Darren Lehmann
Name: Darren Scott Lehmann
Born: 5 February 1970, Gawler, South Australia
Major Teams: Australia, South Australia, Yorkshire, Victoria.
Known As: Darren Lehmann
Batting Style: Left Hand Bat
Bowling Style: Slow Left Arm Orthodox
Test Debut: Australia v India at Bangalore, 3rd Test, 1997/98
Latest Test: Australia v England at Sydney, 5th Test, 1998/99
ODI Debut: Australia v Sri Lanka at Colombo (RPS), Singer World Series, 1996/97
Latest ODI: Australia v Pakistan at Brisbane, 3rd ODI, 2002
First-class Debut: South Australia v Victoria at Melbourne, 1987/88
Wisden Cricketer of the Year 2001
Profile:
A superbly talented but greatly underestimated cricketer, Darren Lehmann is a free scoring left-handed batsman, occasional left arm orthodox spin bowler and competent fielder. The current captain of South Australia, he is a stockily built player who treats spectators to an audacious mixture of swashbuckling aggression and deft finesse. From the time that he burst on to the first class scene in Australia as a seventeen year old in the 1987-88 season, Lehmann has built an imposing record; approaching the end of 1999-2000, he had amassed over 13,000 first class runs at an average that has consistently hovered well above fifty, risen to third position on the list of all-time leading run scorers in Australian domestic first class cricket, been an integral member of winning Sheffield Shield sides in 1990-91 and 1995-96, and set the record for the most number of runs scored in a single domestic one-day season in Australia. Nevertheless, whilst he has represented South Australia, Victoria (between 1990-91 and 1992-93) and Yorkshire (during the 1997 and 1998 County Championship seasons) with great distinction, Lehmann has curiously remained overlooked by Australia's selectors for the vast majority of his career. A record that includes close to fifty first class centuries has indeed yielded the tiny matter of five Tests; that he had played more first class cricket and scored more runs than any other Australian in history before appearing in a Test (in his case, at Bangalore in 1998) says much in itself about the repetitive extent to which he has been made to endure disappointment. He did prove to be a regular in Australia's one-day international team for a period in the late nineties but, even then, there was never a sense that there was anything particularly permanent about his presence. Notable highlights came in the form of centuries in Pakistan and the Caribbean, and the biggest of all probably arrived upon the hallowed turf at Lord's when he was the man to whom the glorious honour of hitting the winning 1999 World Cup runs fell. Otherwise, though, his penchant for crashing bowlers to all parts of a ground with an intent that borders on the contemptuous has remained limited to the confines of domestic cricket.
Statistics:
TESTS
(including 02/01/1999)
M I NO Runs HS
Ave SR 100 50 Ct St
Batting & Fielding 5 8 0 228
98 28.50 56.71 0 2 3
0
O M R W Ave
BBI 5 10 SR Econ
Bowling 17
4 45 2 22.50 1-6 0
0 51.0 2.64
ONE-DAY INTERNATIONALS
(including 19/06/2002)
M I NO Runs HS
Ave SR 100 50 Ct St
Batting & Fielding 78 71 14 2048 110* 35.92
81.95 2 11 16 0
O M R W Ave
BBI 5 10 SR Econ
Bowling 138.1 1
718 22 32.63 2-4 0 0
37.6 5.19
FIRST-CLASS
(1987/88 - 2002; last updated 22/06/2002)
M I NO Runs HS
Ave 100 50 Ct St
Batting & Fielding 204 347 23 18139 255 55.98
59 81 110 0
O M R W Ave
BBI 5 10 SR Econ
Bowling 813.3 169 2367 58
40.81 4-42 0 0 84.1 2.90
LIST A LIMITED OVERS
(1988/89 - 2002; last updated 22/06/2002)
M I NO Runs HS
Ave 100 50 Ct St
Batting & Fielding 267 255 41 9536 191 44.56
15 65 80 0
O R W Ave BBI 5 10
SR Econ
Bowling 533.1 2440 91
26.81 4-26 1 0 35.1 4.57
source - cricinfo