Mike Denness
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Full Name
Michael Henry Denness
Born
December 01, 1940, Bellshill, Lanarkshire, Scotland
Died
April 19, 2013 (aged 72y 139d)
Nicknames
Haggis
Batting Style
Right hand Bat
Playing Role
Top order Batter
Height
5ft 11in
Education
Ayr Academy
Other
Referee
Few contemporary batsmen were more stylish than Mike Denness at his peak, in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Tallish and slim, well-balanced, immaculately dressed on and off the field, possessed of a fine array of strokes and an excellent cover fieldsman to boot, Denness looked a model cricketer in every way. It was his misfortune that when those qualities won him the England captaincy, after Ray Illingworth's dismissal, he lacked the support of one of the players on whom he was most dependent. Geoff Boycott, who made no secret of how acutely he coveted the captaincy himself, played only the first six of Denness's 19 Tests as captain, which fatally holed England's prospects against Dennis Lillee and Jeff Thomson in Australia in 1974-75. Deposed when Australia won the first Test of 1975 at Edgbaston, Denness took his medicine with typical graciousness. He later became an ICC match referee but, at Port Elizabeth in 2001-02, his decision to sanction six Indian players, including Sachin Tendulkar, caused such a furore that the Indian and South African boards barred Denness from officiating in the next match, at Centurion. The ICC responded by withdrawing Test status from the game. He died in April 2013 after a battle with cancer during his final days as president of Kent.
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Mike Denness Career Stats
Batting & Fielding
Format | Mat | Inns | NO | Runs | HS | Ave | BF | SR | 100s | 50s | 4s | 6s | Ct | St |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Tests | 28 | 45 | 3 | 1667 | 188 | 39.69 | - | - | 4 | 7 | 192 | 2 | 28 | 0 |
ODIs | 12 | 11 | 2 | 264 | 66 | 29.33 | 417 | 63.30 | 0 | 1 | 17 | 2 | 1 | 0 |
FC | 501 | 838 | 65 | 25886 | 195 | 33.48 | - | - | 33 | 152 | - | - | 410 | 0 |
List A | 232 | 219 | 21 | 5393 | 118* | 27.23 | - | - | 6 | 28 | - | - | 94 | 0 |
Bowling
Format | Mat | Inns | Balls | Runs | Wkts | BBI | BBM | Ave | Econ | SR | 4w | 5w | 10w |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Tests | 28 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
ODIs | 12 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
FC | 501 | - | 84 | 62 | 2 | 1/7 | - | 31.00 | 4.42 | 42.0 | - | 0 | 0 |
List A | 232 | - | 0 | 0 | 0 | - | - | - | - | - | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Umpire & Referee
Format | Mat | Referee |
---|---|---|
Tests | 14 | 14 |
ODIs | 35 | 35 |
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Recent Matches of Mike Denness
Match | Bat | Date | Ground | Format |
---|---|---|---|---|
Duchess Norf vs West Indians | 4 | 06-Jun-1984 | Arundel | OTHEROD |
Essex vs West Indians | -- | 14-Aug-1980 | London | OTHEROD |
Essex vs Surrey | 1 | 30-Jul-1980 | Chelmsford | List A |
Essex vs Northants | 14 | 19-Jul-1980 | Lord's | List A |
Essex vs Leics | 8 | 16-Jul-1980 | Leicester | List A |
Debut/Last Matches of Mike Denness
Test Matches
ODI Matches
FC Matches
List A Matches