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'''Craig White''', aka '''Dr Sex''', aka '''The King of Swing''', is a way awesome dude. When you talk to people about Craig White they are like "he's way awesome." One time Craig White punched a wall so hard his fist went right through into his neighbour's house and she was like "hello."
{{Infobox cricketer biography
| playername = Craig White
| image =
| country = England
| fullname = Craig White
| nickname = Chalky, Bassey
| living = true
| dayofbirth = 16
| monthofbirth = 12
| yearofbirth = 1969
| placeofbirth = [[Morley, West Yorkshire|Morley]]
| countryofbirth = [[England]]
| heightft = 6
| heightinch = 1
| batting = Right-hand
| bowling = Right-arm [[Fast bowling|fast-medium]]
| role = [[All rounder]]
| international = true
| testdebutdate = 2nd June
| testdebutyear = 1994
| testdebutagainst = New Zealand
| testcap = 567
| lasttestdate = 26 December
| lasttestyear = 2002
| lasttestagainst = Australia
| odidebutdate = 6 December
| odidebutyear = 1994
| odidebutagainst = Australia
| odicap = 129
| lastodidate = 2 March
| lastodiyear = 2003
| lastodiagainst = Australia
| odishirt = 6
| club1 = [[Yorkshire County Cricket Club|Yorkshire]]
| year1 = 1990–2007
| clubnumber1 = 13
| club2 = [[Victoria cricket team|Victoria]]
| year2 = 1990–1991
| columns = 4
| deliveries = balls
| column1 = [[Test cricket|Tests]]
| matches1 = 30
| runs1 = 1052
| bat avg1 = 24.46
| 100s/50s1 = 1/5
| top score1 = 121
| deliveries1 = 3959
| wickets1 = 59
| bowl avg1 = 37.62
| fivefor1 = 3
| tenfor1 = 0
| best bowling1 = 5/32
| catches/stumpings1 = 14/–
| column2 = [[One Day International|ODIs]]
| matches2 = 51
| runs2 = 568
| bat avg2 = 15.77
| 100s/50s2 = 0/1
| top score2 = 57*
| deliveries2 = 2364
| wickets2 = 65
| bowl avg2 = 26.55
| fivefor2 = 1
| tenfor2 = n/a
| best bowling2 = 5/21
| catches/stumpings2 = 12/–
| column3 = [[First-class cricket|FC]]
| matches3 = 275
| runs3 = 12395
| bat avg3 = 32.70
| 100s/50s3 = 21/62
| top score3 = 186
| deliveries3 = 21286
| wickets3 = 395
| bowl avg3 = 28.50
| fivefor3 = 11
| tenfor3 = 0
| best bowling3 = 8/55
| catches/stumpings3 = 167/–
| column4 = [[List A cricket|LA]]
| matches4 = 351
| runs4 = 7111
| bat avg4 = 26.43
| 100s/50s4 = 5/19
| top score4 = 148
| deliveries4 = 11581
| wickets4 = 337
| bowl avg4 = 25.10
| fivefor4 = 3
| tenfor4 = n/a
| best bowling4 = 5/19
| catches/stumpings4 = 99/–
| date = 13 August
| year = 2007
| source = http://cricketarchive.com/Yorkshire/Players/2/2158/2158.html cricketarchive.com
}}
'''Craig White''' (born [[December 16]], [[1969]] in [[Morley, West Yorkshire]]) is a [[cricket]]er.

White was brought up in [[Australia]], but later moved back to [[England]], his country of birth, where he became [[Yorkshire County Cricket Club|Yorkshire's]] first-ever overseas signing. At the time Yorkshire still operated a policy of only employing cricketers born in Yorkshire, even though English counties could play up to two overseas players if they wished. Having played in Australia, White was not initially qualified to play for England when he returned. This led to Yorkshire listing him as an overseas player.

At the start of his career, White was an [[all-rounder]] who [[batting (cricket)|batted]] right-handed and [[bowling (cricket)|bowled]] right-arm [[off spin]]. In his 20s, he changed his style to become a [[fast bowling|fast bowler]] after doubts were raised about the purity of his spin-bowling action.

When [[Raymond Illingworth]] became the new Chairman of Selectors for the [[English cricket team]] in 1994, he wanted the England team to contain an all-rounder who could bat at number 6 and bowl first-change. He selected his fellow Yorkshireman White for this role, much to the surprise of many media pundits and fans. By this time, White had been playing in England long enough to qualify for the national team, and he made his Test début against [[New Zealand cricket team|New Zealand]]. His performances were inconsistent and he was dropped after just eight matches.

