Adrian Dimitri Mascarenhas (born 30 October 1977) is an English former international cricketer who played One Day International (ODI) and Twenty20 International (T20I) cricket for England,alongside an extensive domestic career in England with Hampshire. From a Bharatha Sri Lankan family,Mascarenhas was born in England in Chiswick. His family emigrated to Australia when he was a child,where he was educated at Trinity College,Perth. While playing club cricket,he came to the attention of English cricketer Paul Terry,who arranged for him to play cricket in England. After playing one match in minor counties cricket for Dorset,Mascarenhas made his senior debut for Hampshire in 1996,aged 18;he would play for Hampshire until 2013,making 195 first-class,237 one-day and 74 Twenty20 (T20) appearances for the county. He captained them between 2008 and 2013,winning several one-day and T20 titles. It was in one-day and T20 cricket that he excelled as an attacking all-rounder. In 2008,he became the first English cricketer to play in the T20 Indian Premier League,leading him to be considered a "T20 revolutionary" due to his early foray into franchise cricket;he would play domestic T20 cricket for eight teams in five countries.
Having been overlooked in limited overs cricket by England for several years,Mascarenhas made both his ODI and T20I debuts in 2007 against the West Indies. He held the record for the most runs in an over in an ODI for England,with 30,scored off Yuvraj Singh against India in 2007. He played for England until 2009,participating in both the 2007 and 2009 World Twenty20 tournaments. Having failed to recover from injury,he retired from playing following the 2013 English season. Mascarenhas moved into coaching after his retirement. He coached Otago in 2014,and in 2015 he was appointed New Zealand's bowling coach. After leaving that role in 2016,he was assistant coach of Essex in 2018 and Middlesex's T20 bowling coach in 2019 and 2020.
Early life
Dimitri Adrian Mascarenhas was born in Chiswick to Malik Mascarenhas and his wife,Pauline (née de Croos),both from the Bharatha community of Negombo in Sri Lanka.[2] His father played cricket in his youth for St. Mary's College in Negombo.[2] They emigrated to England in the mid-1970s.[3] When he was a child,his parents emigrated again,to Melbourne in Australia.[3] He initially grew up there,playing cricket at under-12 level for Ringwood,before the family relocated to Perth.[3] His father ran a chain of successful fast-food restaurants in Perth,[4] affording him the opportunity to be privately educated at Trinity College.[4] At Trinity,Simon Katich,who was two years his senior,attempted unsuccessfully to get Mascarenhas in the college cricket team at the age of 14,having been impressed by him.[4] In Perth,he played club cricket for Melville.[2] He captainedWestern Australia at both under 17 and 19 levels,with Mascarenhas fostering ambitions to play for Australia.[5] During the 1995–96 season,the HampshirebatsmanPaul Terry joined Melville as their overseas player. He was instrumental in finding Mascarenhas and his Melville teammate,Chris Rogers,club opportunties in England in 1996.[6]
Mascarenhas was overlooked for the first County Championship match of the 1998 season,but thereafter played in all of Hampshire's matches in both first-class and one-day cricket.[5] In 17 first-class matches,he took 30 wickets at an average of 33.33,[16] and with the bat scored 645 runs at an average of 28.04,making six half-centuries.[17] His 63 runs against Leicestershire in May helped Hampshire avoid an innings defeat,having earlier shared in a partnership of 114 runs with Adrian Aymes for the fifth wicket in their first innings.[18] He made 26 appearances in one-day cricket,taking 22 wickets at an average of 19.86;[19] he also scored 560 runs at an average of exactly 28,making five half-centuries.[20] In the semi-final of the NatWest Trophy against Lancashire he demonstrated his all-round abilities,with Mascarenhas being adjudged man-of-the-match for his half-century (73 runs) and figures of 3 for 28;despite his efforts,Hampshire lost the match.[5] He was awarded his county cap in August,[21] and was voted Hampshire's Player of the Year in November.[22]
Mascarenhas' back problems arose again midway through the 1999 season,keeping him out of the team for parts of June and August.[23][24] Across the season he made 14 first-class appearances,scoring 465 runs at an average of 28.83;[17] he struggled with his bowling,taking 17 wickets at a high average of 51.05.[16] In one-day cricket,he scored 319 runs at an average of 21.26 from 18 appearances,making three half-centuries.[20] In contrast to his first-class form,Mascarenhas took 21 wickets in one-day cricket,averaging 26.42 runs per wicket.[19]
