Darren Pattinson

England|Bowler
Darren Pattinson
INTL CAREER: 2008 - 2008
Browse other players
Australia
All

Alphabetically sorted top ten of players who have played the most matches across formats in the last 12 months

Full Name

Darren John Pattinson

Born

August 02, 1979, Grimsby, Lincolnshire, England

Age

44y 230d

Batting Style

Right hand Bat

Bowling Style

Right arm Fast medium

Playing Role

Bowler

RELATIONS

(brother)

After years of toiling away for Dandenong in Melbourne's club cricket, higher honours appeared to have permanently eluded Darren Pattinson until, in July 2008, he was sensationally plucked from obscurity to make his Test debut for England - the country of his birth - against South Africa at Headingley.

It was a bewilderingly rapid promotion for a man who had played only 11 first-class matches in his entire career, and who at the time was only two weeks shy of his 29th birthday. That weekend, he had been planning to take his kids to Alton Towers but an injury to Ryan Sidebottom - and doubts about the effectiveness of Matthew Hoggard - led England's selectors to trawl the shires for a tall and accurate new-ball bowler who could be relied upon to hit the deck and extract some swing at a good pace. Pattinson's season stats, 29 wickets at 20.86 for Nottinghamshire, brooked no argument, although the fact that he had not been a permanent resident in England since leaving his hometown of Grimsby at the age of six might have counted against him.

As it turned out, he performed credibly with 2 for 95 in South Africa's first innings, but England's ten-wicket drubbing meant he vanished from view almost as quickly as he had risen in the first place. That rise had begun in November 2006 when a spate of injuries struck down Victoria's frontline fast bowlers. At 27, the uncontracted Pattinson made his Pura Cup, limited-overs and Twenty20 debuts, and his job as a roof-tiler took a backseat as he claimed 4 for 87 in his maiden first-class match against South Australia. His efforts earned him a state contract for 2007-08, and though he was only used twice in Pura Cup games in his second season, Pattinson was recommended to Nottinghamshire by his colleague, David Hussey.

Pattinson became the spearhead of the Nottinghamshire attack, helping them win the County Championship in 2010 but suffered injury problems in 2011 and missed the first two months of the 2012 season as he recuperated from a stress fracture of the back. Although he played in the Twenty20 and CB40 competitions, he did not make a first-class appearance in 2012 and ended his five-year association with Nottinghamshire by deciding to play in Australia as a domestic player, returning to resume his career with Victoria alongside his brother, James. When the latter made his Test match debut for Australia in December 2011 it meant that for the first time in more than a century two brothers had represented different countries in Tests.

Darren developed into an effective bowler in Twenty20 cricket. His haul of 23 wickets in 16 matches in the 2011 English season was the most by a Nottinghamshire bowler in a single season and included figures of 5 for 25 against Warwickshire.
Andrew Miller

Darren Pattinson Career Stats

Bowling

FormatMatInnsBallsRunsWktsBBIBBMAveEconSR4w5w10w
Tests121819622/952/9648.003.1890.5000
FC62109984056421718/359/9732.993.4457.5480
List A696827012440934/294/2926.235.4229.0300
T20s646212041554735/255/2521.287.7416.4110

Batting & Fielding

FormatMatInnsNORunsHSAveBFSR100s50s4s6sCtSt
Tests120211310.505042.00003000
FC6275167635912.93178142.840198770
List A69231110316*8.5815267.760052170
T20s641374012*6.664197.560040170
Darren Pattinson

Explore Statsguru Analysis

Test

Recent Matches of Darren Pattinson

Photos of Darren Pattinson

Darren Pattinson took two early wickets in Nottinghamshire's victory
Graeme White and Darren Pattinson celebrate the fall of a Durham wicket
Darren Pattinson was the pick of Nottinghamshire's attack, taking three cheap wickets
Darren Pattinson breaks through for Victoria
Nottinghamshire's Stuart Broad and Darren Pattinson look on after the defeat
Darren Pattinson struck twice during the afternoon session