Chris Tremlett

Chris Tremlett

Personal information
Full name	Christopher Timothy Tremlett
Born	2 September 1981 (1981-09-02) (age 30) Southampton, Hampshire, England
Nickname	Twiggy, Goober
Height	6 ft 8 in (2.03 m)
Batting style	Right-handed
Bowling style	Right arm Fast Medium
Role	Bowler
Relations	Tim Tremlett (father) Maurice Tremlett (grandfather)
International information
National side	England
Test debut (cap 636)	19 July 2007 v India
Last Test	25 July 2011 v India
ODI debut (cap 189)	21 June 2005 v Bangladesh
Last ODI	26 March 2011 v Sri Lanka
ODI shirt no.	33
Domestic team information
Years	Team
2010–present	Surrey (squad no. 33)
2000–2009	Hampshire (squad no. 22)
2000	Hampshire Cricket Board
Career statistics
Competition	Test	ODI	FC	LA
Matches	10	15	116	125
Runs scored	97	50	1,978	521
Batting average	13.85	7.14	18.14	10.01
100s/50s	0/0	0/0	0/7	0/0
Top score	25*	19*	64	38*
Balls bowled	2,560	784	20,220	5,787
Wickets	49	15	386	170
Bowling average	25.67	47.00	27.48	27.75
5 wickets in innings	2	0	9	0
10 wickets in match	0	n/a	0	n/a
Best bowling	6/48	4/32	6/44	4/25
Catches/stumpings	4/–	4/–	32/–	26/–
Source: CricketArchive, 29 July 2011

Christopher Timothy "Chris" Tremlett (born 2 September 1981) is an English cricketer who plays for Surrey County Cricket Club. He is 6 ft 8 in (2.04 m) tall and is a fast bowler able to extract bounce on most surfaces. He is a competent number 8 or 9 batsman, with seven first-class fifties to his name. He has a strong arm from the deep.

Domestic career and early England years

Tremlett took a wicket with his first ball in first-class cricket against New Zealand A in 2000, dismissing Mark Richardson. He went to India with the Under-19s in 2000/01, and was one of the first cricketers to attend the ECB Academy the following year.

In 2005 he made his England debut in a One Day International against Bangladesh at Trent Bridge, Nottingham, taking 4–32 and missing out on a hat-trick only by a freak occurrence: the hat-trick ball fell onto the top of Mohammad Ashraful's stumps, but did not dislodge a bail. To demonstrate his continuing progress Tremlett was regularly selected in England's 12 for the Ashes Tests later in 2005 but due to the success and consistency of the first choice bowlers he did not make his debut. He was also selected for the 2005–06 season tour to Pakistan, but had to withdraw because of injury. After undergoing surgery to his right knee and hip, he also missed the tour to India.^[1]

Tremlett (second from left) was part of the Hampshire team that won the 2009 Friends Provident Trophy final.

Tremlett was in and out of the Hampshire team in April and May, playing two Championship matches against Sussex and Warwickshire, and taking four wickets, and was then diagnosed with a side strain.^[2] He returned to take six wickets in seven matches in Hampshire's Twenty20 Cup campaign,^[3] and featured in four more Championship matches, to bring his tally for the season to 30 wickets at a bowling average of 21.70, the lowest at the club,^[4] including a spell of six for 89 in a two-wicket loss to Warwickshire.^[5]

Tremlett won the NBC Denis Compton Award in both 2000 and 2001. His grandfather Maurice played three times for England in the 1940s and also for Somerset, while his father Tim turned a playing career into a coaching job at Hampshire, and has coached his son during Chris's entire professional career.

Tremlett joined Surrey for the 2010 season after struggling with injury and form in 2009 at Hampshire, with pitches at the Rose Bowl not suited to Tremlett's bowling style.

