Dennis Leslie Amiss was born on 7 April 1943 and is a former English cricketer and cricket administrator.
19 Facts About Dennis Amiss
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Dennis Amiss was an accomplished batsman in all forms of the game.
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Dennis Amiss averaged 42.86 in first-class, 35.06 in List-A, 46.30 in Tests and 47.72 in One Day Internationals.
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Dennis Amiss suffered a serious back injury whilst playing football in his teenage years, which entailed him starting each day of his sporting life undergoing stretching routines to loosen up.
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Dennis Amiss made his Test debut for England in the fifth Test of the 1966 series with West Indies, and he proved an accomplished Test match batsman.
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Dennis Amiss was one of the first batsmen to use a protective helmet.
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In scoring 3,612 Test runs, Dennis Amiss made eleven half-centuries and eleven centuries, including two double centuries against the West Indies.
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Dennis Amiss's former Warwickshire teammate, Jack Bannister, stated "Dennis was always tinkering with his game, he was a bigger perfectionist than Colin Cowdrey".
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Dennis Amiss was a handy One Day International batsman scoring 859 runs, including four centuries and one half-century, with a top score of 137 against India which is still England's fourth highest individual score in the Cricket World Cup, behind the 158 scored by Andrew Strauss against India in 2011, Jason Roy's 153 against Bangladesh in 2019, and Eoin Morgan's 148 against Afghanistan at the same tournament.
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Dennis Amiss has the distinction of scoring the first ever One Day International century which is the first instance of a debutant scoring a century in ODI.
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Dennis Amiss ended with an ODI batting average of 47.72, which excepting those players to have played fewer than five times, remains the third highest of any England batsman who has completed his career.
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Dennis Amiss played World Series Cricket in the late 1970s in Australia; during the 1978 World Series Cricket tournament, he became the first player to wear a batting helmet regularly.
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Dennis Amiss was banned from international cricket for three years for taking part in the first 'rebel' tour of South Africa in 1982.
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Dennis Amiss was selected as one of the five Wisden Cricketers of the Year in 1975.
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Dennis Amiss was awarded an MBE in 1988; in 2007 he received a Doctor of the University from the University of Birmingham.
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Dennis Amiss is the first player in ODI cricket to have scored a century on both his debut and in his last match, the only other being Desmond Haynes.
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On 7 June 1975 at Lord's in the first match of the Prudential World Cup Dennis Amiss smashed 137 runs in just 147 balls against India powered by 18 boundaries.
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Dennis Amiss's innings provided enough leverage for England to post a very imposing and improbable target of 335 for India to be chased down within a span of 60 overs.
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Dennis Amiss has shown gratitude to the Indian trio of Bishen Bedi, Venkatraghavan and Abid Ali who had bowled to him in practice which enabled Dennis Amiss to get adjusted to Indian condition, especially spin bowling.