Warren Hegg

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Warren Hegg England (ENG)

Batting style	Right-hand bat
Bowling type	-
	Tests	First-class
Matches	2	348
Runs scored	30	11302
Batting average	7.50	27.90
100s/50s	-/-	7/55
Top score	15	134
Balls bowled	-	6
Wickets	-	-
Bowling average	-	-
5 wickets in innings	-	-
10 wickets in match	-	-
Best bowling	-	-
Catches/stumpings	8/-	857/94
Test debut: 26 December 1998 Last Test: 2 January 1999 Source: [1]

Warren Kevin Hegg (born Manchester, 23 February 1968) is an English cricketer. He played county cricket for Lancashire.

Hegg made his first-class debut for Lancashire in 1986, and remained with the county for his entire career. In 1989 he set a first-class record when he held 11 catches in a single match. Although primarily a wicket-keeper, Hegg was also a handy lower-order batsman, and made several first-class hundreds. One of his finest moments came on 12 June 1996 when playing for Lancashire against Yorkshire in the semi-final of the Benson & Hedges Cup. Chasing 251 to win, Lancashire were 97/5 when Hegg arrived at the crease. Further wickets tumbled around him but Hegg scored 81 from 62 balls to help steer his county to victory by 1 wicket from the very last ball of the match. He was appointed captain of his county in 2002, but resigned after they were relegated to Division Two of the County Championship in 2004.

Hegg played two Test matches during the 1998-99 Ashes tour of Australia when Alec Stewart was moved up the order to play as a specialist batsman. Although selected in the squad for the 2001-02 tour of India and New Zealand, Hegg never again played Test cricket.

On 15 May 2005, Hegg announced that he would retire at the end of the season; in the event, however, a hand injury forced him to miss the season's last two county matches. Hegg finished with a total of 951 first-class dismissals, of which 919 were for Lancashire, just six short of George Duckworth's county record of 925.