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Full name | Dominic Piers Ostler | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born | Solihull, Warwickshire, England | 15 July 1970||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Batting | Right-handed | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bowling | Right-arm medium | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Role | Batsman | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Years | Team | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
1990–2004 | Warwickshire | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
First-class debut | 26 May 1990 Warwickshire v Worcestershire | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Last First-class | 2 August 2003 Warwickshire v India A | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
List A debut | 20 May 1990 Warwickshire v Gloucestershire | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Last List A | 27 July 2004 Warwickshire v Lancashire | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Source:CricketArchive,27 July 2015 |
Dominic Piers Ostler (born 15 July 1970) is a former cricketer who played in first-class,List A and Twenty20 cricket for Warwickshire between 1990 and 2004. [1] He also played for the England A cricket team in 1995 and 1996 in first-class and List A games. He was born in Solihull.
Ostler played for most of his career in senior cricket as a specialist right-handed middle-order batsman;he bowled occasionally at right-arm medium pace,was an outstanding fielder at slip and also very occasionally kept wicket. [1] He was a regular in the Warwickshire side pretty much from his debut to the end of 2002,apart from a period in the late 1990s when he lost confidence and form;a second downturn in form led to his retirement in 2003,though he appeared in a few List A matches the following season. He remains as of 2015 a regular player in high-quality Birmingham area club cricket. [2]
Ostler made a low-key entry into Warwickshire's first team,but in his third match in 1990 his steadiness,batting at No 8,helped his side to take a somewhat contrived victory over Derbyshire after Derbyshire has forfeited their entire second innings;he scored 42 not out to seal the win after a late collapse. [3] His highest score of this first season was only 71,but he was consistent and scored 510 runs at an average of exactly 30.00 in his eleven games. [1] The following year,when he was awarded his county cap,he played regularly and made 1284 runs at an average of 36.68;the season also contained his first first-class century,an innings of 120 not out that saved the match against Kent after Warwickshire had been forced to follow on. [4]
That 1991 season set the pattern for the next four years of Ostler's cricket career:he was a consistent if rarely flamboyant scorer and was ever-present in Warwickshire's middle order in both first-class and List A matches. He passed 1000 first-class runs in a season in 1992,1993 and 1994,and was only 17 runs short in 1995. [1] In each of these seasons,there were large-scale centuries from Ostler. In 1992,he made 192 against Surrey;the following season,the Essex away match produced a score of 174 for him;in 1994,he scored 186 against Yorkshire;and in 1995 his first double-century was a score of 208 in the home match with Surrey. [5] [6] [7] [8]
In the winter of 1995–96,Ostler was picked for the England A tour to Pakistan,where he played in three of the five first-class matches;in the game against Pakistan A,he top-scored in England A's first innings with 68,but in the other tour matches he was not successful. [9] The England A team re-assembled for the first representative match of the 1996 season to play against a team called "The Rest";England A won the game,but Ostler scored only 13 and he was not then selected for any further representative matches. [10] Ostler's cricket career then went into a severe decline across the rest of the 1990s to the point where,in 1998,he played in only six first-class matches for Warwickshire,scoring just 173 runs,of which 133 came in a single unbeaten innings against the less-than-arduous bowling of Oxford University. [1] His form in List A cricket remained better for longer,but in both 1998 and 1999 he played in only around half of the county's games. [1]
Ostler's return to form and favour came in the 2000 season,when he scored 1096 runs at a career-best average of 49.81;he was also granted a benefit in the 2000 season by Warwickshire. [1] He was heading for similar success in 2001,averaging 47.27 with the bat and having taken 22 catches in just 10 first-class matches,when his season came to an abrupt end with an elbow injury in the July fixture against Derbyshire. [1] Earlier in the 2001 season he had recorded his highest one-day cricket score with an unbeaten innings of 134 against Gloucestershire. [11] He returned for 2002 and scored 1039 first-class runs at an average of 43.29,taking 24 catches in 14 matches as well;the runs included an innings of 225 late in the season against Yorkshire off just 240 balls,which was his highest first-class score. [12] But the following season,2003,he played only a few games,losing his place in a rotational squad system and not regaining it,and he played just three List A games and one Twenty20 game in 2004 before retiring.
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