Tim May

Personal information
Batting style	Right-hand bat
Bowling style	Right-arm offbreak
Domestic team information
Years	Team
1984–1996	South Australia
Career statistics
Competition	Tests	ODIs
Matches	24	47
Runs scored	225	39
Batting average	14.06	9.75
100s/50s	-/-	-/-
Top score	42*	15
Balls bowled	6577	2504
Wickets	75	39
Bowling average	34.74	45.43
5 wickets in innings	3	-
10 wickets in match	-	n/a
Best bowling	5/9	3/19
Catches/stumpings	6/-	3/-
Source: [1], 12 December 2005

Timothy Brian Alexander May (born 26 January 1962 at North Adelaide, South Australia) is a former cricketer for South Australia and Australia, who is currently a leading players' representative in his role as Chief Executive of the Federation of International Cricketers' Associations (FICA). May played in 24 Tests and 47 ODIs in an injury-interrupted career between 1987 and 1995.

An off-spin bowler, May propelled the ball from a high action with considerable accuracy, a skill that made him Australia's first-choice bowler in One Day Internationals prior to the ascent of Shane Warne. May was also a prodigious spinner of the ball and could be devastating on turning wickets. During the 1993 Ashes series in England, May often bowled in tandem with Warne and they captured 55 wickets between them. His best bowling in Tests was 5/9 in 1992–93 against the West Indies in the fourth Test at the Adelaide Oval.

May was also a handy batsman good enough to score a first-class century. He recorded his best Test score (42 not out) in the Adelaide Oval match mentioned above, almost seeing Australia through to an unlikely victory against the rampant West Indies pace attack.

Though not a good fielder, May was regularly selected as twelfth man for Australia, and holds the record for most appearances in this role. On one occasion during the 1992–93 World Series Cup, May was substituting for the injured Dean Jones and dropped a catch from Rameez Raja at extra cover, forcing Jones to return. May was also known for being accident prone. This was a common theme in May's 1998 book 'Mayhem', a satirical, semi-autobiographical tour diary.^{[citation needed]}

In 1997, May became the inaugural CEO of the Australian Cricketers' Association and was a significant influence in its establishment as an important organisation in Australian cricket. In June 2005, he was appointed as the CEO of FICA, which is based in Austin, Texas. May was the driving force behind the staging of the World Cricket Tsunami Appeal match in 2004.

Tim May's Test career batting performance.

External links[link]

• Cricinfo article on Tim May

References[link]

• Benaud, Richie (1991). Border & Co: A Tribute To Cricket's World Champions. Hamlyn Australia. ISBN 0-947334-31-9. 

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Tim Knol
Birth name	Tim Knol
Born	1989-09-12
Origin	Hoorn  Netherlands
Genres	pop music, roots rock
Instruments	singer guitar
Labels	Excelsior Recordings
Associated acts	Be Right Back Anne Soldaat
Website	http://www.timknol.nl

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Tim Knol (Hoorn, September 12, 1989) is a Dutch singer-songwriter.

Biography[link]

Knol was born and raised in Hoorn, where he started making music at the age of 10. Locally, he made an impression with the band Be Right Back in which he sang and played guitar.^[1] While playing in that band, he also worked on various side projects and recorded a couple of solo tracks. In May 2008 he played at De avond van het kippenvel in Utrecht, where he came in contact with Anne Soldaat, formerly of Daryll-Ann.^[2] Together they recorded some demos for Excelsior Recordings. In May 2009 he decided to quit his band, and start a solo career. In June 2009 the first result from his solo career, a cover version of Godley & Creme's Cry, appeared on the online compilation album Guilty pleasures. Other artists that appeared on that album were Silence Is Sexy and Solo.^[3]

During the Lowlands Festival in August 2009, Knol signed a record deal with Excelsior Recordings. His debut record received positive reviews in the Dutch media.^[4][5] On the album Knol is accopanied by Jacob de Greeuw, Jeroen Kleijn and Matthijs van Duijvenbode from Johan and Anne Soldaat and Reyer Zwart from Do-The-Undo.^[6] Knol first presented his songs as a support act for Johan, during their farewell tour in the second half of 2009. After a few try-out concerts, the first big performance of Knol with his new band was at the Noorderslag Festival in Groningen January 2010.^[7]

His debut album was released in Great-Britain May 24, 2010 by Excelsior Recordings.

The music of Tim Knol is often compared to the roots rock of Gram Parsons, Wilco and Ryan Adams.^[8]

Discography[link]

• Tim Knol (2010)
• Days (2011)

External links[link]

• Official website
• Tim Knol at Myspace

Notes[link]

