Terry Alderman

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Terry Alderman Australia (Aus)
Batting style	Right-hand bat
Bowling type	Right-arm fast-medium
	Tests	ODIs
Matches	41	65
Runs scored	203	32
Batting average	6.54	2.66
100s/50s	-/-	-/-
Top score	26*	9*
Balls bowled	10181	3371
Wickets	170	88
Bowling average	27.15	23.36
5 wickets in innings	14	2
10 wickets in match	1	N/A
Best bowling	6/47	5/17
Catches/stumpings	27/-	29/-
As of 12 December 2005 Source: Cricinfo.com

Terence Michael Alderman (born 12 June 1956 in Subiaco, Western Australia, Australia) is a former Australian cricketer.

He began his first-class career in 1974 with Western Australia in the Sheffield Shield and came to international prominence when he was chosen by the Australian national team to tour England in 1981. In that series he took 42 Test wickets, the biggest haul in a series since Jim Laker's 46 in 1956 and the fourth-highest total of all time. He was, unsurprisingly, named as a Wisden Cricketer of the Year in the Almanack's 1982 edition.

He suffered a fairly serious shoulder injury in 1982-83 while tackling an English ground invader at the WACA Ground in Perth.

Alderman joined the unofficial Australian tour in 1985-86 to South Africa, who were then banned from Test cricket during the apartheid era. As a result, he received a 3 year ban from international cricket depriving himself of facing the English in the 1985 Ashes series in England.

Alderman returned to the Australian side and had great success in England in 1989, taking 41 wickets in the series, and also claimed 16 on his final Ashes appearance in 1990/91, but with one or two exceptions he never approached this level of success against other countries. He ended his career with 170 Test wickets.

He was a poor batsman, passing fifty just once in his career and averaging barely eight in first-class cricket. He had three seasons in English county cricket, with Kent (1984 and 1986) and then with Gloucestershire (1988). He now works as a radio commentator in Australia.

Alderman's sister Denise Emerson is married to former Test umpire Ross Emerson and herself played seven Tests for the Australian women's cricket team.

Alderman is an old boy of Aquinas College, Perth.

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• Cricinfo article on Terry Alderman

Persondata
NAME	Alderman, Terence Michael
ALTERNATIVE NAMES
SHORT DESCRIPTION	Cricketer
DATE OF BIRTH	12 June 1956
PLACE OF BIRTH	Subiaco, Western Australia
DATE OF DEATH
PLACE OF DEATH