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	Paul Collingwood (c)

	Tim Ambrose (wk)

	James Anderson

	Ian Bell

	Ravi Bopara

	Stuart Broad

	Alastair Cook

	Dimitri Mascarenhas

	Phil Mustard (wk)

	Kevin Pietersen

	Owais Shah

	Ryan Sidebottom

	Graeme Swann

	James Tredwell

	Chris Tremlett

	Luke Wright

Tim Ambrose

England

Player profile

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