First century
Mascarenhas made his first century in first-class cricket in the 2000 County Championship,making 100 runs from 171 balls against Derbyshire,having added 187 runs for the sixth wicket with Derek Kenway.[25] In sixteen first-class matches,he scored 473 runs at an average of 20.56,[17] alongside 28 wickets at an average of 28.42.[16] In one-day cricket,his figures of 4 for 25 against Middlesex guided Hampshire to the semi-final of the NatWest Trophy.[26] He took 38 wickets at an average of 21.18 from 24 one-day matches;[19] he ended the season as Hampshire's second-highest one-day wicket-taker,one behind Shane Warne.[27] In January 2001,he underwent surgery for an ankle injury.[28] In the 2001 season,Hampshire moved from the County Ground in Southampton to their new home at the Rose Bowl in West End.[29] Mascarenhas scored the first century there with 104 runs against Worcestershire in the 2001 County Championship.[5] He scored 447 runs at an average of 24.83 from 15 first-class appearances in 2001.[17] He claimed 6 for 60 against Derbyshire in July,securing a one-wicket victory for Hampshire;[30] overall,he took 40 first-class wickets at an average of 25.37,with two five-wicket hauls.[16] In 20 one-day matches,he claimed 24 wickets at an average of 25.66,[16] alongside scoring 236 runs with one fifty.[19] He had bowled with a heel spur,that was operated on after the season. He recuperated in Perth in the winter and played Grade Cricket.[31]
Mascarenhas made sixteen first-class appearances in 2002.[12] In these,he took 37 wickets at an average of 30.83,taking one five-wicket haul against Yorkshire in the County Championship in May.[17] He also scored 574 runs at an average of 23.91,[17] with a top-score of 94 runs against Surrey.[32] He played in 20 one-day matches,taking 32 wickets at an average of 19.76;[20] he took his first one-day five-wicket haul in a 46 runs victory against Gloucestershire in the Norwich Union League,having earlier scored an unbeaten 38 runs from 21 balls.[33] He ended the season as Hampshire's leading one-day wicket-taker.[34] Mascarenhas made 17 first-class appearances in the 2003 season[12] scoring 600 runs at an average of exactly 25.[17] He made an unbeaten century against Glamorgan in the County Championship in April.[35] Later in the season,he made 92 runs against Durham,[36] forming a partnership of 123 runs for the eighth wicket with Shaun Udal.[37] He took 40 first-class wickets at an average of 32.17,[16] with best figures of 6 for 55 against Northamptonshire,a bowling performance described as "accurate" by cricket writer Vic Isaacs.[38] Nationally,he was the joint-highest one-day wicket-taker with Graham Napier (39 wickets).[39] In June,he featured in Hampshire's first-ever Twenty20 (T20) match,played against Sussex at Southampton in the Twenty20 Cup,with Mascarenhas playing five matches in its inaugural edition.[40]
Mascarenhas made 16 first-class appearances in 2004,scoring 477 runs at an average of 21.68;[17] his only century,a score of 104 runs,came against Durham in the County Championship.[41] He claimed 50 first-class wickets in a season for the first time,[41] with 56 at an average of 18.67;[16] he took five or more wickets in an innings on four occasions,with career best figures of 6 for 25 against Derbyshire.[42] He ended the season as Hampshire's leading first-class wicket-taker.[43] In one-day cricket,he took 12 wickets from 15 appearances,[19] but had more impact batting;he scored 413 runs at an average of 37.54,with four half-centuries.[20] In 2004,he was the first player to record a hat-trick in T20 cricket,claiming the wickets of Mark Davis,Mushtaq Ahmed and Jason Lewry of Sussex;his 5 for 14 from 3.5 overs included two maidens.[44] Mascarenhas played for England in the Hong Kong Sixes following the 2004 season,helping to retain their title.[45] He achieved his highest first-class batting average in the 2005 season,averaging of 49.09 with an aggregrate of 540 runs from 11 matches;[17] he made two centuries against Warwickshire (102 not out) and Nottinghamshire (103 not out). In the former,he shared a seventh wicket partnership of 324 runs with Shane Watson,[46] and in the latter he helped Hampshire to an innings and 188 runs victory,securing a second placed finish in the County Championship.[47] He took 34 first-class wickets at an average of 23.55,with two five-wicket hauls.[16] His Championship appearances were limited by a back injury sustained in a Championship match in May,keeping him out throughout June.[48] He played for Hampshire in their Cheltenham &Gloucester Trophy winning team that defeated Warwickshire in the final at Lord's in September.[5] In 14 one-day matches,he scored 254 runs and took 14 wickets.[17][16]
