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| Full name | Angus Robert Charles Fraser | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | (1965-08-08)8 August 1965 (age 60) Billinge Higher End,Lancashire,England | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Nickname | Gus, Gnat | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 6 ft 6 in (1.98 m) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Batting | Right-handed | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Bowling | Right arm fast-medium | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Role | Bowler | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Relations | Alastair Fraser (brother) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Test debut (cap 537) | 6 July 1989 v Australia | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Last Test | 26 December 1998 v Australia | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| ODI debut (cap 103) | 15 October 1989 v Sri Lanka | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Last ODI | 29 May 1999 v India | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Years | Team | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1984–2002 | Middlesex | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1987/88 | Wellington | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Angus Robert Charles FraserMBE (born 8 August 1965) is an English cricket administrator.
He served as themanaging director ofMiddlesex Cricket between 2009 and 2021, before assuming a new role heading the club's academy.[1]
He is currently serving as Managing Director of the Middlesex in the Community charity.[2]
He is also a former Englishcricketer, journalist and England selector.[3]
Fraser played in forty-sixTest matches and forty-twoOne Day Internationals forEngland. Cricket commentator Colin Bateman commented that Fraser was "a reliable, intelligent and hard-working bowler".[4]
Born inBillinge Higher End, Lancashire,[4] Fraser was educated at theGayton High School inHarrow, London and Orange Hill High School, Edgware, Greater London.
Fraser began his career with Middlesex in 1984, helping them to win theCounty Championship in 1985, 1990 and 1993. He also helped Middlesex to win the1988 NatWest Trophy, taking 3–36 in the final,[5] and the1990 Refuge Assurance Cup.
He made hisTest match debut with England in 1989 againstAustralia. In his fourth Test in 1990 he took his firstfive-wicket haul in Tests, in the process helping England to their first Test victory over theWest Indies for sixteen years and 30 Tests.[6] However England missed his contributions when he was forced to withdraw fromthis series with injury, as was the case duringthe Ashes series the following winter. A hip injury then kept him out of Test cricket for two and a half years, but he made an immediate impact on his return atthe Oval in 1993, taking eight wickets as England recorded their first Test victory over Australia for 18 Tests and six and a half years.[7]
Perhaps his finest hour came in theBarbados Test match of the 1993/94West Indies tour when Fraser took 8–75 in the firstinnings to help set up a famous victory, West Indies' first defeat atBridgetown for over half a century.[8] His career-bestfirst-class cricket innings bowling figures of 8–53 were taken in aTest match and against the same opposition, this time atPort of Spain,Trinidad and Tobago, in 1997/98. Despite taking eight wickets in that innings, and Test career best match figures of 11–110, he was not namedMan of the Match which was awarded toCarl Hooper, from the victorious West Indies side.[9] In all, Fraser toured the West Indies three times, and as of 2022, he has taken more Test wickets in the West Indies than any other visiting bowler.
Hisone-day international highest score of 38 not out was made late in the innings atnumber 10, which included a massivesix offSteve Waugh and almost brought England back from the brink of defeat againstAustralia during the 1990/91 tour (Australia won by three runs). Another fine moment with the bat was in a last-wicket second-innings stand withRobert Croft to save the Third Test atOld Trafford againstSouth Africa in 1998. According to the recollection of then England coachDavid Lloyd, as Fraser went out to face the bowling ofAllan Donald, Fraser said :"‘The only way he'll get me out is if he knocks me through all three [stumps].’ I said: 'He probably will, Gus, but good luck'. But he survived. A red-inker it was and in retrospect one of the most important innings of the series".[10] Fraser's short innings indeed helped to reverse the momentum in the series, Fraser taking threefivefers in the next two Tests to help England to an unlikely series victory. He also touredNew Zealand andSouth Africa, and played in one-day tournaments in Asia, representingEngland. Throughout his career he used a bat nicknamed the "Gussy Hitter", the blade of which was designed by his mother.
Fraser last played for England during the 1999Cricket World Cup. Although born in Lancashire, Fraser played all of hiscounty cricket forMiddlesex in a first-class career lasting until 2002; he served ascounty captain from 2001 until his retirement in 2002.
After that, he worked as the cricket correspondent ofThe Independent newspaper (2002–2009), until his appointment to the newly created role of managing director of Cricket by Middlesex County Cricket Club in January 2009. He is a regular contributor to theBBC'sTest Match Special and a cricketpundit forSky Sports.
In the 1996 edition ofWisden, Fraser was one of theWisden Cricketers of the Year.
Fraser served as the managing director of cricket at Middlesex County Cricket Club between 2009 and 2021. He assumed a new role in heading the club's academy in July 2021.[1]
He also served as a selector for theEngland cricket team for a period after 2014.[11][12]
He now resides inPinner with his wife Denise and two children, Alex and Bethan. In 2008, in his first managerial role, Fraser secured the U15 Middlesex Schools Association County Cup withThe John Lyon School, where his son was in the squad.
Fraser is a fan of, and regular visitor to,Wealdstone Football Club.
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| Preceded by New position | Middlesex Managing Director of Cricket 2009-2021 | Succeeded by N/A |
| Preceded by | Middlesex County Cricket Captain 2001–2002 | Succeeded by |
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