John Davison
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| Batting style | Right-handed batsman (RHB) | |
| Bowling type | Right-arm offbreak (OB) | |
| Tests | ODIs | |
| Matches | 0 | 12 |
| Runs scored | N/A | 323 |
| Batting average | N/A | 26.91 |
| 100s/50s | N/A | 1/2 |
| Top score | N/A | 111 |
| Overs bowled | N/A | 93 |
| Wickets | N/A | 19 |
| Bowling average | N/A | 20.78 |
| 5 wickets in innings | N/A | 0 |
| 10 wickets in match | N/A | N/A |
| Best bowling | N/A | 3-15 |
| Catches/stumpings | N/A | 4/0 |
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John Michael Davison (born 9 May 1970 in Campbell River, British Columbia) is the best known Canadian cricket player. He is a hard-hitting right-handed batsman in the top or middle order, useful off spin bowler and good fieldsman.
Although born in Canada, Davison moved to Australia and attended school at St Ignatius' College, Riverview where he was a member of the 1st XI before playing grade cricket in Melbourne and attending the Australian Cricket Academy in 1993. He was a member of the Victorian Bushrangers state squad for a number of years but was unable to hold down a regular place in the side.
In 1999 Davison agreed to spend the Australian winters in Canada as a club player and coach, and he was quickly involved in the Canadian national team, where he played in the 2001 ICC Trophy where Canada performed well to qualify for the 2003 World Cup in South Africa and Zimbabwe.
At the World Cup Davison made an overnight name for himself (see 2003 World Cup section below), stunning the strong West Indies team with an aggressive innings of 111 (officially the quickest century in World Cup history, and the first One-day International century for Canada), before making a half-century against New Zealand at the incredible strike rate of 200.
After his successes for the modest Canadian team at the World Cup, Davison returned to Australia and continued playing for South Australia, where he had played since 2002 after being released by Victoria.
Continuing his form for Canada, Davison returned to the national lineup for the 2004 ICC Intercontinental Cup. He was in inspirational form as Canada overcame rivals USA, taking match figures of 17 for 137 - the best first-class match figures anywhere in the world for nearly fifty years [1] - and scoring a half-century as Canada won the match.
His form at international level didn't help in Australia though as in January 2005, Davison was dropped from the South Australia state squad.
He has continued to represent Canada internationally, most recently in their home internationals in 2006. He is the current captain of the team.
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[edit] 2003 World Cup highlights
- On February 23 against the West Indies, John scored 111 runs off of 76 balls, the first 100 of which were scored off of 67 balls. In his innings he hit 6 sixes and 8 fours, thrilling (and certainly shocking) the crowd with his unrelenting aggression. A Canadian victory over the West Indies would have been regarded as laughably impossible to even those with the mildest interest in cricket, prior to his opening performance. It took an act of near equal brilliance to finally dismiss him after an hour and a half of unexpected dominance, with Vasbert Drakes taking a miraculous backwards-leaping catch at the boundary, after Davison had punished the bowling of Wavell Hinds yet again with what looked like being another magnificent six. Despite his performance, Canada were convincingly beaten by the West Indies, who reached their target of 203 in just over 20 overs.
- A week later, on March 3 against New Zealand, John reached 50 runs in 25 balls, which in a great irony would have been the fastest World Cup 50 of all time, were it not for Wavell Hinds' and Brian Lara's innings in the match against Canada the previous week, chasing the total Davison himself was mainly responsible for. Hinds and Lara managed the feat in 23 and 24 balls respectively. John went on to score 75 runs in 61 balls, including 4 sixes and 9 fours. Still, New Zealand went on to win the match by 5 wickets, thanks to the batting of Scott Styris (54) and Chris Harris (38).
- These two innings gained John Davison the achievement of having two of the top ten fastest world cup 50's in history.
- His 111 is also the fifth fastest century in One-Day International history.
| Career record | First-class | List A |
| Matches | 50 | 49 |
| Runs scored | 1149 | 1097 |
| Batting average | 16.65 | 24.93 |
| 100s/50s | 1/4 | 2/6 |
| Top score | 165 | 125 |
| Balls bowled | 9,942 | 2,127 |
| Wickets | 110 | 57 |
| Bowling average | 45.59 | 27.43 |
| 5 wickets in innings | 5 | 1 |
| 10 wickets in match | 1 | N/A |
| Best Bowling | 9-76 | 5-26 |
| Catches/Stumpings | 25/0 | 15/0 |
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[edit] Teams
[edit] International
- Canada (current)
[edit] Australian state
[edit] Career highlights
[edit] One-day internationals
ODI Debut: vs Bangladesh, Durban, 2003 World Cup
Latest ODI: vs New Zealand, Benoni, 2003 World Cup
- Davison's best ODI batting score of 111 was made against West Indies, Centurion, 2003 World Cup
- His best ODI bowling figures of 3 for 15 came against Kenya, Cape Town, 2003 World Cup
[edit] ICC Trophy
ICC Trophy Debut: vs Singapore, Toronto, 2001
Latest ICC Trophy Game: vs Scotland, Toronto, 2001
- Davison's best ICC Trophy batting score of 35 was made against Denmark, Toronto, 2001
- His best ICC Trophy bowling figures of 3 for 15 came against Denmark, Toronto, 2001
[edit] External links
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Canada squad - 2003 Cricket World Cup | |
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1 Harris | 2 de Groot | 3 Billcliff | 4 Maraj | 5 Chumney | 6 F. Samad | 7 Patel | 8 Davison | 9 Bagai | 10 Thuraisingam | 11 Joseph | 12 Seebaran | 13 Codrington | 14 Ifill | 15 A. Samad |
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