Mascarenhas played 16 first-class matches in 2006,scoring 474 runs at an average of 19.75;[17] his only century came against Kent,a score of 131 runs,the highest of his career.[49] He also took 43 wickets at an average of 24.97.[16] Against Warwickshire in a County Championship match in August,he was reprimanded by the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) after breaching their disciplinary code in relation to "abuse of the ground,equipment or fixtures and fittings".[50] He made 16 one-day appearances,averaging 30.54 with 336 runs scored,[20] and took 11 wickets.[19] In eight Twenty20 Cup appearances,he scored 127 runs with a highest score of 42 not out,[51] and took 9 wickets,with a match-winning performance of 4 for 23 against Sussex.[52] Warne,Hampshire's captain,publicly highlighted Mascarenhas' abilities and called for him to be rewarded with selection for the EnglandOne Day International (ODI) team. On 13 September 2006 he wrote in The Times:"It amazes me that England have never given him a chance in the one-day side. He is the best finisher with the bat in all situations in the country and his bowling is clever and accurate".[53] Following the season,it was announced that Mascarenhas would receive a benefit year in 2007,[54] raising £8,000.[55]
Mascarenhas scored 489 runs at an average of 34.92 from ten appearances in the 2007 County Championship,[17] and took 15 wickets at an average of 32.06.[16] In one-day cricket,he played an important role in the semi-final 2007 Friends Provident Trophy in June,forming a partnership of 54 runs with Nic Pothas for the seventh wicket to take Hampshire to victory against Warwickshire.[56] Following the semi-final,he was selected in England's squad for their One Day International (ODI) and Twenty20 International (T20I) series against the West Indies.[57] Mascarenhas credited Warne's influence for his call-up.[58] He made his ODI debut against the West Indies at Lord's on 1 July 2007,playing all three ODIs in the series,[59] and in the two-match T20I series that followed.[60] He later played in the ODI series against India in August–September,playing in four of the seven ODIs.[59] In the 6th ODI at The Oval,he hit consecutive sixes off the final five balls bowled by Yuvraj Singh.[61][62] His 3 for 23 off 10 overs in the 7th ODI helped England to a 4–3 series victory;[63] the cricket writer Martin Williamson described his bowling as "impossible to get away".[63] On the same day,he was selected to replace the injured Ryan Sidebottom in England's squad for the 2007 World Twenty20.[64] He played all five of England's matches in the tournament,[60] taking 3 for 18 in a group stage victory over Zimbabwe.[65] He was appointed Hampshire's T20 captain in 2007,[57] but his international selection limited him to two appearances.[40]
In January 2008,Mascarenhas was selected in England's ODI and T20I squads for their winter tour of New Zealand.[66] He played in both T20I matches that opened the series,[60] with his all-round performance in the first of 31 runs from 14 balls,including four consecutive sixes from Jeetan Patel's bowling,[67] and 2 for 19 from 4 overs contributing to England's victory by 32 runs and earning him man-of-the-match.[68] He did not feature in the first two ODIs,but played in the final three,[59] going wicketless and scoring 29 runs.[69][70]
Twenty20 revolutionary
Following Warne's retirement at the end of the 2007 season,Mascarenhas was appointed Hampshire captain for 2008.[71] Early in the season,he signed for the Rajasthan Royals in the newly formed Indian Premier League (IPL),a move that would see him considered a "T20 revolutionary".[72] Following an ECB decision to not allow centrally-contracted England players to play in the tournament,[73] Mascarenhas was the only English representative in the tournament,playing once.[74][75] As a result of his IPL commitment,he missed several matches for Hampshire.[73] After leaving the IPL,he made fifteen first-class appearances for Hampshire,captaining them to third place in the County Championship.[71] His 673 runs was the highest aggregate of his first-class career,[71] also taking 41 wickets at an average of 23.82.[16] In one-day cricket,he led Hampshire to the runners-up position in the Pro40;[71] he achieved his highest one-day season batting average (46.16),having scored 277 runs from 13 matches.[20] He also took 15 one-day wickets.[19] When New Zealandtoured England in the summer of 2008,he played one ODI and T20I in the series.[59][60]
