Craig Neil Evans is a former Zimbabwean cricketer and rugby union footballer born on 29 November 1969 in Salisbury-now Harare. His batting style is right-handed and his bowling style is the right-arm medium pacer. He is known as the most Frustrating cricketers of a Zimbabwean cricket team.
Batting And Fielding Averages Of Craig Evans
| Mat | Inns | NO | Runs | HS | Ave | BF | SR | 100 | 50 | 4s | 6s | Ct | |
| Tests | 3 | 6 | 0 | 52 | 22 | 8.66 | 161 | 32.29 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 0 | 1 |
| ODIs | 53 | 47 | 5 | 764 | 96* | 18.19 | 1006 | 75.94 | 0 | 2 | 65 | 16 | 12 |
| First-class | 55 | 93 | 6 | 3025 | 228* | 34.77 | 8 | 12 | 40 | ||||
| List A | 104 | 93 | 12 | 1655 | 96* | 20.43 | 0 | 7 | 25 |
Bowling Averages
| Mat | Inns | Balls | Runs | Wkts | BBI | BBM | Ave | Econ | SR | 4w | 5w | 10 | |
| Tests | 3 | 2 | 54 | 35 | 0 | – | – | – | 3.88 | – | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| ODIs | 53 | 34 | 964 | 848 | 21 | 3/11 | 3/11 | 40.38 | 5.27 | 45.9 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| First-class | 55 | 2626 | 1228 | 38 | 6/37 | 32.31 | 2.8 | 69.1 | 1 | 0 | |||
| List A | 104 | 1782 | 1530 | 40 | 4/50 | 4/50 | 38.25 | 5.15 | 44.5 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
Craig, like so many of the country’s other top cricketers, attended Ruzawi School and Falcon College. At Falcon College, he usually batted at Number 3 or 4 and opened the bowling, and was selected for the first team at the age of 15. They went on a tour to Australia, which was Craig’s first experience of top-level cricket outside the local scene. Throughout his school years, he and Glen Bruk-Jackson played together and shared many excellent batting partnerships; there was a degree of rivalry between them, but Craig also felt Glen be an encouragement to him, one who helped to give him confidence.
International Carrier
In Test Cricket, his debut match was Vs Sri Lanka at Colombo on 11 September 1996 and his last was Vs Australia at Perth on 9 October 2003. His One Day International debut was Vs India at Harare on 25 October 1992 and he played his last ODI Vs Pakistan on 1 December 2002.
In Test cricket, Craig scored 52 runs in 3 matches with the average of 8.66 and strike rate was 32.29 and in ODI cricket he scored 764 runs in 53 matches with the average of 18.19 and strike rate was 75.94. His best score in Test cricket was 22 and 96* in ODI format.
He was rather puzzled by his own failures as he felt confident going out to bat, yet failed to produce the goods. He admitted that his bowling too was not as consistent as it should have been and realized that once again he would have to work harder at his game to fight his way back.
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