Angus Fraser

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	Tests	ODIs
Angus Fraser England (Eng)

Batting style	Right-hand bat
Bowling type	Right-arm fast-medium
Matches	46	42
Runs scored	388	141
Batting average	7.46	12.81
100s/50s	-/-	-/-
Top score	32	38*
Balls bowled	10876	2392
Wickets	177	47
Bowling average	27.32	30.04
5 wickets in innings	13	-
10 wickets in match	2	n/a
Best bowling	8/53	4/22
Catches/stumpings	9/-	5/-
As of 1 January 2006 Source: Cricinfo.com

Angus Robert Charles Fraser born 8 August 1965, in Billinge, Wigan, Lancashire was an English cricketer.

Fraser was one of the most consistent English seam bowlers of the 1990s and was known for giving few runs away, although like all too many of that decade's players, his selection or otherwise for the international side was sometimes a matter of the selectors' whims rather than being decided on purely cricketing grounds. He made his debut against Australia in the Third Test of the 1989 Ashes series.

Perhaps his finest hour came in the Barbados Test match of the 1993/94 West Indies tour, when Fraser took 8-75 in the first innings to help set up a famous victory, West Indies' first defeat at Bridgetown for more than half a century. His career-best first-class cricket figures, 8-53, were also taken in a Test against the same opposition, this time at Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago in 1997/98. Despite taking eight wickets in an innings, he did not win the Man of the Match award, which went to Carl Hooper from the winning West Indies side.

His ODI high score of 38 not out, scored late in the innings at No. 10 and including a massive six off Steve Waugh, almost brought England back from the brink of defeat against Australia during the 1990/91 tour (Australia won by three runs). Another fine moment with the bat was in a last-wicket second-innings stand with Robert Croft to save the third Test at Old Trafford against South Africa in 1998.

Despite his Lancashire birthplace, Fraser played all of his county cricket for Middlesex, in a first-class career running from 1984 to 2002. He served as the county captain from 2001 until his retirement in 2002, when he was appointed as the cricket correspondent of The Independent newspaper. He is also a regular contributor to the BBC's Test Match Special.

In the 1996 edition of Wisden, he was one of the Wisden Cricketers of the Year

He currently now resides in Stanmore with his wife and two kids, Alexander and Bethan.