Ryan Sidebottom

Ryan Sidebottom
Sidebottom in 2017
Personal information
Full name
Ryan Jay Sidebottom
Born (1978-01-15) 15 January 1978 (age 46)
Huddersfield, West Yorkshire
Height1.96 m (6 ft 5 in)
BattingLeft-handed
BowlingLeft-arm fast-medium
RoleBowler
RelationsArnie Sidebottom (father)
International information
National side
Test debut (cap 604)17 May 2001 v Pakistan
Last Test14 January 2010 v South Africa
ODI debut (cap 168)7 October 2001 v Zimbabwe
Last ODI28 February 2010 v Bangladesh
ODI shirt no.18
Domestic team information
YearsTeam
1997–2003Yorkshire
2003–2010Nottinghamshire
2011–2017Yorkshire (squad no. 11)
Career statistics
Competition Test ODI FC LA
Matches 22 25 230 186
Runs scored 313 133 2,684 552
Batting average 15.65 13.30 13.90 11.04
100s/50s 0/0 0/0 0/3 0/0
Top score 31 24 61 32
Balls bowled 4,812 1,277 39,204 8,226
Wickets 79 29 762 198
Bowling average 28.24 35.82 23.80 30.97
5 wickets in innings 5 0 31 2
10 wickets in match 1 0 4 0
Best bowling 7/47 3/19 7/37 6/40
Catches/stumpings 5/– 6/– 64/– 39/–
Source: ESPNcricinfo, 28 September 2017

Ryan Jay Sidebottom (born 15 January 1978) is a former England international cricketer who played domestic cricket for Yorkshire and Nottinghamshire and retired in 2017, after taking more than 1,000 career wickets.[1] He is the only player in the last 15 years (as of 2017) to win 5 county championships[2] and also won the 2010 ICC World Twenty20 with England.[3]

He was primarily a left-arm fast-medium bowler. Sidebottom played his first Test match in 2001 against Pakistan, but failed to take a wicket and was dropped for six years. In 2007, he was brought back into the side following an injury to Matthew Hoggard and took four wickets in his first innings. He went on to become a prolific bowler for England over the next two years, though injuries saw him lose his place in the Test side in 2009. He retired from international duty on 20 September 2010,[4] after playing 22 Tests for England and winning the 2010 ICC World Twenty20.

He took the 37th Test cricket hat-trick in his 11th match for England against New Zealand, becoming the 11th English player to do so, on 8 March 2008, and on 23 March, he took his third five-wicket haul in the same series, breaking the previous record for an Englishman in New Zealand.

He is a former pupil of King James's Grammar School, Almondbury, Huddersfield.[5] He has two children, a daughter, Indiana Nell, and a son, Darley Jack with his first wife Kate. He now lives with his second wife Madeleine and her son Louis. His father, Arnie Sidebottom, was also a cricketer, and played one Test match for England in 1985 against Australia, as well as playing professional football.

  1. ^ "Ryan Sidebottom to retire from cricket after the 2017 County Championship". Independent.co.uk. 22 February 2017.
  2. ^ Booth, Mel (22 February 2017). "Ryan Sidebottom aiming to retire on a high with Yorkshire". huddersfieldexaminer. Retrieved 13 October 2017.
  3. ^ "Ryan Sidebottom: Yorkshire's ex-England seamer to retire at end of the season". BBC Sport. 22 February 2017. Retrieved 13 October 2017.
  4. ^ "Ryan Sidebottom retires from international cricket". ESPNcricinfo. 20 September 2007. Retrieved 21 October 2008.
  5. ^ "Career Statistics". Ryan Sidebottom. Retrieved 26 June 2013.