In [[2000 in cricket|2000]], he suffered a mystery blackout, waking up to find himself in a gutter in [[Scarborough, North Yorkshire|Scarborough]]. The incident suddenly revitalised him as a cricketer, and his county performances earned him a recall to the England team for the series against the [[West Indian cricket team|West Indies]]. He had a successful series, contributing useful runs at numbers seven and eight, and becoming an important member of the pace-bowling attack. His bowling had improved to such an extent that he was capable of using [[reverse-swing]] and reaching speeds of 90mph off a short run-up.

White played well on subsequent tours to the [[Indian subcontinent|subcontinent]], with his most notable achievements being 93 against [[Pakistani cricket team|Pakistan]] at [[Gaddafi Stadium|Lahore]] in 2000 and 121 against [[Indian cricket team|India]] at [[Sardar Patel Stadium|Ahmedabad]] in 2001. The latter performance was his one and only Test century. His thirtieth and final Test Match was against Australia in the Fourth Test of the [[English cricket team in Australia in 2002-03|2002-03 Ashes series]]. An injury to his side prevented him from playing in the Fifth Test, but he later recovered to play in the [[2003 Cricket World Cup]], his last appearance for the national team.

White's Test career was distinguished by inconsistency: with the ball, he took just fourteen wickets in his first ten Tests, followed by two consecutive five-wicket draws, and then no more than a two-for in his next fourteen Tests, before finally bowing out with a dozen in the three Ashes matches against the Australians; with the bat, meanwhile, he failed on two occasions to reach double figures more than once over the course of nine innings, but nevertheless gave solid accounts of himself on the Asian subcontinent. "By the end," wrote [[satirist]] [[Andy Zaltzman]], "it was hard to work out if he had overachieved or underachieved with both bat and ball. Or done exactly as well as he should."<ref>Zaltzman 2009.</ref>

After the World Cup, bowling-related injuries began to take their toll on White, and he re-invented himself as a specialist batsman for Yorkshire. Always an aggressive shot-maker, keen to hook and drive the quicks, and hit the spinners into the deep, he added greater depth and consistency to his game. In [[2004 English cricket season|2004]], White was appointed [[captain (cricket)|captain]] of Yorkshire, and in [[2005 English cricket season|2005]] led them to promotion from Division Two of the [[County Championship]]. However, he resigned as captain at the end of the [[2006 English cricket season|2006 season]], having helped them to avoid relegation.

In 265 [[first-class cricket|first-class]] matches, up to the end of 2006, White had scored 11,949 runs at 32.91 with a best of 186, while his 341 list-A one-day games have brought him 8,933 runs at 26.56 with a best of 148. He has taken 395 first-class wickets at a healthy average of 28.47, with a best of eight for 55, and another 337 scalps in the one day game at an excellent 25.02, with a best of five for nineteen.

White's sister Andrea is married to the former Australian international cricketer [[Darren Lehmann]], who played together with White at Yorkshire for a number of years.

White has revealed on [[Sky Sports]]'s [[Twenty20]] coverage that his favourite music is that of [[Eric Clapton]], food pie, film ''[[Top Gun (film)|Top Gun]]'' and the person whom he would most like to meet [[Valentino Rossi]].

== External links ==
*{{Cricinfo|ref=england/content/player/22403.html}}

== References ==
* [[Andy Zaltzman|Zaltzman, Andy]]. "[http://blogs.cricinfo.com/andyzaltzman/archives/2009/04/unpredictable_xi_part_2.php Unpredictable XI - part 2]." ''[[Cricinfo]]'', [[8 April]] [[2009 in literature|2009]].

== Notes ==
{{Reflist}}

{{England Squad 1996 Cricket World Cup}}
{{England Squad 2003 Cricket World Cup}}
{{Yorkshire squad}}

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[[Another Craig White, is the Craig White I work with. as far as I know he really sucks at cricket. Craig is a beardy hippy that really should grow up]]

Revision as of 14:23, 2 May 2009

Craig White, aka Dr Sex, aka The King of Swing, is a way awesome dude. When you talk to people about Craig White they are like "he's way awesome." One time Craig White punched a wall so hard his fist went right through into his neighbour's house and she was like "hello."

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