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Full name Michael Henry Denness
Born December 1, 1940, Bellshill, Lanarkshire, Scotland
Current age 67 years 281 days
Major teams England,Scotland,Essex,Kent
Nickname Haggis
Batting style Right-hand bat
Other Referee
Height
5 ft 11 in
Education Ayr Academy
Batting and fielding averages
Mat
Inns
NO
Runs
HS
Ave
BF
SR
100
50
4s
6s
Ct
St
Tests
28
45
3
1667
188
39.69
4
7
192
2
28
0
ODIs
12
11
2
264
66
29.33
417
63.30
0
1
17
2
1
0
First-class
501
838
65
25886
195
33.48
33
152
410
0
List A
232
219
21
5393
118*
27.23
6
28
94
0
Bowling averages
Mat
Inns
Balls
Runs
Wkts
BBI
BBM
Ave
Econ
SR
4w
5w
10
Tests
28
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-
-
-
-
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-
-
-
-
ODIs
12
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-
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-
First-class
501
84
62
2
1/7
31.00
4.42
42.0
0
0
List A
232
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Career statistics
Test debut
England v New Zealand at The Oval, Aug 21-26, 1969 scorecard
Last Test
England v Australia at Birmingham, Jul 10-14, 1975 scorecard
Test statistics
ODI debut
England v West Indies at Leeds, Sep 5, 1973 scorecard
Last ODI
England v Australia at Leeds, Jun 18, 1975 scorecard
ODI statistics
First-class span
1959 - 1980
List A span
1963 - 1980
ICC match referee statistics
Test debut
West Indies v New Zealand at Bridgetown, Apr 19-23, 1996 scorecard
Last Test
Pakistan v West Indies at Sharjah, Feb 7-10, 2002 scorecard
Test matches
14
Test statistics
ODI debut
West Indies v New Zealand at Kingston, Mar 26, 1996 scorecard
Last ODI
Pakistan v West Indies at Sharjah, Feb 17, 2002 scorecard
ODI matches
35
ODI statistics
Profile
Few contemporary batsmen were more stylish than Mike Denness at his peak, in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Tallish and slim, well-balanced, immaculately dressed on and off the field, possessed of a fine array of strokes and an excellent cover fieldsman to boot, Denness looked a model cricketer in every way. It was his misfortune that when those qualities won him the England captaincy, after Ray Illingworth's dismissal, he lacked the support of one of the players on whom he was most dependent. Geoff Boycott, who made no secret of how acutely he coveted the captaincy himself, played only the first six of Denness's 19 Tests as captain, which fatally holed England's prospects against Dennis Lillee and Jeff Thomson in Australia in 1974-75. Deposed when Australia won the first Test of 1975 at Edgbaston, Denness took his medicine with typical graciousness. He later became an ICC match referee but, at Port Elizabeth in 2001-02, his decision to sanction six Indian players, including Sachin Tendulkar, caused such a furore that the Indian and South African boards barred Denness from officiating in the next match, at Centurion. The ICC responded by withdrawing Test status from the game. John Thicknesse
Notes
Wisden Cricketer of the Year 1975 Autobiography - I Declare (1977)
