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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
St
First-class
161
266
23
9656
315
39.73
23
48
74
0
List A
86
82
7
2162
102*
28.82
1
16
18
0
Twenty20
18
15
0
288
56
19.20
251
114.74
0
1
34
5
5
0
Bowling averages
Mat
Inns
Balls
Runs
Wkts
BBI
BBM
Ave
Econ
SR
4w
5w
10
First-class
161
8643
4600
100
7/222
46.00
3.19
86.4
2
0
List A
86
1096
862
25
4/35
4/35
34.48
4.71
43.8
1
0
0
Twenty20
18
5
75
106
5
2/16
2/16
21.20
8.48
15.0
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 CricInfo staff
