Mark Richardson - Age, Career Info & Stats

Mark Richardson is a former New Zealand test team player. This player represented his country in international test matches. He played around 38 international games from 2000 to 2004. He had a very brief international presence but a good career. He was called Rigor by his countrymen as he moved around like a dead man and named after Rigor Mortis. This man also played for Auckland, Otago, and Buckinghamshire. He also played Hawke Cup and represented the team Dunedin Metropolitan.

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Batting and Fielding Averages of Mark Richardson

	Mat	Inns	NO	Runs	HS	Ave	BF	SR	100	50	4s	6s	Ct
Tests	38	65	3	2776	145	44.77	7370	37.66	4	19	344	4	26
ODIs	4	4	0	42	26	10.50	97	43.29	0	0	4	0	1
First-class	157	264	31	9994	306	42.89			20	48			90
List A	91	87	7	2523	128*	31.53			3	15			16

Bowling Averages

	Mat	Inns	Balls	Runs	Wkts	BBI	BBM	Ave	Econ	SR	4w	5w	10
Tests	38	3	66	21	1	1/16	1/16	21.00	1.90	66.0	0	0	0
ODIs	4	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–
First-class	157		3966	1911	44	5/77		43.43	2.89	90.1		1	0
List A	91		810	592	12	2/25	2/25	49.33	4.38	67.5	0	0	0

He has a dream movement in his career. He started as a bowler and did everything to become a popular bowler in his country. He was a left-arm spinner and used to bat in down the line. When his bowling career failed, he took a chance and tried his hand in batting. He practiced really well and became the opener for New Zealand’s international games! His batting career started a little late at an age of 29. His glorious batting career includes 19 fifties and four centuries and 2776 runs which is a huge one. In his career, he bagged only one wicket in a test match against Pakistan.

Though he was a slow runner, he was an efficient fielder on the field and saved his team from some unnatural and inevitable conditions. He retired from all forms of international cricket 2004 and scored a huge 9994 runs in his glorious cricketing career. He is working with SKY Sports after retiring from cricket. Since 2004 he is working as a cricket commentator on the channel and entertaining viewers with his witty points on different cricketers and different matches. In 2012 he worked as a sports announcer in the popular AM Show. Since then this cricketer is doing different kinds of radio and televisions shows that involve or somehow associated with cricket.

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