Curtly Ambrose

Personal information
Full name	Curtly Elconn Lynwall Ambrose
Born	(1963-09-21) 21 September 1963 (age 48) Swetes, Antigua and Barbuda
Height	6 ft 7 in (2.01 m)
Batting style	Left-handed batsman
Bowling style	Right-arm fast
Role	Bowler
International information
National side	West Indies
Test debut (cap 192)	2 April 1988 v Pakistan
Last Test	31 August 2000 v England
ODI debut (cap 53)	12 March 1988 v Pakistan
Last ODI	23 April 2000 v Pakistan
Domestic team information
Years	Team
1985–2000	Leeward Islands
1998–1999	Antigua and Barbuda
1989–1996	Northamptonshire
Career statistics
Competition	Tests	ODIs	FC	List A
Matches	98	176	239	329
Runs scored	1439	639	3448	1282
Batting average	12.40	10.65	13.95	11.98
100s/50s	0/1	0/0	0/4	0/0
Top score	53	31*	78	48
Balls bowled	22103	9353	48798	17143
Wickets	405	225	941	401
Bowling average	20.99	24.12	20.24	23.83
5 wickets in innings	22	4	50	4
10 wickets in match	3	n/a	8	n/a
Best bowling	8/45	5/17	8/45	5/17
Catches/stumpings	18/0	45/0	88/0	82/0
Source: [1], September 1 2007

Curtly Elconn Lynwall Ambrose (born September 21, 1963) is a former West Indian cricketer. His skill was as a right-arm fast bowler, especially in partnership with Courtney Walsh. His huge 6'7" (2.01 m) frame was a fearsome sight for any batsman; even when his pace fell away due to age, he still bowled excellent line and length and, due to his height, could extract steepling bounce from any pitch — a threat to even the finest of batsmen. With Walsh, he formed one of the greatest opening bowling partnerships in history, as evidenced by the 421 wickets they shared in the 49 Test matches they played together.^[1]

Ambrose was a man of few words, refusing countless interview requests with the motto "Curtly talk to no man."^[2]

Playing career[link]

Born in Swetes, Antigua, he played for the Leeward Islands. He came to England in 1986 on a Viv Richards scholarship and played for Chester Boughton Hall in the Liverpool and District Cricket Competition taking 84 wickets in 362.1 overs at an average of 9.80. After playing for Littleborough in 1987, he was engaged by Northamptonshire County Cricket Club, and went on to represent the West Indian cricket team. Ambrose made his Test debut in April 1988 at Georgetown, Guyana against Pakistan and retired at the end of the England tour in August 2000.

International cricket[link]

In Test cricket, he had 98 caps, bowled 1,001 maiden overs (roughly two in every seven) and took 405 wickets (making him only the fifth to exceed the 400 barrier) at an average of 20.99. This average is marginally bettered only by fellow West Indians Malcolm Marshall (20.94) and Joel Garner (20.97) among bowlers who have taken more than 200 wickets. In addition, Ambrose also boasts the best economy rate of any of the ten bowlers who have taken 400 or more Test wickets, at 2.30 per over.^[3] His best performance was eight for 45 against England at Barbados in 1990 (in 34 Tests against England he took 164 wickets, dismissing Mike Atherton seventeen times); he took five wickets or better on 22 occasions, including seven wickets for one run against Australia at the WACA, in Perth, in 1993. He also bowled a fifteen-ball over at the same ground: it contained nine no-balls and took thirteen minutes to bowl, making it possibly the longest over in Test cricket.^[4]

In 176 one-day internationals, Ambrose took 225 wickets. Despite certain pretensions as a left-handed batsman, and a single Test fifty to his credit (53 against Australia in 1991), he did not distinguish himself with the bat.

Legacy and life after cricket[link]

Having retired from cricket, Ambrose now plays guitar in a reggae band called Big Bad Dread and the Baldhead alongside former team-mate Richie Richardson.^[5]

He was placed at No. 3 in Shane Warne's list of the fifty greatest cricketers of his time,^[6] while Ian Botham in his book Botham's Century noted that, although "a cricketer who thrived on aggression and menace", Ambrose was "the most reluctant and detached of heroes", indeed "one of the quietest that I ever encountered". As a bowler, he was always "miserly accurate" but occasionally, when fired up, "as unforgiving and as devastating as a hurricane", and "virtually unplayable": "But maybe of all these weapons, the most potent was his silence. Many fast bowlers have tried to put batsmen off their strokes by utilising various forms of verbal and physical intimidation. Curtly intimidated you with hush."^[7]

Hall of Fame[link]

Curtly Ambrose has been inducted into the ICC Hall of Fame. Joining Ambrose in 2011's Hall of Fame class was an Australian trio of former allrounder Alan Davidson, former women's captain Belinda Clark and the late fast bowler Frederick Spofforth.

He was identified as one of the finest bowlers of all time, Ambrose picked up 405 Test wickets at an average of 20.99 in a career that had remarkable performances. He took 6 for 24 to skittle England for 46 in Trinidad in 1993, and 7 for 25 against Australia at the WACA in 1993 to win the series for his side. He also played 176 ODIs, taking 225 wickets at an average of 24.12.

"It is a privilege and an honor to be inducted in the Hall of Fame," Ambrose said. "In the history of cricket there have been many great cricketers and to be part of that elite group, I'm very happy and very humbled.". Also he added as "I never thought that this day would come. This only tells me that all the hard work I put in throughout my career did not go unnoticed. I see this also as a just reward for all the joy and happiness that I may have brought to cricket and cricketers alike."

Notes[link]

External links[link]

• Player profile: Curtly Ambrose from ESPNcricinfo