Chris Lewis

England|Bowling Allrounder
Chris Lewis
INTL CAREER: 1990 - 1998
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Full Name

Clairmonte Christopher Lewis

Born

February 14, 1968, Georgetown, Demerara, Guyana

Age

56y 34d

Nicknames

Carl

Batting Style

Right hand Bat

Bowling Style

Right arm Fast medium

Playing Role

Bowling Allrounder

Height

6ft 2in

Education

Willesden High School

When he wasn't posing for a magazine in his underwear, shaving his head and getting sunstroke, or turning up late for practice because of a "flat tyre", Lewis could touch the heights few in the county game can reach. His fast-medium seamers were propelled by an athletic, high action, his batting was full of exquisite onside drives and fierce cuts, and his fielding could be sensational. But, apart from some excellent bowling in the 1992 World Cup, he rarely delivered when England needed him most, and his many critics got stuck in. He started at Leicestershire, then had spells at Notts and Surrey, where he helped win the Sunday League in 1996 and the B&H in '97, before returning to Grace Road. All the time he was in and out of the Test side, despite going on six consecutive tours and hitting a hundred in a lost cause at Madras in 1992-93. But Lewis was never fully accepted by his peers, and he was ostracised further when, in 1999, it emerged that he had passed on the names of three England cricketers allegedly involved in match-fixing to the ECB. He drifted out of the game an unfulfilled talent. He returned to Surrey in 2008, aged 40, when he signed a surprise pay-as-you-play contract for the Twenty20 Cup but it didn't prove a success as injury brought it to an early end. But he struggled out of the limelight and in late 2008 he was arrested at Gatwick Airport and subsequently found guilty of smuggling cocaine into the country. He was sentenced to 13 years in prison. "I suppose this highlights how difficult it can be for players to cope once they stop playing cricket," former team-mate Angus Fraser reflected.
Lawrence Booth May 2009

Chris Lewis Career Stats

Bowling

FormatMatInnsBallsRunsWktsBBIBBMAveEconSR4w5w10w
Tests325568523490936/1117/11437.523.0573.6330
ODIs534926251942664/304/3029.424.4339.7400
FC189-32004162255436/22-29.883.0458.9-203
List A266-1184682323125/195/1926.384.1637.91020
T20s1112290---14.50-000

Batting & Fielding

FormatMatInnsNORunsHSAveBFSR100s50s4s6sCtSt
Tests32513110511723.02242145.64141376250
ODIs5340143743314.3845981.4800256200
FC18927534740624730.73--934--1540
List A266217563959116*24.59--114--1040
T20s110222.00450.00000000
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Recent Matches of Chris Lewis

MatchBatBowlDateGroundFormat
PCA XI vs Sth Africans7--13-Aug-2008WormsleyOTHERT20
Surrey vs Essex20/2911-Jun-2008The OvalT20
Surrey vs Middlesex330/5120-Apr-2008The OvalList A
PCA XI vs Derbyshire83/1714-Sep-2007DerbyOTHERT20
PCA XI vs Essex25*0/2313-Sep-2007ChelmsfordOTHERT20

Photos of Chris Lewis

Chris Lewis during his Surrey comeback
Chris Lewis in action on his Surrey comeback
Chris Lewis on his comeback photocall
Chris Lewis
Chris Lewis poses after re-signing with Surrey
Chris Lewis bowling for Leics in the 2000 Benson and Hedges competition