Chris Lewis (cricketer)

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Chris Lewis England (Eng)

Batting style	Right-hand bat
Bowling type	Right-arm fast-medium
	Tests	ODIs
Matches	32	53
Runs scored	1105	374
Batting average	23.02	14.38
100s/50s	1/4	-/-
Top score	117	33
Balls bowled	6852	2625
Wickets	93	66
Bowling average	37.52	29.42
5 wickets in innings	3	-
10 wickets in match	-	N/A
Best bowling	6/111	4/30
Catches/stumpings	25/-	20/-
As of 1 January 2006 Source: Cricinfo.com

Christopher Clairmonte Lewis (born February 14, 1968 in Georgetown, Guyana) is an English cricket player who played for Nottinghamshire, Surrey and Leicestershire in the 1990s. He played in 32 Tests and 53 ODIs from 1990 to 1998.

Lewis was regarded as an aggressive lower-order batsman, fine fast-medium bowler and an able all-round fielder. He was regarded as a colourful player of the game, who never quite lived up to his early potential.

Lewis always felt he was driven out of county cricket, after alleging that three England team-mates had taken bribes to throw matches (a charge that was never substantiated). He was subsequently jeered by crowds and cold-shouldered by players, including his county teammates. It coincided with a decline in his form, and he left professional cricket, aged just 32.

At present, he captains Clifton Cricket Club, in the Central Lancashire Cricket League, where he opens the batting and the bowling and has an average of 98 and 20 in each discipline this season. In his spare time, he also coaches children in Berkshire.

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Lewis was famously labelled “The Prat without a Hat” by The Sun, after he was forced off the field with sunstroke having shaved his head and not worn any protection, before the first match of England’s tour of the West Indies in 1994.