Michael Yardy
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| Full name | Michael Howard Yardy | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born |
27 November 1980 Pembury, Kent, England |
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| Nickname | Yards, Paolo, Barney | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 6 ft 0 in (1.83 m) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Batting style | Left-handed | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Slow left-arm orthodox Left-arm medium |
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| Role | All-rounder | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| ODI debut (cap 198) | 8 September 2006 v Pakistan | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Last ODI | 6 March 2011 v South Africa | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| T20I debut (cap 20) | 28 August 2006 v Pakistan | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Last T20I | 14 January 2011 v Australia | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| T20I shirt no. | 40 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| 1999–2015 | Sussex (squad no. 20) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2010–2011 | Central Districts | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Source: Cricket Archive, 26 September 2015 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Michael Howard Yardy (born 27 November 1980) is a former English cricketer. He is a left-handed batsman and former Sussex County Cricket Club captain whose unusual technique has attracted a great deal of attention due to a pronounced shuffle from leg to off immediately prior to the bowler releasing the ball. Yardy also bowls slow left arm with a characteristic round armed action similar to that of Australia's Darren Lehmann, and is used as a bowling all-rounder in England's ODI and Twenty20 teams. On 21 July 2015, Yardy announced that he would retire from cricket at the end of the current season.
Yardy made his Sussex debut in an early-season NatWest Trophy game against Hertfordshire in May 1999, although it was not a very successful way to begin his career: opening the batting, he was lbw for nought and went for 14 from two wicketless overs. He also played a one-day game against Sri Lanka A, again with little success, and though he played a few games the following year it was only in 2001 that he became anything like a regular in the side. He played ten games in 2002, but only seven in total over the next two years, before returning with a vengeance in 2005.
He enjoyed an excellent domestic summer that season, making 1,520 first-class runs at 56.29 with five centuries, including a career-best 257 against the Bangladeshis in May. Only Murray Goodwin, who hit 344* in 2009, had made a higher score for Sussex since the Second World War. In the one-day game, Yardy was less successful with the bat, averaging well under 20, but he achieved a career-best bowling performance of 6-27 against Warwickshire in the totesport League.
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