Everything about Andy Flower totally explained
Andrew "Andy" Flower (born
28 April,
1968 in
Cape Town,
South Africa) was an international
cricketer for
Zimbabwe and now the assistant coach of
England. He played most of his career alongside his younger brother
Grant Flower. Flower is considered to be one of the best wicket-keeper batsmen, alongside players such as Australian
Adam Gilchrist and Sri Lanka's
Kumar Sangakkara. He made his international debut in a
One Day International against
Sri Lanka at
New Plymouth,
New Zealand in the
1992 Cricket World Cup. He was Zimbabwe's
wicket-keeper for over 10 years and, according to official statistics, by far the finest
batsman the country has ever fielded. A good player of spin, he made 540 runs in a Test series against India in 2000/01. This tally came in just four innings and he was only dismissed twice.
Nearing the end of his career, Flower achieved international recognition (along with team mate
Henry Olonga) in
2003 by wearing a black armband in a
Cricket World Cup match to protest against the policies of Zimbabwe's government, led by
Robert Mugabe. He and Olonga released a statement on
10 February, stating in part:
Zimbabwean history, and is now arguably a significant part of that subject. He later played an English
county cricket season for
Essex and an Australian domestic season for
South Australia.
Flower played 63
Test matches for Zimbabwe, scoring 4,794 runs at an average of 51.54 and taking 151 catches and 9 stumpings, and 213 one-day internationals, scoring 6,786 runs at an average of 35.34 and taking 141 catches and 32 stumpings. He holds the Zimbawean records for the most Test career runs, the highest Test batting average, and most ODI career runs. He is the only Zimbabwean in the ICC's
Top 100 All-time Test Batting rankings
at Number 24, putting him in the company of Brian Lara (ranked 19), Sachin Tendulkar (20), Steve Waugh (23) and Rahul Dravid (25 in September 2006).
On
7 May 2007 Andy was appointed Assistant Coach of the
England team replacing
Matthew Maynard. Andy Flower will join up with
Peter Moores and the rest of the squad for the first test match against the
West Indies at
Lord's on
17 May 2007. Upon his appointment to this role with the
ECB, Flower, having not played yet this season due to injury, ended his playing spell at
Essex, bringing his playing career to a close. This has left him stranded on 49 first class centuries, so whether he'll still play the occasional first class match for
M.C.C. in order to try to reach his landmark remains to be seen.
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