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Squad


	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 164 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