Personal information | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Full name | Michael Gerald Howat | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born | Tavistock, Devon, England | 2 March 1958|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Batting | Right-handed | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bowling | Right-arm medium-fast | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Relations | Gerald Howat (father) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Domestic team information | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Years | Team | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
1977–1980 | Cambridge University | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Career statistics | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Source:Cricinfo,4 September 2019 |
Michael Gerald Howat (born Michael Gerald Henderson-Howat,born 2 March 1958) is an English former cricketer.
Howat is the son of the cricketer and schoolmaster Gerald Howat. He was born in March 1958 at Tavistock. He was educated at Abingdon School from 1968 until 1975. [1]
Howat started playing cricket for the under-13 team before being selected for the second XI in 1971 and the first XI by 1974. He won the Morris Cup for the best all-rounder and broke the School record by claiming 62 wickets in one season. He was also a competent field hockey player. [2] He later studied at Magdalene College,Cambridge. [3]
While studying at Cambridge, [4] he made his debut in first-class cricket for Cambridge University against Leicestershire at Fenner's in 1977. He played first-class cricket for Cambridge until 1980,making 26 appearances. [5] In his 26 matches,he took 26 wickets with his right-arm medium-fast bowling at a high average of 60.00,with best figures of 3 for 39. [6] With the bat,he scored 194 runs at a batting average of 10.21,with a high score of 32. [7] [8] In addition to playing first-class cricket while at Cambridge,he also made two List A one-day appearances for the Combined Universities cricket team,making a single appearance apiece in the 1978 and 1980 Benson &Hedges Cup. [9]
Sir Leonard Hutton was an English cricketer. He played as an opening batsman for Yorkshire County Cricket Club from 1934 to 1955 and for England in 79 Test matches between 1937 and 1955. Wisden Cricketers' Almanack described him as "one of the greatest batsmen in the history of cricket". He set a record in 1938 for the highest individual innings in a Test match in only his sixth Test appearance,scoring 364 runs against Australia,a milestone that stood for nearly 20 years. Following the Second World War,he was the mainstay of England's batting. In 1952,he became the first professional cricketer of the 20th century to captain England in Tests;under his captaincy England won the Ashes the following year for the first time in 19 years.
Walter Reginald Hammond was an English first-class cricketer who played for Gloucestershire in a career that lasted from 1920 to 1951. Beginning as a professional,he later became an amateur and was appointed captain of England. Primarily a middle-order batsman,Wisden Cricketers' Almanack described him in his obituary as one of the four best batsmen in the history of cricket. He was considered to be the best English batsman of the 1930s by commentators and those with whom he played;they also said that he was one of the best slip fielders ever. Hammond was an effective fast-medium pace bowler and contemporaries believed that if he had been less reluctant to bowl,he could have achieved even more with the ball than he did.
Learie Nicholas Constantine,Baron Constantine was a Trinidadian cricketer,lawyer and politician who served as Trinidad and Tobago's High Commissioner to the United Kingdom and became the UK's first black peer. He played 18 Test matches for the West Indies before the Second World War and took the team's first wicket in Test cricket. An advocate against racial discrimination,in later life he was influential in the passing of the 1965 Race Relations Act in Britain. He was knighted in 1962 and made a life peer in 1969.
Arthur James Ledger Hill was an English cricketer. He scored the first-ever first-class century in India.
Michael John Hill is an English former first-class cricketer.
James Daniel 'Dan' Piachaud is a former Sri Lankan first-class cricketer. Piachaud studied in England at the University of Oxford,where he made 52 appearances in first-class cricket —the joint-highest amount —and took nearly 150 wickets as an off break bowler. He also played county cricket for Hampshire and first-class cricket for Ceylon.
Dennis Oliver Baldry is an English former first-class cricketer who played as an all-rounder for both Middlesex and Hampshire. Debuting in first-class cricket for Middlesex in 1953,he played irregularly for the county until 1958. He moved to Hampshire in 1959,and was a member of their 1961 County Championship winning team. He played for Hampshire in first-class cricket until 1962,and played in their inaugural List A one-day match in the 1963 Gillette Cup. A right-handed batsman and right-arm off break bowler,he score over 4,600 runs in 139 first-class matches,and took 83 wickets.
Victor Joseph Ransom was an English first-class cricketer.
Sir Henry John Mordaunt,12th Baronet was an English first-class cricketer and educator. Mordaunt played first-class cricket from 1885 to 1896,largely at varsity level for Cambridge University Cricket Club. He was later involved in education,spending twenty years as the Chief Clerk of the London City Council Education Committee.
Alexander Campbell Shirreff,known as Alan Shirreff,was an English pilot who served in the Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve during the Second World War,and after the war he continued his military service with the Royal Air Force. Shirreff was also an amateur cricketer who played first-class cricket either side of the war,mostly for the Combined Services cricket team and Kent. He played as an all-rounder in nearly 120 matches,taking over 300 wickets with his medium pace deliveries.
Michael Youll is a former English cricketer,a left-handed batsman who bowled left-arm unorthodox spin. He was born in Newcastle upon Tyne,Northumberland.
Victor S. Pascall was a Trinidadian cricketer who represented the West Indies in the days before they achieved Test status. His primary role was as a left-arm spinner,but was regarded as a reasonable batsman. Pascall was related to the Constantine family;he was the maternal uncle of Elias and Learie Constantine and was a possible coaching influence on the latter. At the time he played,critics considered him the best left-arm spinner in the West Indies.
Michael Denzil Livock was an English first-class cricketer.
Richard Henry Gillespie was an English first-class cricketer.
Francisco Alfred 'Frank' Bryans was an Argentine first-class cricketer and tennis player.
Christopher Michael Pitcher is an English former first-class cricketer.
Alexander David Hugh Grimes is an English former cricketer.
Edward John Wycliffe Jackson is an English former cricketer.
Stuart James Gardiner is a South African former cricketer.
Adam Nicholas Janisch is an English former first-class cricketer.