Darren Lee Maddy was born on 23 May 1974 and is an English former professional cricketer who played for Leicestershire and Warwickshire County Cricket Clubs and for the England cricket team.
14 Facts About Darren Maddy
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Darren Maddy was born at Leicester in 1974 and educated at Wreake Valley College.
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Darren Maddy left school to join Leicestershire aged 17 and made his senior debut for the county towards the end of the 1993 English cricket season in a one-day match against Derbyshire at Grace Road.
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Darren Maddy made his first-class cricket debut the following season and played regularly for Leicestershire between 1995 and 2006.
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Darren Maddy was awarded his county cap in 1996 and won the County Championship with the side in 1996 and 1998 and the Twenty20 Cup in 2004 and 2006.
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Darren Maddy led Warwickshire to the County Championship Division Two title in 2008 and won the County Championship with the side in 2012 as well as the Yorkshire Bank 40 in 2010.
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Darren Maddy played for the county until the end of the 2013 season, announcing his retirement from cricket part way through the season.
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Darren Maddy scored over 13,000 runs and took more than 250 wickets in first-class county matches during his domestic career as well as scoring over 9,000 runs and taking over 220 wickets in one-day county cricket.
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Darren Maddy was the first player to score 1,000 runs in Twenty20 cricket.
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Darren Maddy played three Test matches and eight ODIs for England between 1998 and 2000.
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Darren Maddy made his international debut in an ODI against South Africa at The Oval in May 1998 and his Test debut on the same ground against New Zealand in August 1999.
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Darren Maddy played four matches during the tournament, scoring a half-century and taking three wickets, his only international wickets.
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In May 2022, Darren Maddy was named as the coach of the Croatia national cricket team, ahead of their ICC Men's T20 World Cup Europe Qualifier matches in Finland in July 2022.
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In 2013 Darren Maddy took up a coaching role at Solihull School as Master in charge of Cricket.