Paul Strang
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Full name | Paul Andrew Strang | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born | leg break | 28 July 1970|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Role | All-rounder | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Relations | Bryan Strang (brother) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Test debut (cap 23) | 26 October 1994 v Sri Lanka | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Last Test | 14 September 2001 v South Africa | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
ODI debut (cap 38) | 2 December 1994 v Australia | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Last ODI | 26 November 2001 v Bangladesh | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Years | Team | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
1993/94–1995/96 | Mashonaland Country Districts | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
1994/95–2000/01 | Mashonaland | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
1997 | Kent | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
1998 | Nottinghamshire | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
1999/00 | CFX Academy | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
2001/02–2003/04 | Manicaland | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Source: CricInfo, 19 August 2012 |
Paul Andrew Strang (born 28 July 1970) is a Zimbabwean cricket coach and former international player. A
leg-spinning all-rounder, he played in 24 Test matches and 95 One Day Internationals for Zimbabwe between 1994 and 2001. He played Test cricket alongside his brother, Bryan Strang; their father, Ronald Strang, was a first-class umpire
and was TV umpire for two of Zimbabwe's Test matches in 1994/5.
Strang has since moved into coaching, joining the
Auckland Aces as a high performance coach in 2008,[1] and becoming the full-time coach soon afterwards.[2]
Domestic career
He played two seasons of county cricket as an overseas player, firstly for Kent County Cricket Club in 1997 and then for Nottinghamshire in 1998.
International career
Strang studied at the
Kenya
(with Strang taking 5 wickets) but losing its other 4 matches.
Strang scored his only Test century in the 1st innings of the 1st Test against Pakistan at Sheikhupura in 1996–7, batting at No. 8, including a stand of 87 with his brother for the 9th wicket. He also took 5 wickets in Pakistan's 1st innings in the same match. Strang's achievement was overshadowed by a double century, 257 not out, scored by Wasim Akram, and the match was drawn.[3]
He played in the
Zimbabwean in an innings in Test cricket (the best match figures belong to Adam Huckle
). He only played in three further Tests, with his international career curtailed in 2000 by a chronic injury to the muscles of his right hand.
Records
- Strang is the only Zimbabwean Test cricketer to take ten wickets in a match and still end up on the losing side of a test match.[5]
References
- ^ "Strang joins Auckland as high performance coach". ESPNcricinfo. Retrieved 15 April 2008.
- ^ "Paul Strang fills in as Auckland coach". ESPNcricinfo. Retrieved 26 February 2008.
- ^ "1st Test, Zimbabwe tour of Pakistan at Sheikhupura, Oct 17-21 1996 | Match Summary | ESPNCricinfo". ESPNcricinfo. Retrieved 8 January 2018.
- ^ "1st Test, New Zealand tour of Zimbabwe at Bulawayo, Sep 12-16 2000 | Match Summary | ESPNCricinfo". ESPNcricinfo. Retrieved 8 January 2018.
- ^ "Bowling records | Test matches | Cricinfo Statsguru | ESPN Cricinfo". ESPNcricinfo. Retrieved 8 January 2018.