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Full name Timothy Raymond Ambrose
Born December 1, 1982, Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia
Current age 25 years 168 days
Major teams Sussex,Warwickshire
Nickname Freak
Batting style Right-hand bat
Fielding position Wicketkeeper
Height
5 ft 7 in
Education Merewether Selective High, NSW
Batting and fielding averages
Mat
Inns
NO
Runs
HS
Ave
BF
SR
100
50
4s
6s
Ct
St
Tests
3
6
0
204
102
34.00
433
47.11
1
1
27
2
11
0
First-class
79
125
11
4100
251*
35.96
8042
50.98
6
23
166
14
List A
79
73
10
1901
135
30.17
2599
73.14
2
8
88
12
Twenty20
20
17
4
435
77
33.46
331
131.41
0
2
37
11
11
7
Bowling averages
Mat
Inns
Balls
Runs
Wkts
BBI
BBM
Ave
Econ
SR
4w
5w
10
Tests
3
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
First-class
79
6
1
0
-
-
-
1.00
-
0
0
0
List A
79
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
Twenty20
20
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
Career statistics
Test debut
New Zealand v England at Hamilton, Mar 5-9, 2008 scorecard
Last Test
New Zealand v England at Napier, Mar 22-26, 2008 scorecard
Test statistics
First-class debut
2001
Last First-class
Derbyshire v Warwickshire at Derby, May 7-10, 2008 scorecard
List A debut
2001
Last List A
Warwickshire v Leicestershire at Birmingham, May 5, 2008 scorecard
Twenty20 debut
Hampshire v Sussex at Southampton, Jun 13, 2003 scorecard
Last Twenty20
Warwickshire v Lancashire at Birmingham, Jul 18, 2007 scorecard
Profile
Born in New South Wales, Ambrose started out at Sussex and made a positive impression - especially with his hard-hitting batting. However, with Matt Prior on the books he realised regular first-team cricket, and importantly keeping opportunities, would be limited and he moved to Warwickshire at the start of the 2006 season. He had a stop-start beginning to life at Edgbaston as injury restricted his early-season chances in 2006, but in the second half of the summer he gave plenty of examples of his batting ability and he blossomed in fine style during 2007. He was so prolific there was talk of him being an outside bet for the Test and one-day sides - but his former team-mate, Prior, got the nod. However, Prior's disappointing tour of Sri Lanka led to his axing in early 2008 and Ambrose was called up as his replacement for England's series against New Zealand. He started promisingly, too; his counterattacking 102 in the second Test in Wellington turned England's fortunes around and helped swing the series their way. Off the pitch, he is a useful guitarist and nicknamed 'freak' due to everything apparently coming naturally to him. Andrew McGlashan April 2008