Following the 2008 season,he captained England in their Hong Kong Sixes winning campaign,[76] before playing limited-overs cricket in New Zealand for Otago.[77] He made ten appearances in the 2008–09 State Shield,scoring an unbeaten 75 against Auckland that saw him hit five consecutive sixes from Daryl Tuffey's bowling.[78] He made seven appearances in Otago's State Twenty20 winning campaign,and played for Otago in the 2009 Champions League Twenty20.[40] Mascarenhas was selected in England's squad for their winter tour of the West Indies. He played all five ODI matches in England's 3–2 series victory,[59] scoring 65 runs and taking 5 wickets at an average of 30.40,[79][80] and played in the only T20I at Port of Spain.[60] He was included in England's fifteen-man squad for the 2009 World Twenty20,[81] playing three matches in the tournament.[60] Later in the 2009 season,following an injury to Luke Wright,he played in England's last two ODIs against Australia.[82] He had missed the start of the season due to his IPL commitments with the Rajasthan Royals,with Pothas deputising as captain.[71] Returning to Hampshire,he made ten appearances in the County Championship,[12] making his final first-class century (108 runs) against Lancashire.[83] He led Hampshire to the final of the Friends Provident Trophy at Lord's,where they defeated Sussex by six wickets.[71] He captained Hampshire to the quarter-final of the Twenty20 Cup,playing seven matches;[40] he scored 153 runs in the competition,the highest aggregate of his career.[84]
Mascarenhas played for the Rajasthan Royals in the 2010 IPL,but injured his Achilles in his second match against Delhi Daredevils,forcing him to return home from the tournament;[85] this caused him to miss the beginning of the English season and ruled him out of the 2010 World Twenty20,having been named in the initial 30-man squad.[86] He returned against Kent in the Friends Provident t20 in June,bowling three overs before a recurrence of his injury forced him from the field.[87] He was ruled out of playing for the remainder of the season,with Dominic Cork and Pothas deputising in the captaincy.[71] In September 2010,Mascarenhas was sanctioned by the ECB and Hampshire after he posted an expletive laden Tweet about England chairman of selectors Geoff Miller,claiming to have been ignored by Miller at a match and expressing his frustration that his in-form teammate James Adams had not been considered for selection.[88][72] He was subsequently banned for 14 days at the start of the 2011 season and was fined £1,000 by Hampshire and £500 by the ECB.[89] Mascarenhas issued an apology to Miller,stating that the tweet did not reflect his views about him.[90]
Mascarenhas was bought by the Kings XI Punjab franchise during the IPL auction in January 2011,but was replaced by David Miller after struggling to recover from the Achilles injury sustained in 2010.[91] He returned to action in the Clydesdale Bank 40 in May 2011.[92] He made eight appearances in the County Championship,[12] notably taking the last five-wicket haul of his first-class career (6 for 62) against Durham.[93] He played both one-day and T20 cricket for Hampshire in 2011,taking 21 wickets at an average of 16.23 in the Twenty20 Cup.[94] For the majority of the season,he nursed a shoulder injury.[95] Following the season,he played for Otago in the 2011–12 HRV Cup,making eight appearances.[40] He opening the batting in some matches,[96] and across his eight matches he scored 124 runs.[97] However,he had less success with the ball,taking just three wickets.[98] He again missed the start of the English season in 2012 by playing in the IPL for Kings XI Punjab,making four appearances;[40] against Pune Warriors India,he took 5 for 25 to help King's XI Punjab to a seven wickets win.[99] During the 2012 English season,Mascarenhas captained Hampshire to the Twenty20 Cup title,[71] playing eleven matches in the competition.[40] During the course of the competition,he took 15 wickets at an average of 16.46.[94] He had nursed torn tendons in his shoulder during the latter part of Hampshire's T20 campaign.[100] He made just five first-class and six one-day appearances in 2012,[12][11] with the captaincy in the County Championship and one-day cricket passing to James Adams.[101]
In the 2013 English season,Mascarenhas made one first-class appearance against Gloucestershire in the County Championship,[12] but was a regular in Hampshire's one-day and T20 teams.[71] He made eleven one-day appearances,taking 13 wickets at an average of 24.61;[20] he notably claimed his second one-day five-wicket haul with 5 for 42 in a defeat to Lancashire.[106] He captained Hampshire to their second successive finals day in the Twenty20 Cup,[107] losing to Surrey in the semi-final.[108] During the course of the competition,he made eleven appearances taking 12 wickets.[94] In July,Mascarenhas had announced his intention to retire from county cricket at the end of the season,having struggled with injuries for several years.[105][109] Despite retiring from county cricket,he intended to continue playing in global T20 competitions.[105] In September,he signed for the Hobart Hurricanes in a dual-player and assistant coach role,joining as a "local" player courtesy of his Australian passport.[110][111] His participation in the 2013–14 Big Bash League was put in doubt in December,when he broke his jaw batting in a practice match;[111] recovering,he made four appearances in the competition,including their defeat to the Perth Scorchers in the final at the WACA Ground.[112]
