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Full name Allan Joseph Lamb
Born June 20, 1954, Langebaanweg, Cape Province, South Africa
Current age 53 years 332 days
Major teams England,Northamptonshire,Orange Free State,Western Province
Nickname Legga, Lambie
Batting style Right-hand bat
Bowling style Right-arm medium
Height
5 ft 8 in
Education Wynberg Boys High School
Batting and fielding averages
Mat
Inns
NO
Runs
HS
Ave
BF
SR
100
50
4s
6s
Ct
St
Tests
79
139
10
4656
142
36.09
9058
51.40
14
18
618
20
75
0
ODIs
122
118
16
4010
118
39.31
5308
75.54
4
26
328
30
31
0
First-class
467
772
108
32502
294
48.94
89
166
371
0
List A
484
463
63
15658
132*
39.14
19
98
135
0
Bowling averages
Mat
Inns
Balls
Runs
Wkts
BBI
BBM
Ave
Econ
SR
4w
5w
10
Tests
79
6
30
23
1
1/6
1/6
23.00
4.60
30.0
0
0
0
ODIs
122
1
6
3
0
-
-
-
3.00
-
0
0
0
First-class
467
305
199
8
2/29
24.87
3.91
38.1
0
0
List A
484
32
29
2
1/4
1/4
14.50
5.43
16.0
0
0
0
Career statistics
Test debut
England v India at Lord's, Jun 10-15, 1982 scorecard
Last Test
England v Pakistan at Lord's, Jun 18-21, 1992 scorecard
England v Pakistan at Manchester, Aug 24, 1992 scorecard
ODI statistics
First-class span
1972 - 1995
List A span
1972/73 - 1995
Profile
Some England cricketers are born; there was no destiny in Allan Lamb's career. Signed from Western Province as an unknown by Northamptonshire as their overseas player in 1978, he was chugging along nicely when Ken Turner, their secretary, persuaded him that South Africa were years away from returning to Test cricket and that he should invoke his English-born parents to play for England. He never lost his accent nor his attitudes: there was always the hint of the colonial chancer about him -- but Lamb was to be a fixture of the England middle order for the next decade. Small, stocky, aggressive, he had a correct technique, power in his shots and a gift for needling the bowlers. Lamb captained England in three Tests, hopelessly, but in 1995 he came close to taking Northamptonshire to their first Championship, strutting round the county grounds like Napoleon. Matthew Engel
