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Full name Derek Raymond Pringle
Born September 18, 1958, Nairobi, Kenya
Current age 50 years 26 days
Major teams England,Cambridge University,Essex
Batting style Right-hand bat
Bowling style Right-arm medium
Other Commentator
Height
6 ft 4 in
Education Felsted School; Cambridge
Relations Father - DJ Pringle
Batting and fielding averages
Mat
Inns
NO
Runs
HS
Ave
BF
SR
100
50
4s
6s
Ct
St
Tests
30
50
4
695
63
15.10
2439
28.49
0
1
66
2
10
0
ODIs
44
30
12
425
49*
23.61
616
68.99
0
0
26
3
11
0
First-class
295
405
78
9243
128
28.26
10
48
153
0
List A
317
245
57
4873
81*
25.92
0
29
87
0
Bowling averages
Mat
Inns
Balls
Runs
Wkts
BBI
BBM
Ave
Econ
SR
4w
5w
10
Tests
30
52
5287
2518
70
5/95
7/120
35.97
2.85
75.5
2
3
0
ODIs
44
44
2379
1677
44
4/42
4/42
38.11
4.22
54.0
1
0
0
First-class
295
45139
20230
761
7/18
26.58
2.68
59.3
25
3
List A
317
15410
10395
383
5/12
5/12
27.14
4.04
40.2
5
5
0
Career statistics
Test debut
England v India at Lord's, Jun 10-15, 1982 scorecard
Last Test
England v Pakistan at The Oval, Aug 6-9, 1992 scorecard
Test statistics
ODI debut
England v Pakistan at Nottingham, Jul 17, 1982 scorecard
Last ODI
England v Australia at Birmingham, May 21, 1993 scorecard
ODI statistics
First-class span
1978 - 1993
List A span
1978 - 1993
Profile
When the chairman of selectors Peter May plucked 23-year-old Derek Pringle from Cambridge to the England team in 1982, amateur psychologists had a rare treat. People speculated that May, a man with four daughters, saw in Pringle the son he never had. He was certainly not the son he would have expected. The most fluent undergraduate stroke player in a generation turned out to be primarily a medium-pace bowler who could use his 6ft 5in to generate swing and bounce and play occasionally effective innings in the mid to late-order. He hardly thought like the strait-laced May either: Pringle, the first England cricketer to wear an ear-ring, had eclectic tastes in reading, slightly outre tastes in music and lateral thought processes. Spectators, especially outside Essex, derided him constantly - as an ungainly under-achiever who lumbered round the field. But he retained the confidence even of captains as stern as Graham Gooch, since he was adaptable, dependable and, beneath the unconventional veneer, loyal. His overall record with bat and ball was unimpressive for someone who played 30 Tests. May - who disliked the press - might have been more horrified by his subsequent career as cricket correspondent of The Independent, latterly, The Daily Telegraph.
Matthew Engel
