Craig Ervine Biography
Craig Richard Ervine, who represents Zimbabwe as the skipper in limited overs matches, was born in Zimbabwe on August 19, of the year 1985. Ervine bats using his left hand. Ervine was born in Harare and has played first-class cricket for many Zimbabwean sides in the Logan Cup as well as Test and limited-overs cricket for Zimbabwe. Craig Richard Ervine is a citizen of Ireland. Ervine participated in his 100th One Day International (ODI) game in the series opener against Sri Lanka in the month of January of the year 2022.
Domestic Career
Craig Richard Ervine quickly received a spot at the Zimbabwe Cricket Academy and quickly made his mark playing for the Midlands, Zimbabwe U-19s, and Zimbabwe A teams at home.
On December 3, of the year 2003, while playing for Midlands versus Matabeleland in the 2003 Faithwear Clothing Inter-Provincial One-Day Competition, Ervine made his List A debut. Richard Ervine made his first-class debut on March 19, of the year 2004, while representing Midlands against Mashonaland in the 2003–04 Logan Cup. Craig was chosen to play for Zimbabwe in the Under-19 Cricket World Cup in the year 2004.
Craig traveled to England to hone his skills and briefly played at clubs there like Bexhill and Lordswood. In the years 2009 and 2010, Ervine also participated in Wallace Park Club. For Midlands in Zimbabwe, Ervine has played the majority of his domestic cricket.
Ervine joined Southern Rocks in the month of February of the year 2010 for the home circuit in Zimbabwe. Ervine recorded his first-ever first-class century in his first game against the Mid-West Rhinos with a high score of 100. Since the 2011–12 season, he has been a member of the Matabeleland Tuskers.
Ervine recorded his tenth first-class cricket century in the month of December of the year 2018, during the first round of the Logan Cup for the 2018–19 season. With 328 runs in six matches, Craig had the most runs scored in the 2018–19 Stanbic Bank 20 Series event. Richard Ervine was chosen to represent the Tuskers in the 2020–21 Logan Cup in December of that year.
International Career
Craig Richard Ervine, a Zimbabwean cricketer, made his debut in the 2010 ICC World Twenty20 event and played his first ODI against India in the 2010 Zimbabwe Micromax Tri-Nation Series. Ervine scored a half-century on his debut and made his test debut against Bangladesh in 2011. Richard Ervine made his first participation in a World Cup competition in the 2011 Cricket World Cup, finishing with 231 runs overall in six games. Ervine left Zimbabwe in 2013, relocating to Ireland to make a better livelihood. Richard Ervine returned to Zimbabwe in 2014 and made himself available for national selections in 2014-15.
Ervine’s record fourth-wicket partnership of 93 runs during the 2015 Cricket World Cup against India was broken by his undefeated 130 runs against New Zealand. Ervine’s match-winning 69 runs during Zimbabwe’s 2017 tour of Sri Lanka helped tie the five-match series at 2-2. Ervine scored his second test century against Sri Lanka in 2017, a career-high score of 160. Richard Ervine was a member of the Zimbabwean team that competed in the 2018 Cricket World Cup qualifier in India. Ervine’s 1,000th run in the first Test against Sri Lanka in January 2020 marked a milestone in Test cricket.
Captaincy
After Sean Williams, Zimbabwe’s normal Test captain, took time off before the game to attend the birth of his first child, Richard Ervine commanded the Test squad in the one-off Test against Bangladesh on February 22, 2020. Despite his heroic efforts with the bat in both innings of the game in his leadership debut, Zimbabwe lost by an innings and 106 runs. Richard Ervine made a century, leading scoring for Zimbabwe in the first innings with 107.
Craig Richard Ervine was chosen to lead Zimbabwe with the white ball for the first time in August 2021. Ervine led Zimbabwe with the white ball for the first time during the short-overs series against Ireland and the T20I series against Scotland. In January 2022, Ervine was appointed captain of the Zimbabwean team once again for the three-match ODI series against Sri Lanka.
Personal life
In the 1977–1978 Castle Bowl competition, Ervine’s father Rory and uncle Neil both competed in first-class cricket for Rhodesia B. Another uncle, Gordon Den, participated in the 1960s for both Rhodesia and Eastern Province. Alexander Den, Den’s father and Ervine’s great-grandfather is known to have made one appearance for Rhodesia in 1936 against the visiting Australian national team. His grandparents, who would even offer 50 cents to anyone who took a wicket, inspired him to take up cricket. He and his brothers Sean and Ryan were born and nurtured on a farm outside of Harare.
Sean Ervine, Ervine’s brother, also played for Zimbabwe and went on to have a prosperous English county cricket career with Hampshire after leaving the nation in 2004. In Zimbabwe’s 2009–10 domestic limited overs cricket season, Ryan’s other brother Ryan participated.
After a bizarre event in which he slipped and fell on shattered glass in his family’s living room, Ervine nearly had to have a hand amputated while he was in his early teens. At home, he tripped over some dropped penlight batteries. His mother, a nurse during the war, intervened to stop her son’s heavy bleeding. The injury to his right hand needed to get a three-hour operation at that time.
Bio Data
Full name: Craig Richard Ervine
Born: 19 August 1985
Age: 37 Years
Zodiac Sign: Leo
Birth Place: Harare, Zimbabwe
Height: 6 ft 1 in (1.85 m)
Batting: Left-handed
Bowling: Right arm off-break
Role: Middle-order batter
Relations: Sean Ervine (brother)
