Paul Collingwood
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| Batting style | Right-hand bat | |
| Bowling type | Right-arm medium-fast | |
| Tests | ODIs | |
| Matches | 17 | 103 |
| Runs scored | 1356 | 2311 |
| Batting average | 48.42 | 33.01 |
| 100s/50s | 3/4 | 2/12 |
| Top score | 206 | 112* |
| Balls bowled | 432 | 2271 |
| Wickets | 1 | 50 |
| Bowling average | 245.00 | 38.38 |
| 5 wickets in innings | - | 1 |
| 10 wickets in match | - | N/A |
| Best bowling | 1/33 | 6/31 |
| Catches/stumpings | 23/- | 56/- |
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Paul David Collingwood MBE (born 26 May 1976, Shotley Bridge, Durham), colloquially known as Colly, is an English cricketer who is vice-captain of Durham and plays for England.
Collingwood is an all-rounder who mixes natural strokeplay with the bat with reliable medium-pace bowling. At 5'11" and an athletic and highly skilled fielder, he usually fields at backward point, and has drawn comparisons with the likes of South African Jonty Rhodes and other outstanding international fielders.
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[edit] Career
[edit] The Early Days
Born and bred in Durham, he joined his local county side, where he became an instant favourite. He was swift to make an impression on the first-class game, taking the wicket of former England all-rounder David Capel with his first ball, and scoring 91 in his first innings against Northamptonshire.
Collingwood was voted Player of the Year by the Durham members in 2000, particularly for his one-day efforts. A back injury then saw his form peak and trough but in 2001 he hit form and excelled in the county championship and the one-day game, earning a call up to the England squad and he was selected for the NatWest Series against Pakistan and Australia in 2001.
[edit] First forays with England
Although not particularly successful in his debut, the selectors showed their confidence in his ability by choosing him for the one-day tour of Zimbabwe, where he starred as England secured a 5-0 whitewash. Having established himself as an integral part of the England one-day setup, the next step would be to earn a call-up to the Test squad. However, he dislocated his right shoulder while fielding in a pre-season county friendly against Lancashire and was forced to miss most of the 2003 season. Nevertheless, he was awarded a 12-month ECB contract when the winter touring squads were announced for Bangladesh and Sri Lanka where he would make his Test debut.
Although unable to establish a place in the first eleven, his all-round ability and fielding strengths made him a regular on England's overseas Test tours as 12th man. Several of the 'caught sub' entries recorded on England's scorecards can be attributed to his appearances on the field as a substitute, although they don't count towards his official statistics.
He retained his place in England's one-day side throughout the summer of 2004 despite a knee injury and scored an unbeaten 79 in the second match of the NatWest Challenge against India at The Oval as the home side won the series 2-1. Collingwood was also England's second highest run-scorer in the Champions Trophy with 141 at an average of 70.5, which included an unbeaten 80 in the opening game against Zimbabwe. He played in all 11 one-day internationals against Zimbabwe and South Africa, and was then named in the England Development Squad in May 2005, and the 14-man squad for The NatWest Series and the NatWest International Twenty20 against Australia.
[edit] The Ashes Summer
On 21 June 2005, playing for England against Bangladesh at Trent Bridge, he scored 112 not out from 86 balls, then took 6-31, the best-ever figures by an Englishman, to become the first player to score a century and take six wickets in a One Day International; Viv Richards had previously scored a hundred and taken five.
He also played in England's inaugral Twenty20 International match held at the Rose Bowl, where a useful contribution of 49 and the wickets of Brett Lee and Jason Gillespie helped jumpstart England on its Ashes recovery path with 100-run thrashing of Australia.
While originally selected for the Test squad at the outset of the series, Collingwood was not called upon until after the injury to bowler Simon Jones occurred during the Fourth Test at Trent Bridge. Collingwood was then called up for the fifth and deciding Ashes Test, and although he only scored 7 and 10 with the bat that match, his blocking performance alongside Kevin Pietersen in a 60-run sixth wicket stand on the final day helped England draw the match, and clinch the series.
In the 2006 New Year's Honours List, he was awarded the MBE for his role in the successful Ashes victory (despite some criticism that his limited role did not warrant the honour).
[edit] Winter of Discontent
He came back into the team for the 3rd Test against Pakistan in 2005-6, making his first and second Test 50 in both innings in a losing cause. In the ODI series he, along with Durham teammates Liam Plunkett and Steve Harmison, accounted for the majority of wickets through their bowling and fielding.
