Mike Selvey

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Mike Selvey
Personal information
Full name
Michael Walter William Selvey
Born (1948-04-25) 25 April 1948 (age 75)
Chiswick, Middlesex, England
BattingRight-handed
BowlingRight-arm fast-medium
International information
National side
Test debut8 July 1976 v West Indies
Last Test11 February 1977 v India
Career statistics
Competition Tests FC LA
Matches 3 278 267
Runs scored 15 2,405 840
Batting average 7.50 12.65 10.24
100s/50s 0/0 0/4 0/0
Top score 5* 67 38*
Balls bowled 492 45,474 12,698
Wickets 6 772 332
Bowling average 57.16 26.66 22.12
5 wickets in innings 0 38 2
10 wickets in match 0 4 0
Best bowling 4/41 7/20 5/18
Catches/stumpings 1/– 79/– 50/–
Source: CricInfo, 8 April 2023

Michael Walter William Selvey (born 25 April 1948),[1] known as Mike Selvey, is an English former Test and county cricketer, and now a cricket writer and commentator.

Selvey played in three Tests for England in 1976 and 1977. His county cricket commitments included service to Surrey, Middlesex and Glamorgan.[1]

He served as the 25th President of Middlesex (2019–2023).[2]

Life and career

Selvey was educated at Honeywell Primary School, Battersea Grammar School, the University of Manchester and Emmanuel College, Cambridge.[3] He played cricket for Surrey and Cambridge University before joining Middlesex in 1972, where he spent the majority of his playing career.

Selvey made a dramatic debut in

Old Trafford in 1976, when he opened the bowling and took the wickets of Roy Fredericks, Viv Richards and Alvin Kallicharran for only six runs in his first 20 balls.[1] He took 4 for 41 in that innings
, and 6 for 152 in the match, but still ended on the losing side as England were beaten by 425 runs.

He only played two more Tests and failed to take a single wicket in either of them,[1] in part due to Alan Knott dropping a routine chance from Roy Fredericks in Selvey's second test at the Oval in the same year; the West Indies went on to make 687 as England were blunted by Viv Richards' 291.[4]

Despite playing no more international cricket after 1977, Selvey was a key part of a Middlesex attack that won the

Gillette Cups, in 1977[5]
(when his figures were 12–4–22–2) and in 1980 in a London derby final against Surrey, when he again bowled a tight spell (12-5-17-2) to restrict the opposition. Selvey took 101 first-class wickets for Middlesex in the 1978 season, a feat that has not been matched by any Middlesex fast bowler since.

Selvey features in

Vince van der Bijl
bowled downhill with the wind behind them.

In 1983 he moved to Glamorgan as captain, but persistent injuries forced him to retire after only a season and a half.[1]

Shortly after his retirement from playing cricket, Selvey became cricket correspondent of The Guardian newspaper.[1] He retired on 23 September 2016 after 31 years in the role.

He also joined BBC Radio's Test Match Special as a summariser, beginning with England's 1984 tour to India; he continued with this role until being dropped from the team in 2008. Selvey has since become a regular summariser and guest on Talksport.

Publications

References

  1. ^
    ISBN 1-869833-21-X
    .
  2. ^ "Board of Directors".
  3. ^ SELVEY, Michael Walter William, Who's Who 2017, A & C Black, 2017 (online edition, Oxford University Press, 2016)
  4. ^ "For cricket, read life: Andrew Strauss admits his 'sliding door' moment". The Guardian. London.
  5. ^ "The Home of CricketArchive".

External links

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