Graeme Hick 54 off 55 Balls vs West Indies at MCG in 1992 World Cup. Graeme Ashley Hick MBE (born 23 May 1966) is a former Rhodesian-born English cricketer who played 65 Test matches and 120 One Day Internationals for England. He was born in Rhodesia, and as a young man played international cricket for Zimbabwe. He played English county cricket for Worcestershire for his entire English domestic career, a period of well over twenty years, and in 2008 surpassed Graham Gooch's record for the most matches in all forms of the game combined. He scored more than 40,000 first-class runs, mostly from number three in the order, and he is one of only three players to have passed 20,000 runs in List A cricket (Graham Gooch and Sachin Tendulkar are the others) and is one of the only twenty-five players to have scored 100 centuries in first-class cricket. He is the only cricketer who scored first-class triple hundreds in three different decades (1988, 1997 and 2002). He is the second-highest run-scorer of all time after Graham Gooch. Despite these achievements, he is commonly held to have underachieved in international cricket, a view based on the comparison of Hick's overall first-class batting average of 52.23 vis-à-vis his Test average of 31.32. At one time Hick's bowling was a significant force, and his off-spin claimed more than 200 first-class wickets. However, after 2001 he rarely bowled, and took only one first-class and two List A wickets; indeed, after the 2004 season, he did not bowl a single ball in either form of the game. Throughout his career he was an outstanding slip fielder: Gooch wrote in his autobiography that his ideal slip cordon would comprise Mark Taylor, Ian Botham, and Hick. Hick was granted a benefit season by Worcestershire in 1999, which raised over £345,000;[7] he was also awarded a testimonial in 2006.[8] Hick retired from county cricket at the end of the 2008 season, to take up a coaching post at Malvern College. For the remaining part of the season, he joined Chandigarh Lions of the Indian Cricket League #graemehick #gramehickbatsman #gramehickcricketer #gramehickbatting Website - https://cricketthrills.com/ Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/Cricket-Cosmos-101779684750666/ Pinterest - https://www.pinterest.com/dreamzsnet5/ Twitter - https://twitter.com/NawazTauheed Reddit - https://www.reddit.com/user/tauheedahmad Linkedin - https://www.linkedin.com/in/charismatic-planet-159211a8/ Tumblr - https://dreamzs338.tumblr.com/ Mix - https://mix.com/tauheedahmednawaz VK - https://vk.com/id309368494 2nd Website - https://charismaticplanet.com/ 3rd Website - https://www.positivelivinglife.com/

• published: 09 May 2020
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