Stephen Parry (cricketer)

Stephen Parry

Personal information
Full name	Stephen David Parry
Born	(1986-01-12) 12 January 1986 Manchester, England
Height	6 ft 0 in (1.83 m)
Batting style	Right-hand
Bowling style	Slow left arm orthodox
Role	Bowler
Domestic team information
Years	Team
2007–present	Lancashire (squad no. 4)
Career statistics
Competition FC LA T20 Matches 3 39 47 Runs scored 3 142 52 Batting average 1.50 10.92 8.66 100s/50s 0/0 0/0 0/0 Top score 2 31 11 Balls bowled 523 1,672 1,050 Wickets 9 45 56 Bowling average 28.44 31.82 21.21 5 wickets in innings 1 0 0 10 wickets in match 0 – – Best bowling 5/23 4/29 4/23 Catches/stumpings 1/– 10/– 7/–
Source: CricketArchive.com, 27 June 2012

Stephen David Parry (born 12 January 1986 in Manchester) is an English cricketer. He is a right-handed batsman and a slow left-arm bowler who currently plays for Lancashire.

Parry made two appearances in the 2005 Minor Counties Championship season, as well as appearing in the MCCA Trophy for Cumberland, and was both his league's Player of the Season and Bowler of the Season in helping his club Northern to their ECB Premier League championship success of that year^[1].

In the second innings of Parry's debut first-class match, against Durham UCCE in April 2007, he picked up five wickets, including that of former Derbyshire squad-member Christopher Paget, though he did not contribute with the bat. At the end of the 2009 season, Parry was named Lancashire's Young Player of the Year.^[2]

In April 2010, immediately before the start of the English cricket season, Lancashire's experienced and established spinner, Gary Keedy, suffered a broken collar bone. With several months on the sidelines, Keedy's absence gave the opportunity to young spinners Parry and Simon Kerrigan to play first-team cricket. Lancashire coach Peter Moores said "We're lucky in some ways in that we've got Stephen Parry, who played quite a lot of first-team cricket last season, but we've also got Simon Kerrigan, who bowled beautifully to take six wickets in the pre-season game against Yorkshire in Barbados and we could also use Steven Crofty's off-spin".^[3] Kerrigan was chosen ahead of Parry in the four-day team and cemented his place in the side.^[4] However, following a string of impressive twenty20 performances for Lancashire Lightning during the 2010 season, Parry was called up to the England Lions squad for their triangular series with India A and West Indies A. At the time of his selection, he was Lancashire's leading wicket-taker in the 2010 Friends Provident t20,^[5] and he finished as the competition's fourth-highest wicket-taker in 2010.^[6] He made his debut for the Lions on 8 July in their victory over India A; Parry took three wickets in the match.^[7]

Parry bowling in a twenty20 match against Durham in 2012

As in the previous year, Parry was unable to break into Lancashire's team in the 2011 County Championship,^[8] but was a regular in the list A and twenty20 sides, playing 12 and 17 matches in the respective formats.^[9][10] His 13 list A wickets cost on average 32.30 runs each,^[11] while his 17 twenty20 wickets came at 24.94 runs apiece.^[12] Speaking in 2011, Gary Keedy explained that he is concerned that spin bowlers who learn how to bowl in the one-day format before playing first-class cricket will not become as effective bowlers as those who transition the other way round. He remarked that Parry "is a very fine one-day bowler but I think he takes more pride in bowling a maiden than he does bowling somebody out."^[13]

In February 2014, Parry was named in England's squad for the limited-overs series in West Indies and the World Twenty20 in Bangladesh^[14].

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External links

• Stephen Parry at Cricket Archive
• Cricinfo player profile