Chris Silverwood

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Chris Silverwood

England
Batting style	Right-hand bat
Bowling style	Right-arm fast-medium
Career statistics
	Tests	ODIs
Matches	6	7
Runs scored	29	17
Batting average	7.25	4.25
100s/50s	-/-	-/-
Top score	10	12

Balls bowled	828	306
Wickets	11	6
Bowling average	40.36	40.66
5 wickets in innings	1	-
10 wickets in match	-	n/a
Best bowling	5/91	3/43
Catches/stumpings	2/-	-/-
As of 1 January 2006 Source: [1]

Christopher Eric Wilfred Silverwood (born Pontefract March 5, 1975) is an English cricketer.

Educated at Garforth Comprehensive School in Leeds, Silverwood made his debut for Yorkshire in 1993. He played for his native county for 13 years as a right-handed batsman and a right-arm medium/fast-pace bowler. With the club he won the County Championship in 2001 and the C&G Trophy in 2002. Former England bowling coach Bob Cottam once said he was faster than Allan Donald and he possesses a lively outswinger and hostile bouncer when the conditions suit.

He signed for Middlesex for the 2006 season after playing only 6 games for Yorkshire in the 2005 season.

Up to the end of the 2006 season the six foot one inch paceman had taken 533 first class wickets in 164 matches at 26.93 with a best of 7 for 93 and 248 list A one day wickets at 24.37 with a best of 5 for 28. Usually a tail end batsman he has occasionally been used as a pinch hitter in one day games. He's scored 2782 first class runs, with a best of 80, at 15.71 and 971 List A one day runs at 13.659 with a top score of 45.

He made his Test debut against Zimbabwe in 1996, but he had to wait three years for his next chance, where he struggled to find his usual life and movement in South Africa. His last Test cap was in 2002.

Nicknamed Spoons, Silvers or Chubby he is also renowned for being absolutely teetotal. He won the NBC Denis Compton Award in 1996.