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Full name Christopher John Adams
Born May 6, 1970, Whitwell, Derbyshire
Current age 38 years 160 days
Major teams England,Australian Capital Territory,Derbyshire,Sussex
Nickname Grizzly, Grizwold
Batting style Right-hand bat
Bowling style Right-arm offbreak
Height
6 ft 0 in
Education Chesterfield Boys Grammar School; Repton School
Batting and fielding averages
Mat
Inns
NO
Runs
HS
Ave
BF
SR
100
50
4s
6s
Ct
St
Tests
5
8
0
104
31
13.00
285
36.49
0
0
13
0
6
0
ODIs
5
4
0
71
42
17.75
144
49.30
0
0
3
0
3
0
First-class
336
546
41
19535
239
38.68
48
93
404
0
List A
367
347
58
11481
163
39.72
21
69
165
0
Twenty20
42
38
8
880
63
29.33
737
119.40
0
3
76
23
10
0
Bowling averages
Mat
Inns
Balls
Runs
Wkts
BBI
BBM
Ave
Econ
SR
4w
5w
10
Tests
5
2
120
59
1
1/42
1/42
59.00
2.95
120.0
0
0
0
ODIs
5
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
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First-class
336
3288
1935
41
4/28
47.19
3.53
80.1
0
0
List A
367
1391
1217
32
5/16
5/16
38.03
5.24
43.4
0
1
0
Twenty20
42
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Career statistics
Test debut
South Africa v England at Johannesburg, Nov 25-28, 1999 scorecard
Last Test
South Africa v England at Centurion, Jan 14-18, 2000 scorecard
Test statistics
ODI debut
England v South Africa at The Oval, May 21, 1998 scorecard
Last ODI
England v Zimbabwe at Cape Town, Jan 28, 2000 scorecard
ODI statistics
First-class debut
1988
Last First-class
Sussex v Yorkshire at Hove, Sep 24-27, 2008 scorecard
List A debut
1989
Last List A
Nottinghamshire v Sussex at Nottingham, Sep 14, 2008 scorecard
Twenty20 debut
Hampshire v Sussex at Southampton, Jun 13, 2003 scorecard
Last Twenty20
Essex v Sussex at Chelmsford, Jun 24, 2008 scorecard
Profile
A front-foot bruiser, Adams veers from the ferocious to the fallible. He's one of the most explosive batsmen in the county game and loves to hit the ball in the air. But in his only spell in Test cricket - in South Africa in 1999-00 - his aggressive instincts got him into trouble, especially when he drove loosely and without moving his feet. Adams is a combative cricketer and team-mates had to step in when he and Wasim Akram squared up during the interval at the 1993 B&H final. He spent ten increasingly unhappy years at Derbyshire, cricket's nest of vipers, and joined Sussex as a highly-paid captain in 1998, where he and Michael Bevan spent two summers rescuing the middle order. His hard work paid dividends in 2003 when he led Sussex to their first title and in April 2004 he was named one of Wisden's Five Cricketers of the Year. In 2006 he led Sussex to double success, winning the C&G Trophy and the Championship. At the end of the season a few eyebrows were raised when he announced he was moving to Yorkshire ... less than a fortnight later even more were raised when he made a U-turn and decided to stay at Hove and he won back-to-back Championships in 2006 and 2007. After Sussex clinched the Pro40 title in 2008, Adams announced it was standing down as captain after 11 years.
Lawrence Booth September 2008