Test career

Chris Tremlett bowls Michael Beer to complete England's 3–1 Ashes victory

After cutting down his run up and increasing his pace through work with Hampshire team mates Shane Warne and Stuart Clark, Tremlett came back into Test contention in 2007 after a rash of injuries to established bowlers. He played for the England Lions against India in their final warm up game before the first Test and finally made his Test début at Lords against India on 19 July 2007 after Matthew Hoggard was ruled out with a back complaint. His grandfather having played Test cricket, Chris Tremlett became the first grandson of a Test cricketer to make a Test debut without his father having also played Tests. He is also the first Hampshire born Hampshire county cricketer to play a Test in England. He made a pair on debut, but took 4 wickets and during his second match, he took 3 wickets in each innings, and finished with figures of 3/12 as India cruised to a 7-wicket victory needing just 73 to win.

He was selected for the squad for the 2010 Ashes tour to Australia. He was not selected to play in either of the first two tests, but in the first day of the third test, held at Perth, he took 3 wickets for 63 runs, troubling the Australian top order with the steepling bounce allowed for by the WACA surface. He followed that up with 5 for 87 in the Australian second innings. On the first day of the fourth test, the Boxing Day Test held at the MCG, he took 4 for 26 as England skittled Australia out for 98 runs. He took the last wicket in the last test, and with it, England won the series.

During the summer of 2011, in the third match against Sri Lanka, he took his best Test figures of 6/48 as England bowled out Sri Lanka for 184. With 15 dismissals, Tremlett finished as the leading wicket-taker in the series on either side.^[6] India toured in July for four Tests, five ODIs, and a T20I. Selected for the opening match of the Test series, Tremlett took 4/124 in England's victory, extracting bounce from the Lord's pitch to trouble the Indian batsmen. However, he was hampered by injury with a hamstring problem on the fourth day of the first Test and a back spasm during pre-match training ahead of the second Test.^[7][8] The back injury prevented Tremlett from playing any further part in the series.^[9] In September, for the first time Tremlett was awarded one of 13 central contracts with the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) until September 2012.^[10]

References

1. ^ Tremlett ruled out of India tour, from BBC, retrieved 31 August 2006
2. ^ Hampshire back Tremlett potential, from BBC, retrieved 31 August 2006
3. ^ Bowling for Hampshire – Twenty20 Cup 2006, from CricketArchive, retrieved 31 August 2006
4. ^ Bowling for Hampshire – Liverpool Victoria County Championship 2006, from CricketArchive, retrieved 31 August 2006
5. ^ Cricinfo – Hampshire v Warwickshire at Southampton, 16–19 Aug 2006, from Cricinfo, retrieved 31 August 2006
6. ^ Records / Sri Lanka in England Test Series, 2011 / Most wickets, Cricinfo, http://stats.espncricinfo.com/ci/engine/records/bowling/most_wickets_career.html?id=6109;type=series, retrieved 2011-08-09 
7. ^ McGlashan, Andrew (28 July 2011), England sweat on Tremlett fitness, ESPNcricinfo, http://www.espncricinfo.com/england-v-india-2011/content/story/525099.html, retrieved 9 August 2011 
8. ^ Tremlett ruled out of third Test, ESPNcricinfo, 9 August 2011, http://www.espncricinfo.com/england-v-india-2011/content/current/story/526735.html, retrieved 9 August 2011 
9. ^ McGlashan, Andrew (4 September 2011), Not sure KP would get in team – Adams, Cricinfo, http://www.espncricinfo.com/county-cricket-2011/content/story/531223.html, retrieved 2011-09-13 
10. ^ Tim Bresnan, Eoin Morgan and Chris Tremlett given ECB contracts, BBC Sport, 13 September 2011, http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/cricket/14899602.stm, retrieved 2011-09-13 

External links

• Player profile: Chris Tremlett from ESPNcricinfo
• Interview by www.world-a-team.net with Chris Tremlett

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Name	Tremlett, Chris
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Date of birth	2 September 1981
Place of birth	Southampton
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