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Full name Ian David Blackwell
Born June 10, 1978, Chesterfield, Derbyshire
Current age 30 years 29 days
Major teams England,Derbyshire,Somerset
Nickname Blackdog, Donkey, Le Donk
Batting style Left-hand bat
Bowling style Slow left-arm orthodox
Height
6 ft 2 in
Education Manor Secondary School
Batting and fielding averages
Mat
Inns
NO
Runs
HS
Ave
BF
SR
100
50
4s
6s
Ct
St
Tests
1
1
0
4
4
4.00
16
25.00
0
0
0
0
0
0
ODIs
34
29
2
403
82
14.92
465
86.66
0
1
38
9
8
0
First-class
137
207
15
7624
247*
39.70
19
38
50
0
List A
216
197
18
4951
134*
27.65
3
30
55
0
Twenty20
30
29
5
498
82
20.75
381
130.70
0
1
47
18
10
0
Bowling averages
Mat
Inns
Balls
Runs
Wkts
BBI
BBM
Ave
Econ
SR
4w
5w
10
Tests
1
2
114
71
0
-
-
-
3.73
-
0
0
0
ODIs
34
26
1230
877
24
3/26
3/26
36.54
4.27
51.2
0
0
0
First-class
137
20404
9519
230
7/90
41.38
2.79
88.7
7
0
List A
216
7399
5912
162
5/26
5/26
36.49
4.79
45.6
2
1
0
Twenty20
30
28
577
694
23
4/26
4/26
30.17
7.21
25.0
1
0
0
Career statistics
Only Test
India v England at Nagpur, Mar 1-5, 2006 scorecard
Test statistics
ODI debut
England v Zimbabwe at Colombo (RPS), Sep 18, 2002 scorecard
Somerset v Yorkshire at Taunton, Jun 6-9, 2008 scorecard
List A debut
1997
Last List A
Kent v Somerset at Beckenham, Jun 4-5, 2008 scorecard
Twenty20 debut
Somerset v Warwickshire at Taunton, Jun 13, 2003 scorecard
Last Twenty20
Warwickshire v Somerset at Birmingham, Jun 24, 2008 scorecard
Profile
A fierce hitter and a tidy left-arm spinner whose first first-class wicket was Steve Waugh, the chunky Ian Blackwell was called up by England when Andrew Flintoff pulled out of the ICC Trophy in Sri Lanka in 2002. He owed that to an innate sense of timing: Blackwell whacked 28 off Matthew Hoggard in front of Duncan Fletcher in the County Championship earlier that season - though he didn't know Fletcher was at the ground - and smeared a matchwinning 86 off 53 balls in the televised C&G Trophy semi-final the same year. He started off at Derbyshire, before moving to Somerset in 2000, an appropriate move for a man who says he bases his batting style on Ian Botham. He has established a reputation as a retriever of lost causes with bat and ball. Despite a run of outs that left his face even redder than usual in the 2002-03 VB Series in Australia - he finished with 0, 0, 0 and 1 - he claimed a place in the 2003 World Cup squad. An unwillingness to adhere to England squad's strict fitness regime meant that he spent much of the following two years in the wilderness, but his appointment as Somerset captain heralded a new responsible outlook, and a recall to the England one-day squad for the tour of Pakistan. His Test debut came in India, but he looked out of his depth with both bat and ball, and the experiment lasted one match. Sadly, his progress stalled when he missed almost all of the 2006 season after surgery on his shoulder. He plays golf off a handicap of six, and lists Eminem among his favourite artists.
Andrew Miller August 2006
