Jonathan Agnew

Jonathan Agnew

Agnew in the Adelaide Oval , 2006
Player information
Surname	Jonathan Philip Agnew
Nickname	Aggers, Spiro
Batting style	Right-handed
Bowling style	Right-arm almost
Player role	bowler
International games
National team	England
Test debut (cap 508)	9th August 1984 v  West Indies
Last test	6 August 1985 v  Australia
ODI debut (cap 77)	January 23, 1985 v  India
Last ODI	February 17, 1985 v  Australia
National teams
Years	team
1979-1992	Leicestershire
Career statistics
Game form	Testing	ODI	FC	LA
Games	3	3	218	147
Runs (total)	10	2	2,108	335
Batting average	10.00	-	11.51	9.30
100s / 50s	0/0	0/0	0/2	0/0
Highscore	5	2 *	90	26th
Balls	552	126	35,388	6,813
Wickets	4th	3	666	158
Bowling Average	93.25	40.00	29.25	29.26
5 wickets in innings	-	-	37	2
10 wickets in play	-	-	6th	-
Best bowling performance	2/51	3/38	9/70	5/30
Catches / stumpings	0 / -	1/-	39 / -	19 / -
Source: Cricinfo , March 19, 2016

Jonathan Agnew MBE (born April 4, 1960 in Macclesfield , Cheshire ) is a former English cricketer who now works as a radio commentator for Test Match Special .

Athletic career

Agnew played first-class cricket for Leicestershire in the County Championship from 1978 to 1990 . As a fast bowler , he achieved 666 wickets in 218 games. He was also used in 147 List A matches .

In 1984/85 he played in three test matches and three one-day internationals for England without having any particular success. The English team were in a difficult phase at the time after suffering massive defeats against the West Indies .

He had his best season in 1987 when he scored 101 wickets. The following year he was nominated as one of the five Wisden Cricketers of the Year . He ended his career very early for a cricketer at the age of 30.

In 1992 he played again in the Natwest Trophy final when Leicestershire was severely injured. However, his team lost.

commentator

Having already in his time as a commentator for BBC Radio Leicester, a local radio program the BBC had been working, Agnew was 1990 cricket correspondent of the short-lived newspaper Today.

He has been working for the BBC since 1991. The year before, he had already joined the reporter team for Test Match Special , the world's most famous live report in cricket, in which test matches and one-day internationals of the English team are broadcast. His nickname there is Aggers .

After Brian Johnston's death , he became the BBC's chief cricket reporter in 1994. Since then he has also headed the Test Match Special Team. His discussions and joint live reports with former English player and current commentator Geoffrey Boycott are widely appreciated.

Web links

Commons : Jonathan Agnew  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Short profile on Cricinfo
• Official page on Test Match Special
• Jonathan Agnews Myspace Page