Ashley Giles

Quick Facts

Full Name	Ashley Giles
Occupation	Cricket Player
Date Of Birth	Mar 19, 1973(1973-03-19)
Age	51
Birthplace	England
Country	United Kingdom
Birth City	England
Horoscope	Pisces

Ashley Giles Biography

Ashley Giles is one of the most popular and richest Cricket Player who was born on March 19, 1973 in England, England, United Kingdom. In a fourteen year career spent entirely with the Warwickshire County Cricket Club he was named the 2005 Wisden Cricketer of the Year.

Geoff Pullar also won the Wisden Cricketer of the Year award.

Giles advanced through the county age-groups, and toured Barbados with Surrey Young Cricketers in 1990/91. While at Guildford, an injury forced Giles to try bowling spin, which brought him some success. Giles made his debut for the Surrey Second XI in 1990, and was named Surrey Young Cricketer of the Year in

1991. The following season, he played one further match for Surrey but they were unable to offer him a professional contract. After an initial trial with Dennis Amiss, Giles was awarded a one-year contract Warwickshire County Cricket Club.

Between 1992 and 1995, Giles played the majority of his games for Warwickshire Second XI, scoring over 2,500 runs and taking 165 wickets in this period. He made his first-class debut for Warwickshire against Kent in May 1993; his second match was against Durham later that season. In September 1993, he made his List A debut against the touring Zimbabweans, his first wicket being that of Grant Flower, although it would not be until the tail-end of the 1995 season before Giles began to cement his place in the Warwickshire side taking 16 wickets at an average of 22.12 (in 6 matches). In 1996 Giles won the NBC Denis Compton Award, and before his debut for the full national side in 1998 he toured Australia, Sri Lanka and Kenya with the England A team.

He married and had two children named Anders Fraser and Matilde.

Ashley Giles Net Worth

Ashley Giles is one of the richest Cricket Player from United Kingdom. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Ashley Giles 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

He made his international test debut on July 2nd, 1998 versus South Africa.

He has earned several nicknames through his career such as King of Spain and The Wheelie Bin.

Ashley Fraser Giles MBE (born 19 March 1973) is a former English first-class cricketer, who played 54 Test matches and 62 One Day Internationals for England before being forced to retire due to a recurring hip injury. Giles played the entirety of his 14-year first-class career at Warwickshire County Cricket Club.

Height, Weight & Body Measurements

Ashley Giles height 6 feet 4 inches Ashley weight Not Known & body measurements will update soon.

Who is Ashley Giles Dating?

According to our records, Ashley Giles married to Stine Giles. As of December 1, 2023, Ashley Giles’s is not dating anyone.

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Until 2004, his most successful bowling had been in Pakistan and Sri Lanka, and that year started with an uninspiring performance in the Caribbean. However, in July 2004 he recorded match-figures of 9–210 in the first Test at Lord’s (including his 100th Test wicket, Brian Lara), which won him the Man of the Match award. He followed this with his best Test-figures of 9–122 in the second Test at Edgbaston, and was instrumental in England beating West Indies twice. In that series he gained the nickname “King of Spain”, after a set of mugs ordered in 2000 (for his testimonial year) were erroneously printed with that slogan, instead of “King of Spin”. There were originally only two of these mugs produced, one of which Giles used for his coffee in the dressing room (this mug was subsequently stolen), and another on display in the club shop. However, after the error was publicised, a further two hundred mugs were produced with King Juan Carlos on the other side and were snapped up by Warwickshire fans.

Facts & Trivia

Ashley Ranked on the list of most popular Cricket Player. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United Kingdom. Ashley Giles celebrates birthday on March 19 of every year.

Fans during the Ashes series of 2005 also regularly sang “Y viva España” in Giles’ honour. Giles was, until that successful run of form, also gently derided by commentators: the BBC’s Test Match Special commentator Henry Blofeld famously labelled him a “Wheelie bin” because of his trundling run-up, much to Giles’ disgust. Blofeld however, insisted that the moniker was not malicious. (It was originally bestowed on Giles by The Guardian journalist David Hopps.)

Where is Ashley Giles now?

This came to a head in 2004 when Giles considered retirement before a match- winning 9-wicket haul against the West Indies gave him the confidence to perform at the highest level. He became the Managing Director Men’s Cricket for England in December 2018.

Why is Ashley Giles called the King of Spain?

The England spinner was known as ‘The King of Spain’ after mugs adorned with Giles in full bowling action were misprinted – they were meant to read ‘The King of Spin’ – a questionable slogan anyway given his reputation for ‘arm- balls’.

Was Ashley Giles good?

Ashley Giles was England’s best slow bowler during the early 2000’s. Giles, who had one of the most fluent bowling action, began as a fast bowler initially but an injury at a young age forced him to turn into a spinner. He later enjoyed a great amount of success as a left arm orthodox.

How old is Ashley Giles?

49 years (March 19, 1973)

How tall is Ashley Giles?

6′ 4″