Playing style and statistics
An all-rounder,Mascarenhas began his career primarily as a bowler who could also bat,but as his career progressed his batting improved.[71] He was a right-handed hard-hitting batsman,[113] with Warne comparing his ability to strike the ball to Australian all-rounder Ian Harvey.[114] He was useful at the end of an innings in one-day and T20 matches,being able to score quickly to accelerate the total.[4] He was also able to run quickly between the wickets,which assisted with accelerating an innings.[4] A right-arm medium-fast bowler,The Times remarked how Mascarenhas possessed the ability to use "smart and well-disguised alterations in his line and length",[115] with his teammate Shaun Udal describing his bowling as "accurate";[4] he was one of the most economical bowlers in county cricket.[14] Mascarenhas credited playing alongside Warne with improving his bowling,making him think more about how he was going to dismiss a batsman and not just tie up an end.[5] He was not particularly fast,delivering the ball at around 75 miles per hour (121km/h),[116] relying on swing to dismiss batsmen.[117] The Daily Echo remarked that he "excelled" as a "fleet-footed fielder with a wonderful throw",[54] and was described as an "athletic" fielder by cricket journalist Andrew Miller.[114]
Mascarenhas made 20 ODI appearances.[59] In these,he scored 245 runs at an average of 22.27,with one fifty.[118] His 30 runs in an over against India was an ODI record for England,remaining so until surpassed by Liam Livingstone's 32 runs against the Netherlands in 2022.[119] He took 13 ODI wickets at an average of 48.76.[120] In T20I cricket,he made 14 appearances. He scored 123 runs at an average of 15.37 and took 12 wickets at an average of 25.75.[121][122] Commenting on his bowling at international level in an interview for The Guardian in 2015,Mascarenhas believed that England's one-day captain Paul Collingwood did not bowl him at the correct moment in matches.[123] In first-class cricket,Mascarenhas made 195 appearances for Hampshire.[12] He scored 6,495 runs at an average of 25.07,making eight centuries and 23 half-centuries.[124] With the ball,he took 450 wickets at an average of 28.22,taking five or more wickets in an innings on 17 occasions.[125] In the field,he held 76 catches.[124] He scored 3,984 runs at an average of 24.59 in 237 one-day appearances for Hampshire,making 24 half-centuries with a highest score of 79.[126] With the ball,he took 285 wickets at an average of 25.22.[127] Playing for nine teams in T20 cricket (inclusive of T20Is),[128] Mascarenhas made 130 appearances. In these,he scored 1,356 runs at an average of 19.09 and had a strike rate of 127.32. He took 152 wickets in the format,averaging 20.61.[1] He was voted Hampshire's best-ever T20 player by their supporters in May 2022,having taken 94 T20 wickets for the county.[129]
Coaching
Mascarenhas holds an ECB level-three coaching qualification.[130][117] After retiring,he signed a two-year contract in June 2014 to become Otago's head coach.[130] In June 2015,Mascarenhas became New Zealand's full-time bowling coach.[131] He resigned from the role in February 2016,citing the need to spend more time with his family in Australia.[132] In July 2016,he was appointed coach of the Australia Under-16 cricket team.[133] In February 2018,Mascarenhas joined Essex as their assistant head coach,[134] but left ten months later after choosing not to renew his contract for a second season.[135] Ahead of the 2019 T20 Blast,he was appointed specialist head bowling coach at Middlesex,[136] and prior to the 2020 T20 Blast he signed a two-year contract to continue in the role.[137]
Personal life
Mascarenhas married Nadine Taylor in Melbourne in February 2011,with Shane Warne and his partner,Liz Hurley,in attendance.[138] Mascarenhas and Taylor have two sons,born in 2012 and 2014.[117] Mascarenhas had a close friendship with Warne. Following Warne's death in March 2022,he was one of the guest speakers at Warne's state memorial service at the Melbourne Cricket Ground.[139] Mascarenhas is a keen golfer,claiming to have a handicap of 6 in a 2009 interview with The Times.[140]
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