Bryan Strang
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| Bryan Strang | ||||
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 Zimbabwe |
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| Batting style | Right-hand bat | |||
| Bowling style | Left-arm medium | |||
| Career statistics | ||||
| Tests | ODIs | |||
| Matches | 26 | 49 | ||
| Runs scored | 465 | 92 | ||
| Batting average | 12.91 | 5.11 | ||
| 100s/50s | 0/1 | 0/0 | ||
| Top score | 53 | 18 | ||
| Balls bowled | 5433 | 2494 | ||
| Wickets | 56 | 46 | ||
| Bowling average | 39.33 | 37.34 | ||
| 5 wickets in innings | 1 | 1 | ||
| 10 wickets in match | 0 | n/a | ||
| Best bowling | 5/101 | 6/20 | ||
| Catches/stumpings | 11/- | 15/- | ||
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As of 11 February 2006 |
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Bryan Colin Strang (born June 9, 1972, Bulawayo) is a former Zimbabwean cricketer who played in 26 Tests and 49 ODIs from 1995 to 2001. His older brother Paul Strang also played international cricket for Zimbabwe.
Strang was a left-arm medium bowler and due to his nagging accuracy was hard to get away in ODI cricket. This earned him a career economy rate of 4.13. His best bowling figures in ODI cricket of 6 for 20, made against Bangladesh in 1997 are a Zimbabwean record.
In 2001 he helped bowl Matabeleland out for a national record low score in first-class cricket of 19 runs, taking 5 wickets for 6.
He played his last game for Zimbabwe in July 2001 and in 2002 he moved to South Africa due to political unrest. He's become a vocal critic of Zimbabwean cricket and during the 2003 World Cup he stated that Zimbabwe should be barred from hosting World Cup matches on moral grounds. As a result, when he attempted a comeback in 2003-04 the Zimbabwean Cricket Union banned him.
In 2008 he received an honorary degree in Sports Sciences from the University of Newcastle upon Tyne, making him eligible for their crunch cricket match against the University of Edinburgh in July.
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