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Jonathan Agnew
Jonathan Philip Agnew is an English cricket broadcaster and former professional cricketer. He was born in Macclesfield, Cheshire and educated at Uppingham School. He is nicknamed Aggers.
Agnew had a successful first-class career as a fast bowler for Leicestershire, taking 666 wickets at an average of 29.25 and winning three Test caps for England.
Since retiring as a player, Agnew has become a cricket journalist across a variety of media, but most notably on radio, as a Test Match Special commentator and as a BBC radio cricket correspondent. An on-air incident in tandem with Brian Johnston has been voted "the greatest piece of sporting commentary ever" in a BBC poll.
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Russel Arnold
Russel Premakumaran Arnold is a former Sri Lankan cricketer, now commentating on the 2011 series in England. Arnold made his Test debut against Pakistan in 1997 and his One day international debut against South Africa later in the year. Originally an opening batsmen, Arnold later moved down the batting order. He is most famous in the pearl island as a utility player making him ideally suitable for the limited over version of the game. However, when he started his career, he was seen primarily as a solid top order batsmen where he impressed against Australia during the AIWA cup of 1999, as well as the subsequent test series against them, where he batted at no. 3.
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Ian Botham
Sir Ian Terence Botham, OBE is a former England Test cricketer and Test team captain, and current cricket commentator. He was a genuine all-rounder with 14 centuries and 383 wickets in Test cricket, and remains well known by his nickname "Beefy". While a controversial player both on and off the field at times, Botham also held a number of Test cricket records, and still holds the record for the highest number of wickets taken by an England bowler.
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Chris Broad
Chris Broad is a former England Test cricketer and current Test official. An opening batsman, Broad had a 25-match long international Test career during which he hit six centuries, together with 34 One Day International matches with a respectable over 40 average. He is known largely for his feats during the 1986 Ashes series where he hit three centuries in consecutive Tests, and for his fiery demeanour at the crease.
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Alastair Cook
Alastair Nathan Cook, MBE is an English international cricket player. He is a left-handed opening batsman who currently plays county cricket for Essex and International cricket for England, where he is their ODI captain.
Debuting at 21 years of age, Cook went on to become the youngest Englishman to reach 1,000, 2,000, 3,000, 4,000 and 5,000 Test runs. Cook played a pivotal role in retaining the 2010-11 Ashes series, breaking records by scoring the second highest number of runs in a Test series by an Englishman, including his maiden first-class double-hundred and two further hundreds, and batting for over 35 hours during the series.
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Steven Finn
Steven Thomas Finn is an English cricketer. He is a right-handed batsman and a right-arm fast-medium bowler.
At the age of 16 Finn became Middlesex County Cricket Club's youngest debutant in first-class cricket. Standing 6'7" tall, Finn, a former county basketball player, made his England Test cricket debut in 2010 against Bangladesh and after an impressive first summer in the national team in which he took 32 wickets at an average of 23.21, he was named Best Emerging Player at the 2010 ICC Awards. Finn took 14 wickets during the 2010/2011 Ashes series in Australia, including his Test-best figures of 6-125.
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Angus Fraser
Angus Robert Charles Fraser is the current Managing Director of Cricket of Middlesex County Cricket Club, and a former English cricketer and journalist. Fraser played in forty six Test matches and forty two One Day Internationals for England. Perhaps his finest hour came in the Barbados Test match of the 1993/94 West Indies tour, when Fraser took 8-75 in the first innings to help set up a famous victory, West Indies' first defeat at Bridgetown for more than half a century. His career-best first-class cricket figures, 8-53, were also taken in a Test against the same opposition, this time at Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago in 1997/98.
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Mike Gatting
Michael William Gatting OBE is a former English cricketer, who played first-class cricket for Middlesex (1975–1998; captain 1983–1997) and for England from 1977 to 1995, captaining the national side in twenty-three Test matches between 1986 and 1988. He is currently the ECB Managing Director of Cricket Partnerships.
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Michael Holding
Michael Anthony Holding is a former West Indian cricketer. One of the fastest bowlers ever to play Test cricket, he was nicknamed 'Whispering Death' by umpires due to his quiet approach to the bowling crease. With one of the longest and most rhythmic run-ups in world cricket, his bowling was smooth and very fast, using his height (6 ft 3in) to generate large amounts of bounce and zip off the pitch. Now a Sky cricket commentator.
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Mark Nicholas
Mark Charles Jefford Nicholas is a cricket commentator and former player. He played for Hampshire from 1978 to 1995, captaining them from 1985 to his retirement. A middle-order batsman and occasional medium-pace bowler, Nicholas can be considered one of his generation's better players never to play a Test for England. Since his retirement as a player, he has worked in broadcasting, first as a commentator for Sky Sports, and 1999-2005 as the anchorman for Channel 4's cricket coverage. He was approached by Five to cover England cricket highlights from 2006–present, the program being named "Cricket on Five". He commentates on the program with former cricketer and Channel 4 cricket commentator Geoffrey Boycott and former Channel 4 cricket analyst Simon Hughes.
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