David Houghton

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Dave Houghton
Zimbabwe
Personal information
Batting style	Right-hand bat
Bowling style	Right-arm offbreak
Career statistics
	Tests	ODIs
Matches	22	63
Runs scored	1464	1530
Batting average	43.05	26.37
100s/50s	4/4	1/12
Top score	266	142
Balls bowled	5	12
Wickets	-	1
Bowling average	-	19.00
5 wickets in innings	-	0
10 wickets in match	-	n/a
Best bowling	-	1/19
Catches/stumpings	17/-	29/2
As of 11 February 2006 Source: Cricinfo

David Laud Houghton (born on 23 June 1957 in Bulawayo) is a former Zimbabwean Test cricketer. He captained Zimbabwe in their first four Test matches, losing two and drawing two. Zimbabwe won one of the 17 One Day Internationals he was captain for.

David Houghton also represented his country in hockey and was described by the Pakistan hockey team captain as the best goal-keeper he had ever played against.^[1].

Probably Zimbabwe's second-best batsman in their short cricketing history (after Andy Flower), Houghton holds the record for the highest Test score by a Zimbabwean, with his 266 against Sri Lanka in 1994/5. Since retiring as a player, Houghton has gone on to become a coach and commentator. Before he was the coach of Derbyshire County Cricket Club he was the coach at Radlett Cricket Club in Hertfordshire. Whilst in this role his best achievement was taking Radlett to victory in the Evening Standard trophy which is London's most prestigious cricket competition. He was coach of Derbyshire from 2004 to the middle of the 2007 season when he quit ^[2].

[edit] References

1. ^ Dave Houghton was a great sportsman in and beyond cricket.
2. ^ Dave Houghton quits Derbyshire

[edit] External links

• Cricinfo page on David Houghton

Preceded by None

Zimbabwean national cricket captain 1992/3

Succeeded by Andy Flower

v • d • e Zimbabwe squad - 1983 Cricket World Cup 1 Fletcher (c) • 2 Brown • 3 Butchart • 4 Curran • 5 Heron • 6 Hick • 7 Hogg • 8 Houghton (wk) • 9 Paterson • 10 Peckover • 11 Pycroft • 12 Rawson • 13 Shah • 14 Traicos

v • d • e Zimbabwe squad - 1987 Cricket World Cup 1 Traicos (c) • 2 Arnott • 3 Brandes • 4 Brown • 5 Butchart • 6 Curran • 7 Houghton (wk) • 8 Jarvis • 9 Meman • 10 Paterson • 11 Pycroft • 12 Rawson • 13 Shah • 14 Waller

v • d • e Zimbabwe squad - 1992 Cricket World Cup 1 Houghton (c) • 2 Arnott • 3 Brandes • 4 Burmester • 5 Butchart • 6 Campbell • 7 Duers • 8 A Flower (wk) • 9 James • 10 Jarvis • 11 Pycroft • 12 Shah • 13 Traicos • 14 Waller