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Full name Norman Gifford
Born March 30, 1940, Ulverston, Lancashire
Current age 68 years 195 days
Major teams England,Warwickshire,Worcestershire
Batting style Left-hand bat
Bowling style Slow left-arm orthodox
Other Coach
Batting and fielding averages
Mat
Inns
NO
Runs
HS
Ave
BF
SR
100
50
4s
6s
Ct
St
Tests
15
20
9
179
25*
16.27
0
0
0
8
0
ODIs
2
1
0
0
0
0.00
8
0.00
0
0
0
0
1
0
First-class
710
805
263
7048
89
13.00
0
3
319
0
List A
397
218
85
1478
38
11.11
0
0
96
0
Bowling averages
Mat
Inns
Balls
Runs
Wkts
BBI
BBM
Ave
Econ
SR
4w
5w
10
Tests
15
21
3084
1026
33
5/55
8/127
31.09
1.99
93.4
2
1
0
ODIs
2
2
120
50
4
4/23
4/23
12.50
2.50
30.0
1
0
0
First-class
710
128412
48731
2068
8/28
23.56
2.27
62.0
93
14
List A
397
17601
11525
443
6/8
6/8
26.01
3.92
39.7
11
5
0
Career statistics
Test debut
England v Australia at Lord's, Jun 18-23, 1964 scorecard
Last Test
England v New Zealand at Lord's, Jun 21-26, 1973 scorecard
Test statistics
ODI debut
Australia v England at Sharjah, Mar 24, 1985 scorecard
Last ODI
England v Pakistan at Sharjah, Mar 26, 1985 scorecard
ODI statistics
First-class span
1960 - 1988
List A span
1963 - 1988
Profile
Norman Gifford came along as a left-arm spinner at an unfortunate time. When he started, Tony Lock's international career still had seven years to run, while Derek Underwood, five years Gifford's junior, was soon to stake an irresistible challenge of his own. Underwood and Gifford were sufficiently dissimilar - Gifford was much slower and more low-slung - for them to play two Tests side by side, on the subcontinent in 1972-73, but Underwood's artistry restricted Gifford, a good-natured apple-cheeked Lancastrian, to 15 Tests, most of them while Ray Illingworth was captain. Gifford captained England in a one-day series in Sharjah in 1985 at the age of 44. John Thicknesse
