29 Facts About Lou Vincent

Lou Vincent was born on 11 November 1978 and is a former New Zealand cricketer and opening batsman.

Lou Vincent has represented New Zealand in Test match, One Day International and Twenty20 International cricket as well as playing for Auckland in New Zealand domestic cricket and Worcestershire and Lancashire in English domestic cricket.

In December 2013 it emerged that Vincent was being investigated by the International Cricket Council's anti-corruption unit in relation to allegations of his involvement in the spot-fixing of dozens of professional cricket matches, including matches in the Indian Cricket League, the ECB 40, the Bangladesh Premier League and the Champions League Twenty20.

The England and Wales Cricket Board imposed a lifetime ban on Lou Vincent playing in any form of cricket, applying to sanctioned matches by the ECB, the International Cricket Council or any other national cricket federation.

Lou Vincent was born in Warkworth, New Zealand and is the son of well known ABC NewsRadio sports announcer Mike Lou Vincent.

At the age of 15, his parents separated with Mike and Lou Vincent moving to Adelaide in Australia where Lou Vincent began playing in the age-tournaments.

When Lou Vincent returned to New Zealand he had the opportunity to play for New Zealand in the 1998 Under 19 Cricket World Cup.

Lou Vincent played for Esholt Cricket Club of the Bradford Cricket League in England during the off season while continuing to play for Auckland in New Zealand domestic cricket.

Lou Vincent considered jockeying as a career and has umpired Australian Rules football.

Lou Vincent played for Auckland from 1997 to 2008 competing in the Plunket Shield First Class competition, the Ford Trophy Domestic One Day competition and the HRV Cup Twenty20 competition.

In 2006, Lou Vincent signed for Worcestershire to play county cricket for part of the English season.

Lou Vincent had played for Central Lancashire Cricket League side Rochdale in 2005 where he had an impressive league tally for the season of 656 before having to miss the last 10 games of the league after being called up for New Zealand's training camp ahead of a series in Zimbabwe.

Whilst playing for Ramsbottom, Lou Vincent signed for Lancashire as a replacement overseas player for the duration of the 2008 Twenty20 tournament.

Lou Vincent made his debut during the Championship game at Old Trafford between Lancashire and Nottinghamshire.

Lou Vincent made 5 in the first innings and 19 in the second innings with the match finished in a draw.

Lou Vincent made his Lancashire Twenty20 debut against Leicestershire hitting 31 from 26 balls with Lancashire won the game by 52 runs.

Lancashire won the game by 9 wickets and Lou Vincent was named man of the match.

The innings came after Lou Vincent was controversially dropped for the Yorkshire home game 72 hours earlier which Lancashire lost by 4 runs at Old Trafford.

Lou Vincent followed this up by hitting 56 from 36 balls in Lancashire's eighth Twenty20 group game against Nottinghamshire at Old Trafford.

Lou Vincent won the man of the match award for the second time in three days and helped secure Lancashire's qualification to the Quarter Finals where they were drawn to play Middlesex.

Lancashire announced that Lou Vincent was to stay on at the club as their overseas player for the remainder of the 2008 season.

In 2010 Lou Vincent played for Northants in the T20 competition.

Lou Vincent followed this up with 54 in the second innings.

Lou Vincent's innings came off just 120 balls, and included 16 fours and nine sixes.

Lou Vincent was recalled into the New Zealand squad for the Commonwealth Bank Tri Series due to the sudden retirement of veteran Nathan Astle midway through the series.

Lou Vincent played in the early stages of the 2007 World Cup in the Caribbean but after scoring a century and fielding well he caught a blow in the nets from Shane Bond and fractured his wrist.

Lou Vincent was replaced in the squad by Hamish Marshall.

Lou Vincent was banned from cricket for life on 1 July 2014 by the England and Wales Cricket Board for match fixing, after he admitted 18 breaches of the regulations including fixing the outcome of Sussex's match against Kent in 2011, along with Naved Arif, who received a life ban one month before him.

Lou Vincent released a statement on the day he received the life ban, admitting his involvement in match fixing.