30 Facts About Derek Pringle

Derek Raymond Pringle was born on 18 September 1958 and is a Kenyan-born English former Test and One Day International cricketer for England, and is a cricket journalist.

Derek Pringle was a part of the English squads which finished as runners-up at the 1987 Cricket World Cup and as runners-up at the 1992 Cricket World Cup.

Derek Pringle was a member of the successful Essex sides of the 1980s and early 1990s, alongside cricketers such as Graham Gooch, Mark Waugh, Nasser Hussain, John Lever and Neil Foster, which in that period won the County Championship six times.

In 1982, while captain of the university, he was selected for England Derek Pringle went on to play 30 Tests, the last of which was in 1992, scoring 695 runs and taking 70 wickets.

Derek Pringle played in 44 One-Day Internationals between 1982 and 1993.

Derek Pringle appeared in two World Cups and was a member of England's 1992 World Cup Final team.

Derek Pringle was recalled to the England team for the start of 1984, but was powerless to prevent a series of Test defeats by the all-conquering touring West Indies cricket team.

Derek Pringle did however take his first Test five-wicket haul in the first Test match at Birmingham, and could claim to be the only English player to be man of the match in a victory over the West Indies that summer, in the second one-day international at Nottingham.

Derek Pringle played in the first three-match series of the summer, bowling adequately but having his batting exposed by the Indian spin attack, particularly Maninder Singh.

Derek Pringle did however make his only Test half-century in the first match of this series at Lord's, adding 147 in a partnership with Graham Gooch.

Derek Pringle did not return to the side until the following winter's tour to India and Pakistan for the 1987 World Cup, as Botham had decided not to tour.

Again recalled for the home series against West Indies in 1988, Derek Pringle took immediate action by taking five wickets in the Texaco Trophy series and making a crucial 39 in the second game at Headingley, which proved to be the difference between the two teams.

Derek Pringle again bowled adequately in the first two Tests but, batting at number six, was exposed against the firepower of the West Indies pace attack.

David Capel replaced him for Manchester, but a poor performance from Capel saw Derek Pringle recalled again for Headingley where he took five wickets.

Derek Pringle took three more at the Oval in the fifth Test, and briefly captained the team from the evening of the third day after Graham Gooch sustained a serious finger injury attempting to take a catch at first slip from Desmond Haynes.

The "in-out" nature of Derek Pringle's selection continued again in 1989.

Botham and Derek Pringle played together in the Texaco Trophy, but Botham sustained a facial injury facing Glamorgan bowler Steve Barwick.

Derek Pringle was dropped until the final Test of the series at the Oval, where he took four wickets in the Australian first innings and was England's most successful bowler.

Derek Pringle took five wickets in the first innings at Lord's, giving him an unusual hat-trick of three five-wicket hauls in Test match cricket against the West Indies, one coming on each of three successive West Indies tours of England.

Derek Pringle shared in a ninth-wicket partnership of 92 with Chris Lewis in the second innings at Birmingham; however this was his team's largest partnership of the match and this time Derek Pringle finished on the losing side.

Derek Pringle was forced to withdraw with tonsillitis from the final Test of the series, which England won, meaning that his replacement Botham finally had the experience Derek Pringle had enjoyed earlier in the summer of being on the winning side in a Test match against the West Indies.

Botham played his last Test at Lord's, and Derek Pringle was dropped until the Headingley Test match.

Headingley was the ground where he took more of his Test wickets than any other, and again, Derek Pringle was instrumental in England's win versus Pakistan, and the selectors persisted with him for the Oval.

Derek Pringle eventually became a cult figure late in his career.

Derek Pringle once damaged his back when his chair collapsed, forcing him to withdraw from a Test match, although the story usually told is that he sustained the injury whilst writing a letter.

In 2004 Derek Pringle was threatened with deportation by the Mugabe administration in Zimbabwe during an England cricket tour of the country.

Derek Pringle has eclectic tastes in fashion and music in comparison to his former team-mates.

Derek Pringle's interests include archaeology, photography, writing, real ale, and more obscure musical trends.

Derek Pringle appeared as an extra in the film Chariots of Fire.

Derek Pringle was a Technical Advisor to the Oman cricket team in 2015, helping them qualify for their first ever World T20 Tournament the following year.