Bill Athey

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Bill Athey
Personal information
Full name
Charles William Jeffrey Athey
Born (1957-09-27) 27 September 1957 (age 66)
Middlesbrough, North Riding of Yorkshire, England
Height5 ft 11 in (1.80 m)
BattingRight-handed
BowlingRight-arm medium
RoleBatsman
International information
National side
Test debut (cap 487)28 August 1980 v Australia
Last Test26 July 1988 v West Indies
ODI debut (cap 56)20 August 1980 v West Indies
Last ODI16 March 1988 v New Zealand
Career statistics
Competition Test ODI
Matches 23 31
Runs scored 919 848
Batting average 22.97 31.40
100s/50s 1/4 2/4
Top score 123 142*
Balls bowled 0 1
Wickets – 0
Bowling average – –
5 wickets in innings – –
10 wickets in match – –
Best bowling – –
Catches/stumpings 13/– 16/–
Medal record
Men's Cricket
Representing  England
ICC Cricket World Cup
Runner-up 1987 India and Pakistan
Source: CricInfo, 12 September 2010

Charles William Jeffrey Athey (born 27 September 1957)

England, and first-class cricket for Gloucestershire, Yorkshire[2] and Sussex; he also played a solitary one-day game for Worcestershire. His bulldog spirit was exemplified by the Union Jack tattooed on his arm. He played in 23 Test matches between 1980 and 1988, but scored more than 50 runs only five times in 41 innings. In 1990, Athey joined the rebel tour to South Africa.[1] He was a part of the English squad which finished as runners-up at the 1987 Cricket World Cup
.

Domestic career

He made his debut for his native Yorkshire in 1976, before moving to Gloucestershire in 1984.[2] He captained the side in 1989, and scored four hundreds in successive innings while there. In 1993, he moved to Sussex, and passed the increasingly rare landmark of 25,000 first-class runs when he made an unbeaten century against Somerset in 1997.

At the end of that season he joined Worcestershire as coach, having 'retired' from playing, though in spite of his status he did play several times for the Second XI and once (in 1999) in a

Minor Counties cricket for Suffolk
.

International career

He was a

Perth. In the 1987 summer, he was initially meant to revert to the middle order, but an injury to Broad meant that he opened in the first Test with Tim Robinson. However, in the second Test he reverted to number three, and made his only Test hundred at Lord's
.

He missed only one of twenty Test matches from 1986 to 1988.[1] Nevertheless, his 23 Test appearances were spread over eight years. He made his debut in the Centenary Test at Lord's in 1980, and eight years later appeared in the Bicentennial Test in Sydney, along with fellow survivors John Emburey and Mike Gatting.

Although never thought of as a one-day player, Athey hit two centuries in

final defeat against Australia at Calcutta in 1987
. He was suspended for playing in South Africa in 1990, but the suspension was remitted two years later when South Africa rejoined the world game.

After cricket

Athey now works at Dulwich College school in South London, as the First XI Cricket Coach. He also takes the Second XI football team, and is house master of Old Blew, one of the four Dulwich College boarding houses.

Athey also played football and was on the books of Brentford Reserves in the early 1980s.[3]

Personal life

Politically, Athey is a Conservative, and once appeared on stage at a Conservative Party conference in the 1980s alongside England teammate John Emburey.[4]

References

  1. ^
    ISBN 1-869833-21-X
    .
  2. ^
    ISBN 978-1-905080-85-4
    .
  3. ISBN 1 874427 57 7
    .
  4. ^ "SOL | Political football". BBC Sport. 30 October 2000. Retrieved 27 October 2020.
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