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Full name Clairmonte Christopher Lewis
Born February 14, 1968, Georgetown, Demerara, Guyana
Current age 40 years 242 days
Major teams England,Leicestershire,Nottinghamshire,Surrey
Nickname Carl
Batting style Right-hand bat
Bowling style Right-arm fast-medium
Height
6 ft 2 in
Education Willesden High School
Batting and fielding averages
Mat
Inns
NO
Runs
HS
Ave
BF
SR
100
50
4s
6s
Ct
St
Tests
32
51
3
1105
117
23.02
2421
45.64
1
4
137
6
25
0
ODIs
53
40
14
374
33
14.38
459
81.48
0
0
25
6
20
0
First-class
189
275
34
7406
247
30.73
9
34
154
0
List A
266
217
56
3959
116*
24.59
1
14
104
0
Twenty20
1
1
0
2
2
2.00
4
50.00
0
0
0
0
0
0
Bowling averages
Mat
Inns
Balls
Runs
Wkts
BBI
BBM
Ave
Econ
SR
4w
5w
10
Tests
32
55
6852
3490
93
6/111
7/114
37.52
3.05
73.6
3
3
0
ODIs
53
49
2625
1942
66
4/30
4/30
29.42
4.43
39.7
4
0
0
First-class
189
32004
16225
543
6/22
29.88
3.04
58.9
20
3
List A
266
11846
8232
312
5/19
5/19
26.38
4.16
37.9
10
2
0
Twenty20
1
1
12
29
0
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14.50
-
0
0
0
Career statistics
Test debut
England v New Zealand at Birmingham, Jul 5-10, 1990 scorecard
Last Test
England v Pakistan at The Oval, Aug 22-26, 1996 scorecard
Test statistics
ODI debut
West Indies v England at Port of Spain, Feb 14, 1990 scorecard
Last ODI
England v South Africa at Manchester, May 23, 1998 scorecard
ODI statistics
First-class span
1987 - 2000
List A debut
1987
Last List A
Surrey v Middlesex at The Oval, Apr 20, 2008 scorecard
Only Twenty20
Surrey v Essex at The Oval, Jun 11, 2008 scorecard
Profile
When he wasn't posing for a magazine in his underwear, shaving his head and getting sunstroke, or turning up late for practice because of a "flat tyre", Lewis could touch the heights few in the county game can reach. His fast-medium seamers were propelled by an athletic, high action, his batting was full of exquisite onside drives and fierce cuts, and his fielding could be sensational. But, apart from some excellent bowling in the 1992 World Cup, he rarely delivered when England needed him most, and his many critics got stuck in. He started at Leicestershire, then had spells at Notts and Surrey, where he helped win the Sunday League in 1996 and the B&H in '97, before returning to Grace Road. All the time he was in and out of the Test side, despite going on six consecutive tours and hitting a hundred in a lost cause at Madras in 1992-93. But Lewis was never fully accepted by his peers, and he was ostracised further when, in 1999, it emerged that he had passed on the names of three England cricketers allegedly involved in match-fixing to the ECB. He drifted out of the game an unfulfilled talent. He returned to Surrey in 2008, aged 40, when he signed a surprise pay-as-you-play contract for the Twenty20 Cup but it didn't prove a success as injury brought it to an early end.
Lawrence Booth
