Stuart MacGill
Australia
Personal information
Full name	Stuart Charles Glyndwr MacGill
Nickname	Mac
Born	25 February 1971 (1971-02-25) (age 36)
	Mount Lawley, Perth, Australia
Height	1.83 m (6 ft 0 in)
Batting style	Right-handed
Bowling style	Right-arm leg spin
International information
Test debut (cap 374)	30 January 1998: v South Africa
Last Test	08 November 2007: v Sri Lanka
ODI debut (cap 141)	19 January 2000: v Pakistan
Last ODI	26 January 2000:  v India
Domestic team information
Years	Team
1996 – present	New South Wales
2002 – 2004	Nottinghamshire
1997	Somerset
Career statistics
	Tests	ODI	FC	LA
Matches	40	3	176	107
Runs scored	347	1	1533	171
Batting average	10.20	1.00	10.08	7.77
100s/50s	0/0	0/0	0/2	0/0
Top score	43	1	56*	26
Balls bowled	10211	180	39433	5228
Wickets	202	6	743	193
Bowling average	27.20	17.50	29.96	22.52
5 wickets in innings	12	0	42	4
10 wickets in match	2	n/a	6	n/a
Best bowling	8/108	4/19	8/108	5/40
Catches/stumpings	16/–	2/–	73/–	22/–
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Stuart Charles Glyndwr MacGill (b. 25 February 1971, Mount Lawley, Perth) is a right-arm leg spin bowler of the Australian cricket team. Despite being credited with having the best strike rate of any modern leg-spin bowler, MacGill has not had a regular place in the Australian Test team, often being overlooked due to the dominance of Shane Warne in the position of sole spinner, for most of his career. He was recently brought back in 2007 after the retirement of Warne, as spinner for the first Test against the Sri Lankan cricket team. is the 56th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1971 (MCMLXXI) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display full calendar) of the 1971 Gregorian calendar. ... Mount Lawley is a suburb of Perth, Western Australia. ... Location of Perth within Australia This article is about the metropolitan area of Perth, Western Australia. ... Animation of a leg break. ... The Australian cricket team is the national cricket team of the Commonwealth of Australia. ... Strike rate refers to two different statistics in the sport of cricket. ... For the womens version of the game, see Womens Test cricket. ... Shane Keith Warne (born 13 September 1969 in Upper Ferntree Gully, Victoria), is an Australian cricketer and the current captain of Hampshire. ... The Sri Lankan cricket team is a national cricket team representing Sri Lanka. ...

MacGill is noted as an intellectual type, having once read 24 books on a tour of Pakistan^[1]. And at odds with his other beer-drinking teammates, MacGill is a keen wine connoisseur.

Early years

MacGill began his first class career in the 1993/94 season playing for Western Australia. He managed just one game, against New South Wales at the SCG but didn't take a wicket and didn't play again for over two years.^[2] When he returned in 1996/97 it was for New South Wales and he took 6 wickets in the match, the first being Darren Berry.^[3] He finished the season with 16 wickets at 37.00.^[4] The Western Warriors (referred to as Retravison Warriors for sponsorship reasons) are an Australian first class cricket team based in Perth, Western Australia. ... The New South Wales Blues are an Australian first class cricket team based in Sydney, New South Wales. ... Darren Berry (born 10 December, 1969), nicknamed Chuck is a former Australian cricketer who was known for his sharp skills as a wicketkeeper with Victoria in the Pura Cup and ING Cup domestic competitions. ...

He spent the English summer with Somerset and despite not playing in that year's County Championship he played a game against the touring Pakistan A side.^[5] Somerset County Cricket Club is a county cricket club with headquarters at the County Cricket Ground, Taunton. ...

1997/98 was the breakthrough season for MacGill, he made his his Test debut and finished with 35 wickets at 28.14 in the Sheffield Shield. The Pura Cup (formerly known as the Sheffield Shield) is the domestic first class cricket competition in Australia. ...

Test career

In the 3rd Test against South Africa at Adelaide in January 1998, MacGill was selected as Australia's second spinner and helped them to draw the match with 3 for 22 in the second innings.^[6] He next appeared in October of that year for a tour of Pakistan, finishing the series as Australia's top wicket taker with 15 victims at 27.46.^[7]

MacGill kept his spot in the side when they returned home for an Ashes series, again finishing as Australia's most successful bowler with 27 wickets at 17.70. His tally included his then career best innings figures of 7 for 50, made in the 5th Test at Sydney.^[8] He took a total of 12 wickets in that match and had done enough to convince the selectors to use two spinners for their tour of the West Indies.

After taking just 12 wickets from the four Tests he was dropped from the side, only returning when Australia hosted the West Indies in 2000/01. In a series whitewash, all the Australian bowlers bar MacGill, who took 16 wickets at 31.31, managed to average under 20 with the ball.^[9]

He played his next Test in January 2002 against South Africa, taking 7 wickets. With Warne unavailable for the 4th and 5th Tests of the 2002/03 Ashes series, MacGill came in and despite taking 12 wickets he averaged over 40.^[10]

With Shane Warne serving a drugs ban, MacGill returned to the Caribbean in 2003 and for the next year acted as Australia's sole spinner. In the 11 Tests that he played, including the Caribbean tour, he took 53 wickets. He played series against Bangladesh, Zimbabwe and India. Shane Keith Warne (born 13 September 1969 in Upper Ferntree Gully, Victoria), is an Australian cricketer and the current captain of Hampshire. ...

Sri Lanka toured Australia in 2004 and despite Warne returning to the side MacGill kept his spot. He struggled throughout the Test series and took just 5 wickets at 46.40.^[11] He lost his spot in the side and over the next year and a half played just two Tests, both on the spin friendly SCG wicket. The first was against Pakistan and his 8 wickets earned his the Man of the Match award. The second was against the ICC World XI and he managed 9 wickets.

MacGill partnered Warne when Australia hosted the West Indies for a Test series in 2005/06. He took 5 wickets at Hobart and just 2 in Adelaide. He played again the in Tests that followed, against South Africa and won a place in Australia's squad for their inaugural tour of Bangladesh. At Fatullah he took 8 for 108 in the first innings, his career best figures.^[12]

Warne retired from Test cricket at the end of the 2006-07 Ashes series, although MacGill faces competition for a place in the side from several younger players. MacGill was never a serious contender for the One-day International team, and has since retired from that form of the game. Teams Australia England Captains Ricky Ponting Andrew Flintoff Most Runs Ricky Ponting (576) Michael Hussey (458) Matthew Hayden (413) Kevin Pietersen (490) Paul Collingwood (433) Ian Bell (331) Most Wickets Stuart Clark (26) Shane Warne (23) Glenn McGrath (21) Matthew Hoggard (13) Andrew Flintoff (11) Monty Panesar (10) The 2006... One-Day International (ODI) is a form of cricket, which is played over 50 overs per side between two national cricket teams. ...

Personal life

MacGill's father Terry and grandfather Charlie both played cricket for Western Australia and Stuart is married to actress Rachel Friend.^[13] Friend with then boyfriend Craig McLachlan Rachel Friend (born January 8, 1970) is an Australian actress and journalist. ...

He has a fondness for wine and books, once reading 24 novels during a tour of Pakistan.^[14]

Known for his individuality, he was the only Australian Cricketer to declare himself unavailable to tour Zimbabwe in 2004 on moral grounds.

References

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