38 Facts About Mark Ramprakash

Mark Ravin Ramprakash was born on 5 September 1969 and is an English former cricketer and cricket coach.

Mark Ramprakash is currently the President and batting coach for Middlesex.

Mark Ramprakash became a particularly prolific run scorer when he moved to Surrey in 2001, averaging over 100 runs per innings in two successive seasons.

Mark Ramprakash is one of only 25 players in the history of the sport to have scored 100 first-class centuries.

Mark Ramprakash returned to Middlesex as a consultant batting coach in 2022, a role, he has combined with a director of cricket role for Harrow School.

Mark Ramprakash was born in Bushey, Hertfordshire, and is of Indo-Guyanese and English descent.

Mark Ramprakash's father, born in British Guiana, was Indo-Guyanese and his mother was English.

Mark Ramprakash attended Gayton High School, and then Harrow Weald Sixth Form College.

Mark Ramprakash played his first match for Middlesex aged just 17, scoring 63 not out against Yorkshire, and top-scoring with 71 in his second match against Essex at Chelmsford.

Mark Ramprakash scored his maiden first-class century at Headingley against Yorkshire in 1989, and captained the England U-19 team.

Mark Ramprakash came to national prominence when, at the age of 18, he won the man-of-the match award in the 1988 NatWest Trophy Final after his innings of 56 helped Middlesex beat Worcestershire.

Mark Ramprakash was selected for his first Test match for England against the West Indies at Headingley in 1991.

Mark Ramprakash played all 6 test matches in 1991 but managed a 0 against the lesser pace of Sri Lanka.

Mark Ramprakash was recalled to the England team for the final Test of the 1993 Ashes series.

Mark Ramprakash was in and out of the England team over the next few years, never assured of selection but still scoring very heavily for Middlesex.

Mark Ramprakash was not picked again after England's tour of New Zealand in March 2002.

Mark Ramprakash's move to Surrey seemed to backfire in 2005 when Surrey were relegated after a poor season.

However, in their final Championship game, against Middlesex, who were in danger of relegation themselves, Mark Ramprakash gained consolation by hitting 252, sharing a Surrey record for a fifth-wicket partnership of 318 with Azhar Mahmood as Surrey made 686 for five declared, and duly won by an innings and 39 runs.

In 2006, Mark Ramprakash, relieved of the unwanted burden of captaincy, displayed very good form, making a career-best 292 against Gloucestershire in May, then improving that still further with 301 not out against Northamptonshire in early August.

Mark Ramprakash, the leading run scorer in 2006, was the first man to score 2,000 runs in a season since the Australian Mike Hussey in 2001, and the first Englishman to do it since Mark Ramprakash himself back in 1995.

Mark Ramprakash became the first man to score over 150 runs in an innings in five consecutive matches.

Mark Ramprakash ended with 2,278 runs at an average of 103.54, only the sixth man to average over one hundred over eight or more completed first-class innings in an English season.

Mark Ramprakash's form led some commentators to say that the England selectors should consider him for that winter's Ashes tour: Mike Selvey called him "the best technician of his generation with a good record in trying circumstances in Australia" and said that he should be considered as a possible replacement for Marcus Trescothick.

Mark Ramprakash finished the season with 2,026 first-class runs, including ten centuries, at an average of 101.30, becoming the only man to average over 100 in two consecutive English seasons.

Mark Ramprakash himself stated that whilst he found this attention flattering, he had more or less abandoned any hope of being recalled to the England team, given the present selection policy targeted towards youth.

Mark Ramprakash finally scored his 100th 100 against Yorkshire at Headingley on 2 August 2008, becoming only the 25th player to reach this mark.

Mark Ramprakash then hit 200 not out vs Somerset to get his 101st first-class hundred.

Mark Ramprakash was in the spotlight for all the wrong reasons, when the England and Wales Cricket Board banned him for two County Championship matches, for losing his famous temper and repeatedly swearing at an umpire.

In 2009, there was, yet again, much media speculation that Mark Ramprakash should receive an England call up for the final Test match of the 2009 Ashes series.

In 2011, Mark Ramprakash was suspended by Surrey for their CB40 game with Northants after he showed "serious dissent" to umpires in the previous match when he had been given out 'obstructing the field.

In 2012, Mark Ramprakash was picked to captain MCC in their match against Lancashire opening the 2012 English cricket season.

Mark Ramprakash was appointed Member of the Order of the British Empire in the 2013 New Year Honours for services to sport.

In May 2014 it was reported that Mark Ramprakash was interested in replacing Graham Gooch as England's batting coach and, after some press speculation, his appointment was announced in November 2014.

In July 2019, Mark Ramprakash was appointed as the head coach of the Edinburgh Rocks for the inaugural edition of the Euro T20 Slam cricket tournament.

Mark Ramprakash was the second consecutive cricketer to win the show, following former England team mate Darren Gough.

Mark Ramprakash was on the books of Watford FC as a schoolboy, but gave up the game to concentrate on cricket.

Mark Ramprakash is a supporter of Arsenal Football Club and plays for the Arsenal Ex-Pros and Celebrities side.

On 9 March 2008 Mark Ramprakash appeared on the CBBC show Hider in the House, setting up dad Ian Smeeton, with Ian's wife Wendy, two children Will and Pippa Smeeton, and their friend Dougy in Cambridge.