Stuart Law

Stuart Law
Personal information
Full name Stuart Grant Law
Born (1968-10-18) 18 October 1968
Herston, Queensland, Australia
Batting style Right-hand
Bowling style Right-arm medium, leg spin
International information
National side
Only Test (cap 365) 8 December 1995 v Sri Lanka
ODI debut (cap 121) 2 December 1994 v Zimbabwe
Last ODI 13 February 1999 v England
Domestic team information
YearsTeam
1988/9–2003/4 Queensland
1996–2001 Essex
2002–2008 Lancashire
2009 Derbyshire
Career statistics
Competition Tests ODIs FC LA
Matches 1 54 367 392
Runs scored 54 1237 27080 11812
Batting average – 26.89 50.52 34.43
100s/50s 0/1 1/7 79/128 20/64
Top score 54* 110 263 163
Balls bowled 18 807 8433 3855
Wickets 0 12 83 90
Bowling average n/a 52.91 51.03 35.17
5 wickets in innings 0 0 1 1
10 wickets in match 0 n/a 0 n/a
Best bowling n/a 2/22 5/39 5/26
Catches/stumpings 1/– 12/– 407/– 154/–
Source: Cricinfo.com, 27 July 2009

Stuart Grant Law OAM (born 18 October 1968) is an Australian-born cricketer, who played one test and 54 One Day Internationals for Australia. Law also captained Queensland to five Sheffield Shield titles and two one day trophies, making him the most successful captain in Australian domestic cricket; he is also Queensland’s all-time leading run scorer in first class cricket.[1] He is also a cricket coach, and was head coach of the Bangladesh national cricket team in 2011-2012.

Playing career

After a couple of seasons with the Australian youth team, Law made his first-class debut for Queensland in the 1988/89 Sheffield Shield, scoring 179 in his second match. In 1990/91 he had a superb season, with a batting average over 75 and scoring more than 1,200 runs.

Law made his Australia debut in a One Day International in 1994/95, and captained Young Australia in England the following summer. In 1995/96 he played his first and only Test match in place of the injured Steve Waugh, making an unbeaten half-century, and subsequently being dropped upon Waugh's recovery. As Law was not picked for Australia again, he is now in the unusual position of being a test cricketer without a batting average.

It was a different story in one-day cricket, and he played more than fifty times for his country in that form of the game, including the 1996 World Cup. He was a middle-order batsman, and he occasionally contributed with some right-arm leg spin bowling.

1996 saw Law make his English County Championship debut, with Essex, and such was his success in England that he averaged over 55 in all but one of his six seasons at the county, making his career-best score of 263 in 1999. However, disagreements within the club led him to leave for Lancashire for 2002.

During his first season with Lancashire, Law was awarded his county cap.[2] Apart from an enforced absence through injury for part of the 2004 season, Law continued to pile up the runs for his new team, scoring 1,820 in 2003 at an exceptional average of 91, and after hitting 1,277 championship runs in 2007, signed a new one-year deal with the club.[3] Following Mark Chilton's resignation as captain at the end of the 2007 season, Law was appointed Lancashire captain ahead of players such as Dominic Cork, Glen Chapple and Luke Sutton.[4] He was released in October 2008 to be replaced by Glen Chapple as captain for the 2009 season, before signing a contract to play for Derbyshire in limited overs cricket in 2009.[5]

Law was selected as one of the five Wisden Cricketers of the Year in 1998.[6] In 2007, he was awarded the Medal of the Order of Australia.[7]

Law has represented the Chennai Superstars in the Indian Cricket League as their captain.[8]

Coaching career

Law was appointed as Sri Lanka's assistant coach in October 2009. He was then head coach in 2011-2012 when Trevor Bayliss left shortly after the 2011 world cup. The Pakistan Cricket Team was trying to make him their coach but Mickey Arthur was announced the head coach instead .[9][10]

See also

References

  1. ↑ Cricinfo staff (2007-11-14). "Law takes on Lancashire captaincy". Cricinfo. Retrieved 2007-11-14.
  2. ↑ Evans, Colin (2002-09-02), "Ronnie ruins Law's big day", Manchester Evening News, retrieved 2011-09-23
  3. ↑ "Law Commits To Lancs", 2 November 2007, www.ecb.co.uk Archived 5 November 2007 at the Wayback Machine.
  4. ↑ "Law takes on Lancashire captaincy". BBC Online. 2007-11-14. Retrieved 2007-11-14.
  5. ↑ "Derbyshire Sign Law For 2009 Limited Overs Campaign". Cricket World. 2009-03-24. Retrieved 2009-03-24.
  6. ↑ "Wisden Cricketers of the Year". Cricket Archive. Retrieved 2007-11-20.
  7. ↑ "Aussie honour for Lancs star Law". BBC Sport. 2007-01-25. Retrieved 2007-01-26.
  8. ↑ Cricinfo staff (2007-11-14). "Lara and Inzamam named in ICL teams". Cricinfo. Retrieved 2007-11-20.
  9. ↑ Stuart Law Named Bangladesh Cricket Head Coach, BangladeshFirst.com, 27 June 2011, retrieved January 9, 2013
  10. ↑ Shankar, Ajay S (October 23, 2009). "Stuart Law named Sri Lanka's assistant coach". Cricinfo. Retrieved January 9, 2013.
Sporting positions
Preceded by
Ian Healy		 Queensland ING Cup captain
1999/00–2002/03 		Succeeded by
Jimmy Maher
Preceded by
Ian Healy		 Queensland Sheffield Shield captain
1999/00–2002/03 		Succeeded by
Jimmy Maher
Preceded by
Mark Chilton		 Lancashire captain
2008 		Succeeded by
Glen Chapple
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