricket World Cups (1979, 1987 and 1992), and again as runners up in the ICC Champions Trophy in 2004. The team is currently in fifth place in the ICC ODI Championship. England's first international Twenty20 match was played on 13 June 2005 against Australia. The England team are the current ICC World Twenty20 champions having won the 2010 ICC World Twenty20, beating Australia by seven wickets in the final.
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