Tim May
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| Tim May | ||||
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| Batting style | Right-hand bat | |||
| Bowling style | Right-arm offbreak | |||
| Career statistics | ||||
| Tests | ODIs | |||
| Matches | 24 | 47 | ||
| Runs scored | 225 | 39 | ||
| Batting average | 14.06 | 9.75 | ||
| 100s/50s | -/- | -/- | ||
| Top score | 42* | 15 | ||
| Balls bowled | 6577 | 2504 | ||
| Wickets | 75 | 39 | ||
| Bowling average | 34.74 | 45.43 | ||
| 5 wickets in innings | 3 | - | ||
| 10 wickets in match | - | n/a | ||
| Best bowling | 5/9 | 3/19 | ||
| Catches/stumpings | 6/- | 3/- | ||
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Timothy Brian Alexander May (born 26 January 1962 at North Adelaide, South Australia) is a former cricketer for South Australia and Australia, who is currently a leading administrator of the game in his role as Chief Executive of the Federation of International Cricketers' Associations (FICA). May played in 24 Tests and 47 ODIs in an injury-interrupted career between 1987 and 1995.
An off-spin bowler more suited to Test matches than ODIs, May was also a handy batsman good enough to score a first-class century. His best bowling was 5/9 in 1992–93 against the West Indies in the fourth Test at the Adelaide Oval, when he hit his best Test score of 42 not out.
May's Test bowling average of nearly 35 is worse than leading spinners of the 1990s such as Saqlain Mushtaq and Shane Warne, but better than many other Australian spin bowlers of the time. For a brief period, he formed a successful partnership with Warne when they captured 55 wickets between them during the 1993 Ashes series.
Although he was not a good fielder, May was regularly selected as twelfth man for Australia, and holds the record for most appearances in this role. On one occasion during the 1992–93 World Series Cup, May was substituting for the injured Dean Jones and dropped a catch from Rameez Raja at extra cover, forcing Jones to return. Mike Atherton called May the "best off-spin bowler" that he faced, even though May did not bowl the doosra.
In 1997, May became the inaugural CEO of the Australian Cricketers' Association and was a significant influence in its establishment as an important organisation in Australian cricket. In June 2005, he was appointed as the CEO of FICA, which is based in Austin, Texas. May was the driving force behind the staging of the World Cricket Tsunami Appeal match in 2004.
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