Following his performance in Pakistan, Collingwood was added to an injury-hit England eleven for the first Test against India in March 2006. Collingwood justified his position in the team with a magnificent 134 not out in the first innings on 2 March 2006, making his first Test century (and also first for any player from the Durham CCC since its promotion to First-Class County) and steadying a wavering ship with a patient and intelligent knock. Following this innings the Times, who had been among the critics of Collingwood's MBE, ran the sports headline "MBE? Give this man a knighthood!"
[edit] A Summer of Breakthroughs
He subsequently kept his place for the first three Tests against Sri Lanka. While he dropped two catches during the first Test at Lord's, he made up for those errors during the second Test at Egbaston, where he made five catches in two innings while playing his usual batting style as foil (with Andrew Flintoff) to Kevin Pietersen's 142 in the first innings. In the subsequent Twenty20 International match against Sri Lanka, he took 4-22 in a losing cause, a record that currently still stands as the best bowling record in Twenty20 Internationals.
He then followed this up with a vital innings in the 1st Test against Pakistan later in the summer, scoring his second Test century. On this occasion he was the dominant partner, batting for most of his innings with rookie Alastair Cook. When Cook departed, he continued with Ian Bell to complete his 150 before at last being removed by Danish Kaneria for 186. This score proved to be England's highest of the series.
On 6th August 2006 Collingwood took his first Test wicket off his 381st ball trapping Faisal Iqbal LBW for a golden duck; later that summer he would achieve his 100th ODI cap (the 12th Englishman to achieve this feat, and currently one of four still-active Englishmen to have 100 or more limited-overs international match caps) and 50 ODI wickets in the same match by claiming Inzamam ul-Haq's and Abdul Razzaq's wickets during the 5th ODI against Pakistan in Birmingham on 10 September.
[edit] The Ashes Season: 2006-7
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Upon this newfound success, Collingwood was selected for both the Champions Trophy squad and Ashes touring party. However, after two lacklustre defeats to India and Australia, critics such as Geoffrey Boycott and some fans began to question the coaching staff's placement of him in the batting order, and of his placements on the team especially in the wake of Andrew Flintoff's return.
This return would reignite the ongoing batsman debate between Cook, Bell and Collingwood, with many speculating that Collingwood would be the man to miss out. However, with the sudden departure of Marcus Trescothick from the tour just over a week before the First Test, the debate has once again been settled for the time being.
In the first Test at the Gabba in Brisbane, Collingwood worked his way to a hard earned 96, narrowly missing out on a century, stumped trying to dance down the wicket to Shane Warne . Then, in the second Test at Adelaide, he made a career-best 206 in the first innings, sharing in a 310-run 4th wicket stand with Pietersen, and becoming only the eighth English double centurion against Australia in Ashes history, and the first in Australia since Wally Hammond achieved this feat in the 1930s. In the second innings he added an unbeaten 22 from 119 balls as England collapsed to 129 all out.
[edit] Achievements
[edit] Records
- 1000+ Test runs in a calendar year in 2006
- 4/22 bowling figures in single Twenty20 International match vs. Sri Lanka in 2006
- 6/31 and 112* in a single ODI vs, Bangladesh in 2005
- First Durham CCC player to score a Test century and double century for England
[edit] Man of the Match Awards
[edit] ODIs
- 10 October 2001, vs Zimbabwe @ Harare - 77
- 21 January 2002, vs India @ Cuttack - 71*
- 20 February 2002, vs New Zealand @ Napier - 4/38
- 20 December 2002, vs Sri Lanka @ Perth (VB Series) - 100
- 10 September 2004, vs Zimbabwe @ Birmingham - 80*
- 21 June 2005, vs. Bangladesh @ Nottingham - 112* and 6/31
[edit] Personal Information
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Collingwood is an alumnus of Blackfyne Comprehensive School.
He is also a devoted fan of Sunderland AFC.
[edit] External links
- Player Profile: Paul Collingwood from Cricinfo
- HowSTAT! ODI Stats, Test Stats, World Cup Stats
- BBC 606 Profile #1, #2
| Englishmen with 100 or more ODI caps |  |
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| Alec Stewart 170 | Darren Gough 157* | Graham Gooch 125 | Allan Lamb 122 | Graeme Hick 120 | Marcus Trescothick 120* | |
| Ian Botham 116 | David Gower 114 | Andrew Flintoff 105* | Paul Collingwood 103* | Phillip DeFreitas 103 | Nick Knight 100 | |
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England squad - 2003 Cricket World Cup | |
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1 Hussain | 2 Stewart | 3 Anderson | 4 Blackwell | 5 Caddick | 6 Collingwood | 7 Flintoff | 8 Giles | 9 Harmison | 10 Hoggard | 11 Irani | 12 Knight | 13 Trescothick | 14 Vaughan | 15 White | Coach: Fletcher |
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