Ian Austin (cricketer)

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Ian Austin
Cricket information
BattingLeft-handed
BowlingRight-arm medium
Career statistics
Competition ODI FC LA
Matches 9 124 315
Runs scored 34 3,778 2,301
Batting average 6.79 27.98 18.11
100s/50s 0/0 2/20 0/4
Top score 11* 115* 97
Balls bowled 475 17,135 15,036
Wickets 6 262 363
Bowling average 60.00 30.35 27.80
5 wickets in innings 0 6 1
10 wickets in match 0 1 0
Best bowling 2/25 6/43 5/56
Catches/stumpings 0/– 35/– 53/–
Source: CricInfo, 15 May 2019

Ian David Austin (born 30 May 1966) is a retired English

Sunday League match for them the previous season) and remained with that county for his entire career, scoring 3,778 runs at 27.98 and taking 262 wickets at 30.35 with his medium-pace seamers in his 124 matches. He also took 363 wickets in List A cricket
.

Enormously popular with the Lancashire crowd thanks to his uncomplicated batting style and equally old-fashioned waistline, his most successful period came towards the end of his career. In 1998, he helped his county to both

Sri Lanka later in the summer. For these performances he was made one of 1999's Wisden Cricketers of the Year
.

Austin was selected for the

Kenya later in the same tournament. He spent the rest of his career at Lancashire, where his benefit
in 2000 raised £155,000. Austin played no first-class cricket after early June 2001, but continued to appear in some one-day games for another year.

A useful

Benson and Hedges Cup,[3] having achieved the latter in 1996.[4]

After some appearances for

Cumberland in 2002, and participating in the Lancashire League's Worsley Cup final the following year, Austin retired from first-class cricket at the end of the 2003 season. He returned to the Leagues playing with distinction for St Annes in the Northern Premier League, before returning to his boyhood club, Baxenden and helping them to the Ribblesdale League title, before retiring from all cricket at the end of the 2010 season.[5]

References

  1. ESPNCricinfo
    . Retrieved 22 May 2022.
  2. ESPNCricinfo
    . Retrieved 22 May 2022.
  3. ESPNCricinfo
    . Retrieved 22 May 2022.
  4. ESPNCricinfo
    . Retrieved 22 May 2022.
  5. ^ "Whatever Happened To The Unlikely Lads? #31: Ian Austin". 51allout. 29 May 2013.
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