Graeme Hick

Quick Facts

Full Name	Graeme Hick
Occupation	Cricket Player
Date Of Birth	May 23, 1966(1966-05-23)
Age	58
Country	Zimbabwe
Birth City	Harare
Horoscope	Taurus

Graeme Hick Biography

Graeme Hick is one of the most popular and richest Cricket Player who was born on May 23, 1966 in Harare, Zimbabwe. The record-holder for the all professional matches played, scoring more than 40000 first-class runs. He was a player for Worcestershire between 1984 and 2008.

Both he and He and Darren Gough are two of the very few Englishman to have won one hundred or more caps in ODI’s. are two of the few Englishman who have earned at least one hundred cap in the ODI’s.

The following summer, Hick made a major contribution to his county’s first County Championship title since 1974. He became the first man since Glenn Turner, and only the eighth in history, to hit 1,000 first-class runs before the end of May, with 410 of those runs coming in April alone, a record for that month until Ian Bell scored 480 in April 2005. In the first week of May he made his highest first-class score, 405 not out against Somerset, and at that point the thousand seemed almost inevitable. However, Hick’s next four innings totalled a mere 32, leaving him with the daunting task of making 153 runs in the last match of the month, against the touring West Indians at New Road. Hick did it on the first day, ending 172 not out and scoring a total of 1,019 runs before the end of May. In all that season he scored a career-best aggregate of 2,713 runs including ten first-class hundreds, matching the Worcestershire record set by Glenn Turner in 1970. One of these, a 79-ball knock against Surrey in August, won the Walter Lawrence Trophy for the fastest century of the season. To cap it all, he was also named Player of the Year by the Professional Cricketers’ Association.

Born in Salisbury, Rhodesia (now Harare, Zimbabwe) into a tobacco-farming family, Hick was at first more interested in hockey than cricket, and indeed went on to play for the national schools hockey team. He was also more of a bowler than a batsman, but in 1979 he began to make big scores regularly, averaging 185 for the school side. He suffered from a mild form of meningitis in 1980, but he nevertheless progressed to become captain of the national Junior Schools team, and before long to play for the Senior Schools side. He attended Prince Edward School.

He got married to an therapist by the name of Jackie.

Graeme Hick Net Worth

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

He was a former hockey player who played for the national soccer team from Zimbabwe.

He became the youngest athlete ever ever representing Zimbabwe during the Cricket World Cup at age 16.

Graeme Ashley Hick MBE (born 23 May 1966) is a Zimbabwean-born former England cricketer who played 65 Test matches and 120 One Day Internationals for England. He was born in Rhodesia, and as a young man played international cricket for Zimbabwe. He played English county cricket for Worcestershire for his entire English domestic career, a period of well over twenty years, and in 2008 surpassed Graham Gooch’s record for the most matches in all forms of the game combined.

Height, Weight & Body Measurements

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Who is Graeme Hick Dating?

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By the time the 1986 season was out, the possibility of Hick’s playing at Test level was being taken seriously, and the debate was shifting from whether he would play international cricket to which country he would represent. At the time, Zimbabwe seemed a long way from Test status, so he set himself instead to fulfil the residency requirements for England qualification, and despite an offer of a four-year qualification period from New Zealand he opted to take the longer path of a seven-year wait to play for his newly adopted home. By the time he became eligible, public interest in his seeming destiny as a great batsman for country as well as county was intense; David Lloyd was later to write that he doubted “any cricketer [had] ever come into the international game burdened by such impossible expectations”. Hick’s Worcestershire teammate Graham Dilley had been in no doubt that he would succeed, perhaps ironically given what was to follow writing that Hick exerted “psychological pressure on the bowlers, like Viv Richards or Javed Miandad.”

Facts & Trivia

Graeme Ranked on the list of most popular Cricket Player. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in Zimbabwe. Graeme Hick celebrates birthday on May 23 of every year.

In both 1987–88 and 1988–89 Hick spent his winters playing in New Zealand for Northern Districts. He was a great success, hitting ten centuries in all and averaging 63.61 in the former season and a startling 94.46 in the latter; in one game against Auckland he scored a first-class record 173 runs between tea and close of play. It was at this time that John Bracewell called him a “flat- track bully”, a comment which was to dog Hick throughout his England career. Back in England, the 1989 season when Worcestershire retained the Championship (with Hick’s 26 wickets at under 20 the best return of his career) and, especially, the “batsmen’s paradise” 1990 season saw Hick continue to pile up the big scores. He scored well over 4,000 first-class runs in the two years combined and averaged 90.46 in 1990, his highest average in any English summer and overall second only to his aforementioned New Zealand season. He followed that up with a reasonably successful winter playing for Queensland, and in March 1991 scored 91 for Worcestershire against Zimbabwe at Harare, but already the public’s mind was firmly on the summer, when he would qualify to play for England.

What does Graeme Hick do now?

Australia appoint Graeme Hick as high performance coach Hick fills the role vacated by former Australian Test player Stuart Law, who took up the position as head coach at Queensland Cricket following Darren Lehmann’s departure in June.

How good was Graeme Hick?

He scored more than 40,000 first-class runs, mostly from number three in the order, and he is one of only three players to have passed 20,000 runs in List A cricket (Graham Gooch and Sachin Tendulkar are the others) and is one of only twenty-five players to have scored 100 centuries in first-class cricket.

Who has most first class runs?

RunsPlayerMatches
61,760| Jack Hobbs (Surrey and England)| 834
58,959| Frank Woolley (Kent and England)| 978
57,611| Patsy Hendren (Middlesex and England)| 833
55,061| Phil Mead (Hampshire and England)| 814

Who is Australia's batting coach?

Former Test and Victoria seamer Clint McKay will join the coaching staff for the T20 and ODI component of the tour, as previously revealed by cricket.com.au, along with McDonald, batting coach Michael Di Venuto and spin coach Sri Sriram before Borovec and Vettori commence their roles for the Test series.

Why did Graeme Hick fail?

Twice Hick fell cheaply, caught in the covers off poorly executed strokes. Throughout, he seemed stiff. Of course, he was not alone in his failures. But his failures have always been noticed, because of the expectations, and his appearance, and his extraordinary successes.