Alex Glegg

Alex Glegg
Personal information
Full name Alexander Kenneth Lindsay Glegg
Born 9 August 1971
Rhodesia
Batting style Right-handed
Role Wicket-keeper
International information
National side
  • Canada (1996–1997)
Career statistics
Competition LA
Matches 8
Runs scored 142
Batting average 17.75
100s/50s 0/0
Top score 47
Catches/stumpings 7/0
Source: CricketArchive, 7 April 2015

Alexander Kenneth Lindsay "Alex" Glegg (born 9 August 1971) is a former Canadian cricketer. He represented the Canadian national side in several competitions during the 1990s.

Born in Rhodesia in 1971, Glegg's first recorded matches for Canada came in October 1996, during the 1996–97 season of the Shell/Sandals Trophy, the domestic one-day tournament in the West Indies.[1] The tournament, which held List A status, featured teams outside the scope of the West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) for the first time, with Canada and Bermuda participating as invitational teams.[2] Glegg, a right-handed wicket-keeper, featured in the last four of Canada's six games, missing out on the first two matches (against Jamaica and Trinidad and Tobago).[1] However, he was only wicket-keeper for the final match, against the Leeward Islands, with Shiv Seeram instead used as the team's primary keeper. Glegg opened the batting in every match he played, with his opening partners including Latchman Bhansingh (one game), the team's captain Ingleton Liburd (two games), and Brian Rajadurai (one game). His best performance came against Trinidad and Tobago, when he scored 37 before being bowled by West Indies international Phil Simmons.[3] Against Jamaica, he and Liburd put on a 69-run opening stand,[4] while on debut against the Leeward Islands he was the only Canadian top-order batsman to pass double figures, with the side bowled out for 74.[5]

Glegg's next appearances for Canada came at the 1997 ICC Trophy, played in Malaysia in March and April. With Danny Ramnarais preferred as wicket-keeper, he played in only two matches, against East and Central Africa in the group stages and against Hong Kong in the seventh-place playoff.[6] Glegg's batting performances (opening with Latchman Bhasingh and Desmond Chumney) were lacklustre, but he recorded three dismissals in each game, with three stumpings effected (off three different bowlers).[7] One of the batsmen he stumped was Hong Kong's Rahul Sharma, an ex-Ranji Trophy and future ODI player.[8] Glegg's last recorded matches for Canada came in October 1997, in the 1997–98 Red Stripe Bowl (the renamed Shell/Sandals Trophy). Featuring in all four of Canada's matches, he twice recorded ducks, against Guyana and the Leeward Islands.[9][10] However, against Guyana in the quarter-final (in what was to be his last list-A match), he scored 47 runs coming in fifth in the batting order, his highest list-A score. This included a 105-run fourth-wicket partnership with Paul Prashad.[11] Canada's wicket-keeper at its next international tournament, the 1998 Commonwealth Games, was Danny Ramnrais.[12] Glegg remained involved in Canadian cricket after finishing his playing career, as evidenced by his role as match referee at a 2006 international fixture between the Bermudian and Canadian women's national sides, played in Victoria, British Columbia.[13] His club cricket was played for the Meraloma Cricket Club, based in Vancouver.[14]

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 List A matches played by Alex Glegg – CricketArchive. Retrieved 7 April 2015.
  2. ↑ Shell/Sandals Trophy 1996/97 – CricketArchive. Retrieved 7 April 2015.
  3. ↑ Trinidad and Tobago v Canada, Shell/Sandals Trophy 1996/97 (Zone B) – CricketArchive. Retrieved 7 April 2015.
  4. ↑ Jamaica v Canada, Shell/Sandals Trophy 1996/97 (Zone B) – CricketArchive. Retrieved 7 April 2015.
  5. ↑ Leeward Islands v Canada, Shell/Sandals Trophy 1996/97 (Zone B) – CricketArchive. Retrieved 7 April 2015.
  6. ↑ ICC Trophy matches played by Alex Glegg – CricketArchive. Retrieved 7 April 2015.
  7. ↑ Canada v East and Central Africa, Carlsberg ICC Trophy 1996/97 (1st Round Group C) – CricketArchive. Retrieved 7 April 2015.
  8. ↑ Canada v Hong Kong, Carlsberg ICC Trophy 1996/97 (7th Place Play-off) – CricketArchive. Retrieved 7 April 2015.
  9. ↑ Leeward Islands v Canada, Red Stripe Bowl 1997/98 (Zone B) – CricketArchive. Retrieved 7 April 2015.
  10. ↑ Barbados v Canada, Red Stripe Bowl 1997/98 (Zone B) – CricketArchive. Retrieved 7 April 2015.
  11. ↑ Guyana v Canada, Red Stripe Bowl 1997/98 (Quarter-Final) – CricketArchive. Retrieved 7 April 2015.
  12. ↑ Batting and fielding for Canada, Commonwealth Games 1998/99 – CricketArchive. Retrieved 7 April 2015.
  13. ↑ Alex Glegg as referee in women's limited overs matches – CricketArchive. Retrieved 7 April 2015.
  14. ↑ (17 July 2014). "Meraloma Cricket Club 25th anniversary" – Canada Cricket Online. Retrieved 7 April 2015.

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