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Rikki Clarke

Full name: Rikki Clarke

Born: 29th September 1981, Orsett, Essex, England

Batting: Right-hand batsman
Bowling: Right-arm fast-medium

Teams: England (Test: 2003/04); England (ODI: 2003-2006); Surrey (Main FC: 2002-2007); Marylebone Cricket Club (Main FC: 2006); Derbyshire (Main FC: 2008); Warwickshire (Main FC: 2008); Surrey (Main ListA: 2001-2007); Surrey Cricket Board (Main ListA: 2001); Derbyshire (Main ListA: 2008); Warwickshire (Main ListA: 2008); Surrey (Main Twenty20: 2003-2007); Derbyshire (Main Twenty20: 2008); All teams

Cricket Writers' Club Young Cricketer of the Year: 2002

Surrey cap: 2005

Lists of matches and more detailed statistics
Articles: 2nd ODI summary in Urdu

England's Clarke eager to make up for lost time

Akhtar leads Pakistan advance against England

List of all articles

Pictures: Clarke plays a cut shot

Clarke is clean bowled

Shoaib Akhtar celebrates after taking the wicket of Clarke

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Among the new breed of players knocking at the doors for a regular place in the England squad Rikki Clarke is one of the best. He certainly is young cricketer with immense potential for he has displayed all round skills of a high order. At the moment his game seems tailor made for limited overs cricket but he has not done badly in the two Tests he has played against Bangladesh on the 2003-04 tour scoring 96 at an average of 32 and picking up four wickets for 60 runs. But the fact remains that the tall and compactly built Clarke is a bit of a one-day specialist as underlined by his fairly impressive record. Winner of the Cricketers Writers Club prestigious Young Cricketer of the year award in 2002 he was included in the squad for the Champions Trophy in Sri Lanka. But he played his first ODI against Pakistan at Old Trafford in June 2003 and made it a memorable one by becoming the first Englishman since Geoff Arnold in 1972 to take a wicket with his first delivery. He then toured Bangladesh, Sri Lanka and West Indies but overall had a rather disappointing record. However consistent performances in the 2006 season brought him back into the ODI squad against Pakistan and for the Champions Trophy in India.
Profile DateLine: 20th February 2007 by CricketArchive

Test Career Batting and Fielding (2003/04)
	M	I	NO	Runs	HS	Ave	100	50	SRate	Ct
England	2	3	0	96	55	32.00	0	1	37.94	1

Test Career Bowling (2003/04)
	Balls	Mdns	Runs	Wkts	BB	Ave	5wI	10wM	SRate	Econ
England	174	11	60	4	2-7	15.00	0	0	43.50	2.06

First-Class Career Batting and Fielding (2002-2008)
	M	I	NO	Runs	HS	Ave	100	50	Ct
Overall	89	142	13	4719	214	36.58	10	20	113

First-Class Career Bowling (2002-2008)
	Balls	Mdns	Runs	Wkts	BB	Ave	5wI	10wM	SRate	Econ
Overall	7590	190	5215	125	4-21	41.72	0	0	60.72	4.12

One-Day International Career Batting and Fielding (2003-2006)
	M	I	NO	Runs	HS	Ave	100	50	SRate	Ct
England	20	13	0	144	39	11.07	0	0	62.06	11

One-Day International Career Bowling (2003-2006)
	Balls	Mdns	Runs	Wkts	BB	Ave	4wI	5wI	SRate	Econ
England	469	3	415	11	2-28	37.72	0	0	42.63	5.30

One-Day Career Batting and Fielding (2001-2008)
	M	I	NO	Runs	HS	Ave	100	50	Ct
Overall	124	109	14	2404	98*	25.30	0	12	54

One-Day Career Bowling (2001-2008)
	Balls	Mdns	Runs	Wkts	BB	Ave	4wI	5wI	SRate	Econ
Overall	3041	21	2872	76	4-49	37.78	2	0	40.01	5.66

Twenty20 Career Batting and Fielding (2003-2008)
	M	I	NO	Runs	HS	Ave	100	50	SRate	Ct
Overall	42	40	9	631	79*	20.35	0	2	121.34	18

Twenty20 Career Bowling (2003-2008)
	Balls	Mdns	Runs	Wkts	BB	Ave	4wI	5wI	SRate	Econ
Overall	564	2	704	31	3-11	22.70	0	0	18.19	7.48