17 Facts About Gladstone Small

Gladstone Cleophas Small was born on 18 October 1961 and is an English former cricketer, who played in 17 Test matches and 53 One Day Internationals for the England cricket team.

Gladstone Small 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.

Gladstone Small is a Trustee of the Hornsby Professional Cricketers' Fund charity.

Gladstone Small was born in Barbados, and moved to England shortly after his fourteenth birthday, which at the time was past the normal cut-off for a change of cricketing nationality.

Gladstone Small played in the final when Warwickshire won the NatWest Trophy in 1989 and 1993, and contributed when they won the 1997 Axa Life League and the 1995 County Championship.

Gladstone Small played his last first-class match in 1997 and his last one-day match in 1999.

Gladstone Small encountered early problems in his career with the no ball rule, on one occasion recording ten in a single over.

Gladstone Small was given the Man of the Match award, and this was to be the highlight of his career.

Gladstone Small topped the England bowling averages this series with 12 wickets at 15 runs each.

Gladstone Small was in England's squad for both the 1987 and 1992 Cricket World Cups, playing in the 1987 final, and the semi-final in 1992.

Gladstone Small was part of the England side which improbably beat a powerful West Indies team in Jamaica in 1990, England's first Test victory against the West Indies for sixteen years.

Gladstone Small took 17 wickets at 29.70 in this series, the most wickets of any England bowler except for Devon Malcolm, and the Wisden review of the series noted that Gladstone Small "bowled with dedicated skill and control".

An unpretentious lower-order batsman, Gladstone Small helped save a Test match when making his highest Test score, 59, against Australia in the sixth test at the Oval in 1989.

Gladstone Small's innings helped England save the follow on, a landmark which when achieved received an exaggerated ovation from England fans, who had seen their team humiliated during the rest of the series.

Gladstone Small was in the runs again the following year, making 44 not out as England beat New Zealand to record a rare series win, but was dropped from the Test side thereafter.

Gladstone Small was involved in an unusual incident in the third test of this series when wicketkeeper Jack Russell dismissed Dean Jones stumped off his bowling, at the time a manner of dismissal only common off spin bowlers.

Gladstone Small played his last full international in 1992, although the following year he hit the winning run as England won the Hong Kong Sixes tournament, featuring in the squad that retained the title the following year.