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Full name Craig John McDermott
Born April 14, 1965, Raceview, Ipswich, Queensland
Current age 43 years 33 days
Major teams Australia, Queensland
Also known as Billy
Batting style Right-hand bat
Bowling style Right-arm fast
Relations Son - A McDermott

Batting and fielding averages
	Mat	Inns	NO	Runs	HS	Ave	BF	SR	50	4s	6s	Ct
Tests	71	90	13	940	42*	12.20	1716	54.77	0	90	6	19
ODIs	138	78	17	432	37	7.08	492	87.80	0	36	8	27
First-class	174	210	35	2856	74	16.32			7			53
List A	176	97	23	594	41	8.02			0			32

Bowling averages
	Mat	Inns	Balls	Runs	Wkts	BBI	BBM	Ave	Econ	SR	4w	5w	10
Tests	71	124	16586	8332	291	8/97	11/157	28.63	3.01	56.9	17	14	2
ODIs	138	138	7461	5018	203	5/44	5/44	24.71	4.03	36.7	4	1	0
First-class	174		36785	19025	677	8/44		28.10	3.10	54.3		37	4
List A	176		9416	6212	254	5/44	5/44	24.45	3.95	37.0	7	1	0

Career statistics
Test debut	Australia v West Indies at Melbourne, Dec 22-27, 1984 scorecard
Last Test	Australia v Sri Lanka at Adelaide, Jan 25-29, 1996 scorecard
Test statistics
ODI debut	Australia v West Indies at Melbourne, Jan 6, 1985 scorecard
Last ODI	Australia v Kenya at Visakhapatnam, Feb 23, 1996 scorecard
ODI statistics
First-class span	1983/84 - 1995/96
List A span	1983/84 - 1995/96

Profile

After bursting onto the scene as a 19-year-old in England in 1985, when he took 30 wickets in six Tests, Craig McDermott had a stop-start, injury-ravaged career (which included a twisted bowel and a broken ankle) but fought back to become Australia's leading wicket-taker for a time, establishing himself as Australia's premier strike bowler in the early 1990s. McDermott was not as fiery as his red hair suggested, nor did he capture the public imagination in the manner of Dennis Lillee or Shane Warne, but he was a textbook outswing bowler with a classic side-on action who could run through any batting order on his day. He was also a thumping batsman in his youth. Like all self-respecting Aussies, he saved his best for England, with 84 wickets in 17 Tests, including two eight-fors and eight of his 14 five-fors. His best performance was probably at Perth in 1990-91, when he took 8 for 97 as England collapsed from 191 for 2 to 244 all out. Injuries hit McDermott again towards the end of his career: he missed the best part of the 1993 Ashes tour, as well as the famous victory in the Caribbean in 1994-95 and the World Cup a year later.
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