Angus Fraser

Angus Robert Charles Fraser (born 8 August 1965, Billinge Higher End, Wigan, Lancashire, England) is the current Managing Director of Cricket of Middlesex County Cricket Club, and a former English cricketer and journalist.

Fraser played in forty six Test matches and forty two One Day Internationals for England. Cricket commentator Colin Bateman commented that Fraser was "a reliable, intelligent and hard-working bowler".

Life and career

Fraser was educated at the Gayton High School in Harrow, Middlesex. Perhaps his finest hour came in the Barbados Test match of the 1993/94 West Indies tour, when Fraser took 8-75 in the first innings to help set up a famous victory, West Indies' first defeat at Bridgetown for more than half a century. His career-best first-class cricket figures, 8-53, were also taken in a Test against the same opposition, this time at Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago in 1997/98. Despite taking eight wickets in an innings, he did not win the Man of the Match award, which went to Carl Hooper from the winning West Indies side.

His ODI high score of 38 not out, scored late in the innings at number 10 and including a massive six off Steve Waugh, almost brought England back from the brink of defeat against Australia during the 1990/91 tour (Australia won by three runs). Another fine moment with the bat was in a last-wicket second-innings stand with Robert Croft to save the third...
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