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
Height	1.96 m (6 ft 5 in)
Batting	Left-handed
Bowling	Left-arm fast-medium
Role	Bowler
Relations	Arnie Sidebottom (father)
International information
National side	England (2001–2010)
Test debut (cap 604)	17 May 2001 v Pakistan
Last Test	14 January 2010 v South Africa
ODI debut (cap 168)	7 October 2001 v Zimbabwe
Last ODI	28 February 2010 v Bangladesh
ODI shirt no.	18
Domestic team information
Years	Team
1997–2003	Yorkshire
2003–2010	Nottinghamshire
2011–2017	Yorkshire (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.