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Full name Douglas Anthony Marillier
Born April 24, 1978, Salisbury (now Harare)
Current age 30 years 23 days
Major teams Zimbabwe, Midlands
Batting style Right-hand bat
Bowling style Right-arm offbreak
Fielding position Wicketkeeper

Batting and fielding averages
	Mat	Inns	NO	Runs	HS	Ave	BF	SR	100	50	4s	6s	Ct
Tests	5	7	1	186	73	31.00	437	42.56	0	2	16	2	2
ODIs	48	41	4	672	100	18.16	949	70.81	1	3	62	7	12
First-class	41	71	4	2612	202	38.98			7	14			39
List A	93	84	7	1895	117	24.61			3	9			27

Bowling averages
	Mat	Inns	Balls	Runs	Wkts	BBI	BBM	Ave	Econ	SR	4w
Tests	5	6	616	322	11	4/57	6/96	29.27	3.13	56.0	2
ODIs	48	35	1574	1235	30	4/38	4/38	41.16	4.70	52.4	1
First-class	41		3407	2131	56	4/44		38.05	3.75	60.8
List A	93		2910	2297	56	4/38	4/38	41.01	4.73	51.9	1

Career statistics
Test debut	New Zealand v Zimbabwe at Wellington, Dec 26-30, 2000 scorecard
Last Test	Sri Lanka v Zimbabwe at Galle, Jan 12-15, 2002 scorecard
Test statistics
ODI debut	Zimbabwe v New Zealand at Bulawayo, Sep 30, 2000 scorecard
Last ODI	South Africa v Zimbabwe at Cardiff, Jul 5, 2003 scorecard
ODI statistics
First-class span	1998/99 - 2004/05
List A span	1998/99 - 2005

Profile

After surviving a horrific car crash at the age of 16, Dougie Marillier was wheelchair-bound for three months, and it was feared he would never play cricket again. But he recovered to become an aggressive opening or middle-order batsman who favoured the leg side. He also showed outstanding improvisational skills in the one-day game, and gained great kudos in Zimbabwe in February 2001 by twice lapping low off-side full-tosses from Glenn McGrath over his shoulder for four in the final over of a Perth one-dayer when 14 were needed (Zimbabwe lost by one run). He repeated the shot with devastating effect in a famous one-day victory over India at Faridabad in 2001-0. An occasional offspinner who gets more bounce than turn, he made an unexpected mark as a bowler in the fourth ODI against England at Bulawayo in October 2001, when he came on at 95 for 0 and stopped the rot by singlehandedly removing the top four in the order. He was also known to keep wicket. But he quit Zimbabwe cricket at the end of March 2004, disillusioned and angry, like so many before him, and opted to try his luck as a professional in England.
Martin Williamson (April 2004)

Oct 5, 2004

Dougie Marillier portrait
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Apr 26, 2004

Doug Marillier
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May 29, 2003

Douglas Marillier is clean bowled by Mohammad Sami
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