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Full name John Paul Crawley
Born September 21, 1971, Maldon, Essex
Current age 36 years 239 days
Major teams England,Cambridge University,Hampshire,Lancashire
Nickname Creepy
Batting style Right-hand bat
Bowling style Right-arm medium
Fielding position Occasional wicketkeeper
Height
6 ft 2 in
Education Manchester Grammar School, Trinity College Cambridge
Relations Brother - MA Crawley,Brother - PM Crawley
Batting and fielding averages
Mat
Inns
NO
Runs
HS
Ave
BF
SR
100
50
4s
6s
Ct
St
Tests
37
61
9
1800
156*
34.61
4589
39.22
4
9
187
3
29
0
ODIs
13
12
1
235
73
21.36
408
57.59
0
2
14
1
1
1
First-class
337
559
57
23852
311*
47.51
54
129
212
1
List A
301
288
23
8512
114
32.12
7
55
94
4
Twenty20
10
10
1
107
23
11.88
146
73.28
0
0
9
0
3
0
Bowling averages
Mat
Inns
Balls
Runs
Wkts
BBI
BBM
Ave
Econ
SR
4w
5w
10
Tests
37
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
ODIs
13
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
First-class
337
215
283
2
1/7
141.50
7.89
107.5
0
0
List A
301
6
4
0
-
-
-
4.00
-
0
0
0
Twenty20
10
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
Career statistics
Test debut
England v South Africa at Lord's, Jul 21-24, 1994 scorecard
Last Test
Australia v England at Sydney, Jan 2-6, 2003 scorecard
Test statistics
ODI debut
England v Zimbabwe at Sydney, Dec 15, 1994 scorecard
Last ODI
England v Sri Lanka at Sydney, Feb 3, 1999 scorecard
ODI statistics
First-class debut
1990
Last First-class
Somerset v Hampshire at Taunton, May 7-10, 2008 scorecard
List A debut
1991
Last List A
Hampshire v Somerset at Southampton, May 2, 2008 scorecard
Twenty20 debut
Hampshire v Sussex at Southampton, Jun 13, 2003 scorecard
Last Twenty20
Hampshire v Lancashire at Southampton, Jul 19, 2004 scorecard
Profile
Few players in the world deal quite so clinically - and elegantly - with the
ball that strays onto the pads. But it is weaknesses in other areas of
Crawley's game that have cost him a regular place in the England side.
Several big scores for Cambridge, Lancashire and England A paved the way for
his Test debut, against South Africa in 1994, but he was undone by the
Lord's slope, and never quite shook off the accusation that he didn't know
where his off stump was. Crawley was in and out of the Test team after that,
despite caressing consecutive hundreds against Pakistan, in 1996, and, that
winter, Zimbabwe, and hitting out freely to score 156 not out in Muttiah
Muralitharan's Oval Test of 1998. Peerless on the leg side and an
intelligent player of spin, Crawley also added a cover-drive to his
less-than-fluent off-side game. He is also fitter than the heavy-hipped
youngster who toured Australia in 1994-95. After a bitter legal battle with
Lancashire, he joined Hampshire for the 2002 season. The change of scene
worked wonders and Crawley was soon recalled to the England squad after an
absence of more than three years. He responded with a century against India
at Lord's, but his third tour of Australia was a disappointingly stop-start
affair, as injury interrupted a run of good form. He has remained as consistent as ever in county cricket, topping the first-division in 2006 with 1,737 runs and six centuries, form that made him an outside bet for another England recall.
Lawrence Booth (September 2006)
