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Andrew Strauss OBE, DCL
Biography
The Johannesburg-born Andrew John Strauss was educated at Radley and Durham University. He is a commanding left-handed opening batsman who captained the County for two years following Angus Fraser’s retirement. He has an excellent technique and temperament, which has served him well, during his successful introduction to Test cricket.
On his Test debut, he became the second Englishman to score a Test century on debut at Lord’s and he came close to setting a new record with a century in the second innings. He scored a debut century in his first three Test series.
As one of the most successful England Test captains, he has led his country to Ashes triumphs in both England and Australia. He has won 21 of his 40 Tests in charge, drawing 13 and losing six.
He has scored 8.314 runs in 119 first-class matches for the County at an average of 42.63, with 19 centuries and has taken 86 catches. He scored his maiden double century versus Leicestershire at Lord's in 2011.
He was awarded the M.B.E. in 2005 and the OBE in 2011. He was also awarded an H
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Andrew Strauss
English cricketer (born 1977)
Sir Andrew John StraussOBE (born 2 March 1977) is an English cricket administrator and former player, formerly the Director of Cricket for the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB). He played county cricket for Middlesex, and captained the England national team in all formats of the game. A fluent left-handed opening batsman, Strauss favoured scoring off the back foot, mostly playing cut and pull shots. He was also known for his fielding strength at slip or in the covers.
Strauss made his first-class debut in 1998, and his One Day International (ODI) debut in Sri Lanka in 2003. He quickly rose to fame on his Test match debut replacing the injured Michael Vaughan at Lord's against New Zealand in 2004.[1] With scores of 112 and 83 (run out) in an England victory, and the man of the match award, he became only the fourth batsman to score a century at Lord's on his debut and was close to becoming the first Englishman to score centuries in both innings of his debut.[2][3] Strauss again nearly scored two
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Andrew Strauss
Sir Andrew Strauss is one of England’s greatest ever cricketers who captained his country to some of its most historic victories. Over the course of his successful career, Andrew represented England on over 200 occasions scoring more than 11,000 runs in his role as an opening batsman. Hanging up his pads in 2012, Andrew has had to cope with the devastating loss of his wife Ruth to cancer. In his capacity as a mental health speaker, Andrew can discuss how he dealt with this grief as well as the demands placed upon him in his sporting career and pressure from the public eye. Such experiences have equipped Andrew to share his strategies for mental resilience and open the discussion surrounding men’s mental health.
Andrew was named England captain in 2009 but he’d seen success prior to that playing a key role in the side’s historic Ashes win in 2005. If 2005 was the year that cricket came home, under Andrew’s tenure it stayed for good. In 2009 and 2011 Andrew captained the team to their first back-to-back Ashes victories since the 80s and becoming only the thi
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