Graeme Hick, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

    

Graeme Hick

Cricket player of England.

Date of Birth: 23-May-1966

Place of Birth: Harare, Harare Province, Zimbabwe

Profession: cricketer

Nationality: United Kingdom

Zodiac Sign: Gemini


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About Graeme Hick

  • Graeme Ashley Hick (born 23 May 1966) is a former English cricketer who played 65 Test matches and 120 One Day Internationals for England.
  • He was born in Rhodesia, and as a young man played international cricket for Zimbabwe.
  • He played English county cricket for Worcestershire for his entire English domestic career, a period of well over twenty years, and in 2008 surpassed Graham Gooch's record for the most matches in all forms of the game combined.He scored more than 40,000 first-class runs, mostly from number three in the order, and he is one of only three players to have passed 20,000 runs in List A cricket (Graham Gooch and Sachin Tendulkar are the others) and is one of only twenty-five players to have scored 100 centuries in first-class cricket.
  • He is the only cricketer who scored first-class triple hundreds in three different decades (1988, 1997 and 2002).
  • He is the second highest run scorer of all time after Graham Gooch.
  • Despite these achievements, he is commonly held to have underachieved in international cricket, a view based on comparison of Hick's overall first-class batting average of 52.23 vis-à-vis his Test average of 31.32. At one time Hick's bowling was a significant force, and his off-spin claimed more than 200 first-class wickets.
  • However, after 2001 he rarely bowled, and took only one first-class and two List A wickets; indeed, after the 2004 season he did not bowl a single ball in either form of the game.
  • Throughout his career he was an outstanding slip fielder: Gooch wrote in his autobiography that his ideal slip cordon would comprise Mark Taylor, Ian Botham and Hick.Hick was granted a benefit season by Worcestershire in 1999, which raised over £345,000; he was also awarded a testimonial in 2006.
  • Hick retired from county cricket at the end of the 2008 season, to take up a coaching post at Malvern College.
  • For the remaining part of the season, he joined Chandigarh Lions of the Indian Cricket League.

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