Andy Pick
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Robert Andrew Pick (born 19 November 1963 in Nottingham) is a former English cricketer, and is currently the coach of the England Under-19 team, having formerly coached the Canadian national team.
A medium-pace bowler, Pick played county cricket for Nottinghamshire. He made a somewhat inauspicious first-class debut against Hampshire in July 1983, returning first-innings figures of 20-3-101-0. During this match he also made his List A debut in the John Player League, taking 1-56 from eight overs, his victim being Mark Nicholas. Pick's maiden first-class wicket finally arrived in the second innings of his third game, when he dismissed Yorkshire's Martyn Moxon, but he ended the season with a dismal record of just seven first-class wickets at 71.42.
Pick had a better 1984 season, taking 25 wickets at an average of a shade under 31, and from then until 1995 he was in and out of the Nottinghamshire first team. His best years came in the early 1990s: after a winter in New Zealand with Wellington, in 1990 he recorded his best bowling figures, 7-128 against Leicestershire, and that winter he travelled with the England A team, claiming 21 first-class wickets in Sri Lanka at just 17 runs apiece. He continued his good form in the summer, taking a career best 67 wickets in the English season.
In 1994, Pick hit his highest first-class score of 65 not out - batting at number ten - against Northamptonshire, but by this time his playing days were numbered, and his last appearances came in the 1997 season. He went wicketless in his final first-class game, against Yorkshire, but in one-day cricket he signed off in style, with 3-17 in a ten-wicket hammering of Staffordshire in the NatWest Trophy.
After retiring from top-level cricket, Pick played a handful of times for Cambridgeshire and Huntingdonshire without much success, before turning to coaching. He coached the England Under-19 team in the 2006 U-19 World Cup before being appointed by the Canadian Cricket Association in March 2006 to coach that country's national team in the run-up to the 2007 World Cup.
After the World Cup, Canada did not retain his services, and he returned to England, taking charge once again of the England Under-19 team.
Pick is the brother-in-law of David Millns, and the two played in the same Nottinghamshire team on a number of occasions.
