Graeme "Foxy" Fowler was born on 20 April 1957 and is an English former professional cricketer and cricket coach, who played for Lancashire County Cricket Club, England, and later for Durham.
14 Facts About Graeme Fowler
1.
2.
Graeme Fowler appeared in 21 Test matches and 26 One Day International for England, averaging 35.32 in his Test batting career.
3.
Graeme Fowler usually opened the batting for both county and country, and his most successful opening partnership was with Gehan Mendis between 1986 and 1993.
4.
Graeme Fowler made his Test debut in 1982, when sixteen England players were banned for three years for participating in the rebel tour of South Africa during the apartheid era.
5.
Graeme Fowler was not re-selected in Tests for the remainder of his career.
6.
Against New Zealand at The Oval in 1983, Graeme Fowler scored his first Test hundred, as Chris Tavare and he became the first England openers to score a century in the same Test innings for twenty three years.
7.
Graeme Fowler was the first player to achieve the feat of four consecutive fifty-plus scores in a World Cup, but these would be the only occasions that Fowler passed fifty in ODIs.
Related searches
Gehan Mendis 8.
Graeme Fowler is the only batsman to score two complete hundreds in a match with the aid of a runner.
9.
Graeme Fowler then scored exactly 100 before lunch on the second day with David Lloyd as his runner.
10.
In 1987, Graeme Fowler scored an unbeaten century in a Sunday League match against Somerset, despite an injury which forced him to bat with a runner.
11.
In 1992, Graeme Fowler suffered amongst others as Lancashire had a widescale clear-out of its playing staff.
12.
Graeme Fowler held the post of Senior Cricket Coach at Durham University until May 2015.
13.
Graeme Fowler has been open about his depression, including in his 2016 book Absolutely Foxed.
14.
Graeme Fowler made an appearance playing drums on Roy Harpers 1993 live album Unhinged.