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Full name Dominic Gerald Cork
Born August 7, 1971, Newcastle-under-Lyme, Staffordshire
Current age 36 years 352 days
Major teams England, Derbyshire, Lancashire
Nickname Corky
Batting style Right-hand bat
Bowling style Right-arm fast-medium
Height 6 ft 2 in
Education St Joseph's College, Stoke-on-Trent; Newcastle College

Batting and fielding averages

Mat

Inns

Runs

Ave

100

Tests

864

18.00

2092

41.30

111

ODIs

180

31*

10.00

271

66.42

First-class

281

411

8992

200*

25.25

203

List A

281

219

3995

21.36

105

Twenty20

304

12.66

267

113.85

Bowling averages

Mat

Inns

Balls

Runs

Wkts

BBI

BBM

Ave

Econ

Tests

7678

3906

131

7/43

9/162

29.81

3.05

58.6

ODIs

1772

1368

3/27

33.36

4.63

43.2

First-class

281

47838

23585

885

9/43

26.64

2.95

54.0

List A

281

13358

9452

343

6/21

27.55

4.24

38.9

Twenty20

582

698

4/16

23.26

7.19

19.4

Career statistics

Test debut

England v West Indies at Lord's, Jun 22-26, 1995 scorecard

Last Test

England v India at The Oval, Sep 5-9, 2002 scorecard

Test statistics

ODI debut

England v Pakistan at Manchester, Aug 24, 1992 scorecard

Last ODI

England v India at Colombo (RPS), Sep 22, 2002 scorecard

ODI statistics

First-class debut

1990

Last First-class

Hampshire v Lancashire at Southampton, Jul 11-14, 2008 scorecard

List A debut

1991

Last List A

Warwickshire v Lancashire at Birmingham, Sep 1, 2007 scorecard

Twenty20 debut

Yorkshire v Derbyshire at Leeds, Jun 14, 2003 scorecard

Last Twenty20

Middlesex v Lancashire at The Oval, Jul 8, 2008 scorecard

Dominic Cork, desperate to keep up with his two elder cricket-playing brothers, grew up to be a showman. The bigger the stage, the better he has performed - provided the stage is in England, for he has had little success abroad except in South Africa in 1995-96. Since then he has lost the sting in his outswinger and become a seam-and-swing bowler for English conditions, bowling wicket to wicket, and launching into well-choreographed appeals for LBW. On the biggest stage in England, at Lord's, Cork took his best Test bowling figures of 7 for 43 in 1995, and played his most famous innings, in 2000, on both occasions against West Indies. His strength was his ability to move the ball late, although he suffered when he tried to bowl too fast, while his batting always promised more than it delivered. The great promise he showed in those two series against West Indies was undermined by injury and off-the-field personal problems which prevented him ever becoming a fixture in the side. There were also accusations that he didn't always try as hard as he might - Geoff Boycott described him as a "show pony" during the 1996-97 tour of New Zealand. He was handed the captaincy of Derbyshire in 1999, and while he initially responded to a far from easy task with enthusiasm, reports of disharmony began to emerge and Cork appeared increasingly at odds with the management It culminated in Cork buying his way out of his contract at the end of the 2003 season, and he subsequently joined Lancashire. Although he tried hard, he failed to really hit the heights expected of him during his first season at his new county, but played a vital role in Lancashire's promotion back to division one in 2005 with 43 wickets and 540 runs. He was never far away from the action during Lancashire's push for trophies and was involved in two near misses. The first came against Sussex in the 2006 C&G final and he was last-man out as Lancashire nearly pulled off an extraordinary run chase at the end of the 2007 Championship campaign.
Cricinfo staff

Jul 8, 2008

Dominic Cork gives Ed Joyce a send-off © Getty Images

Jun 10, 2008

Dominic Cork 2008 © Getty Images

May 31, 2008

Dominic Cork dives to catch Richard Pyrah © Getty Images

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