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Stuart MacGill

Full Name
Stuart Charles Glyndwr MacGill
Born
25-02-1971 Mount Lawley, Perth, Western Australia, Australia
Current Age
51 years old
Major Teams
Australia
Batting Style
Right-hand bat
Bowling Style
Leg-break googly
Stuart MacGill

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Stuart MacGill Biography

It was a cruel, cruel joke of fate that Stuart MacGill had to share space and time with a maverick genius called Shane Warne. Hence, one of the best leg-spinners of his era, certainly the most complete and classical considering the weaponry of a huge leg-break and a superb googly, played only a handful of Test matches.
 
Yet, in the limited opportunities that came his way, when Warne was out treating injuries or being disciplined, or in the rare games in which they were allowed to bowl in tandem, MacGill did manage to carve a niche for himself that remains glittering in its own right.
 
The 44 Tests saw him pick up 208 wickets, with an average of 29 that revealed the only weakness of his — the propensity of sending down one boundary ball per over. However, his strike rate reads a staggering 54.0. It is better than any spinner in history with hundred or more wickets, barring the pre-World War One trio of Bobby Peel, Colin Blythe and Johnny Briggs. He captured wickets faster than even the demonic Muttiah Muralitharan, and consumed three and a half balls less per dismissal than Warne.
 
In those 44 Tests were squeezed in 12 five-wicket hauls and two ten-fors. And against the spin-seasoned Pakistanis, he captured 23 wickets in four Tests at 25 apiece — a testimony to his class.
 
An endearing, old fashioned, rabbit with the bat, he was as unlike an Aussie cricketer as one could get. In the midst of hard-core beer drinking mates, he stuck out like a sore thumb as a wine connoisseur. Yet he managed to become one of the cherished and respected members of a great, great team.
 
And in spite of being an exact contemporary of Warne, he did enough to be counted as one of the long line of excellent leg-spin googly bowlers produced by the land, starting from Ranji Hordern, to Arthur Mailey, to Clarrie Grimmett and Bill O'Reilly, to Richie Benaud and finally Shane Warne himself. It is a pity that the selectors favoured the three pacers and one spinner combination, and not for the fascinating spin-twin in the lines of Grimmett-O'Reilly. If their outlook had been different, one can only wonder what MacGill would have ended up with.
 
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Stuart MacGill Batting & Fielding Averages

Career M In R NO HS Avg BF SR 100s 50s 4s 6s Ct St
Test 44 47 349 11 43 9.694 715 48.81 0 0 38 2 16 0
ODIs 3 2 1 1 1 1.000 3 33.33 0 0 0 0 2 0
T20s 0 -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- --
World Cup 0 -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- --

Stuart MacGill Bowling Averages

Career M B R W Avg EC SR 5WI 10WM BBI BBM
Test 44 11237 6038 208 29.02 3.224 54. 12 2 8/108 12/107
ODIs 3 180 105 6 17.50 3.500 30.00 0 0 4/19 4/19
T20s 0 -- -- -- -- -- -- -- --
World Cup 0 -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- 4/19

Stuart MacGill Career statistics

Test Debut

Australia v South Africa at Adelaide Oval, Adelaide, January 30, 1998

Last Test

West Indies v Australia at Sir Vivian Richards Stadium, North Sound, May 30, 2008

ODI Debut

Australia v Pakistan at Sydney Cricket Ground, Sydney, January 19, 2000

Last ODI

Australia v India at Adelaide Oval, Adelaide, January 26, 2000

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