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Full name Mark Anant Wagh
Born October 20, 1976, Birmingham, Warwickshire
Current age 31 years 210 days
Major teams Mashonaland A, Oxford University, Warwickshire
Nickname Waggy
Batting style Right-hand bat
Bowling style Right-arm offbreak
Height 6 ft 2 in
Education King Edward's School, Birmingham. Oxford University

Batting and fielding averages
	Mat	Inns	NO	Runs	HS	Ave	BF	SR	100	50	4s	6s	Ct
First-class	161	266	23	9656	315	39.73			23	48			74
List A	86	82	7	2162	102*	28.82			1	16			18
Twenty20	18	15	0	288	56	19.20	251	114.74	0	1	34	5	5

Bowling averages
	Mat	Inns	Balls	Runs	Wkts	BBI	BBM	Ave	Econ	SR	4w	5w
First-class	161		8643	4600	100	7/222		46.00	3.19	86.4		2
List A	86		1096	862	25	4/35	4/35	34.48	4.71	43.8	1	0
Twenty20	18	5	75	106	5	2/16	2/16	21.20	8.48	15.0	0	0

Career statistics
First-class debut	1996
Last First-class	Nottinghamshire v Lancashire at Nottingham, May 14-16, 2008 scorecard
List A debut	1996
Last List A	Nottinghamshire v Leicestershire at Nottingham, May 11, 2008 scorecard
Twenty20 debut	Northamptonshire v Warwickshire at Northampton, Jun 24, 2003 scorecard
Last Twenty20	Yorkshire v Nottinghamshire at Leeds, Jul 4, 2007 scorecard

Profile

A patient, wristy opening batsman, and a useful offspinner, Mark Wagh made his debut for Warwickshire, the county of his birth, in 1998. Over the next six years he became one of the county's most consistent batsmen, twice scoring over 1000 runs in a first-class season. Wagh was banned from bowling by the ECB in 2000 after being called for throwing towards the end of the season, but came back well in 2001 after remodelling his action over the winter. He was the surprise match-winner in Warwickshire's game against Nottinghamshire at Edgbaston, taking three wickets in his first two overs to set up a 139-run victory. But it is batting that has always been his main strength, and in the same season he smashed a mammoth 315, which at the time was the second highest score (after Brian Lara's 501*) by a Warwickshire batsman. Just four days after that effort, he agreed the terms for a three-year extension to his county contract, and later in the year went on the ECB National Academy tour to Australia. In 2004 he was rewarded for his outstanding form in domestic cricket with a call-up to England's preliminary squad for the ICC Champions Trophy. But he has not pushed on from that point and has suffered a serious run of injuries, missing large chunks of cricket and preventing him from bowling. He was dropped from the first-team at the start of the 2006 season, and although he soon re-established himself he did not score the runs to suggest a turning point had been reached in his career and it was not unduly surprising when Warwickshire agreed to release him from his contact so he could move to Nottinghamshire
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Aug 29, 2007

Mark Wagh sweeps as Nottinghamshire make a solid start at Lord's
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Jun 3, 2007

Mark Wagh cuts out
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Apr 16, 2007

Mark Wagh portrait
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