Derek Pringle

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Derek Pringle

England
Personal information
Batting style Right-handed batsman (RHB)
Bowling style Right Arm Medium
Career statistics
Tests ODIs
Matches 30 44
Runs scored 695 425
Batting average 15.10 23.61
100s/50s 0/1 0/0
Top score 63 49*
Overs 881.1 396.3
Wickets 70 44
Bowling average 35.97 38.11
5 wickets in innings 3 0
10 wickets in match 0 n/a
Best bowling 7/120 4/42
Catches/stumpings 10/0 11/0

As of 25 August 2005
Source: [1]

Derek Raymond Pringle (born Nairobi, Kenya 18 September 1958) is an English cricket journalist and a retired cricketer.

He was educated at Felsted School and Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge. He played for Essex between 1978 and 1993. He was a member of the successful sides of the 1980s and early 1990s alongside cricketers such as Graham Gooch, Mark Waugh, Nasser Hussain, John Lever and Neil Foster. Pringle as an undergraduate played for Cambridge University and was called up for England, whilst he was captain in 1982. Pringle went on to play 30 Test matches until 1992, scoring 695 runs and taking 70 wickets. He also played in 44 One Day Internationals between 1982 and 1993. He appeared in two World Cups including England's losing 1992 final team.

A big man of 6'5" (1m 94), Pringle had eclectic tastes in fashion and music in comparison to his team mates and eventually became a cult figure late in his career. His always popular warm-up routine before coming on to bowl, involved him lying on his back and apparently wrestling with an invisible octopus. He once damaged his back when his chair collapsed, forcing him to withdraw from a Test Match, although the story usually (but wrongly) told is that he sustained the injury whilst writing a letter.1

After his playing days he became a cricket correspondent firstly with The Independent and then The Daily Telegraph.

Derek's father Donald Pringle played two matches for East Africa in the 1975 World Cup. Derek also appeared as an extra in the film Chariots of Fire.[1]


Career record First-class List A
Matches 295 317
Runs scored 9,243 4,873
Batting average 28.26 25.92
100s/50s 10/48 0/29
Top score 128 81*
Balls bowled 45139 15410
Wickets 761 383
Bowling average 26.58 27.14
5 wickets in innings 25 5
10 wickets in match 3 n/a
Best Bowling 7/18 5/12
Catches/Stumpings 153/0 87/0
As of 26 August 2005
Source: [2]
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  1. ^ Cast of 'Chariots of Fire' in IMDB
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