John Bracewell

John Bracewell
Personal information
Full name John Garry Bracewell
Born (1958-04-15) 15 April 1958
Auckland, New Zealand
Batting style Right-handed
Bowling style Right arm off break
Role Coach
International information
National side
Test debut (cap 147) 28 November 1980 v Australia
Last Test 10 July 1990 v England
ODI debut (cap 46) 11 June 1983 v Pakistan
Last ODI 1 May 1990 v Pakistan
Domestic team information
YearsTeam
1982–1990 Auckland
1981–1982 Otago
Career statistics
Competition Test ODI FC LA
Matches 41 53 149 107
Runs scored 1,001 512 4,354 1,374
Batting average 20.42 16.51 25.91 20.20
100s/50s 1/4 0/0 4/21 0/3
Top score 110 43 110 66
Balls bowled 8,403 2,447 32,351 5,001
Wickets 102 33 522 90
Bowling average 35.81 57.09 26.66 35.23
5 wickets in innings 4 0 33 0
10 wickets in match 1 n/a 9 n/a
Best bowling 6/32 2/3 8/81 3/19
Catches/stumpings 31/– 19/– 125/– 40/–
Source: Cricinfo, 26 April 2009

John Garry Bracewell (born 15 April 1958) is a New Zealand cricketer and coach. He played 41 Test matches between 1979–80 and 1990, as well as 53 One Day Internationals. He was the coach of the New Zealand cricket team between September 2003 and November 2008. His brother Brendon also played Test cricket, and his brothers Douglas and Mark also played at first-class level. John Bracewell is the uncle of test representative Doug Bracewell and first-class representative Michael Bracewell.[1]

Career

Bracewell scored 1,001 runs in Tests, and 512 in ODI matches, with late-order hard-hitting right hand batting, and took 102 Test and 33 ODI wickets with his right-arm off-breaks.[1] He holds the record for the longest ODI career without scoring a half-century or taking a three-wicket haul.[2] His Test career included one century – 110 against England on 7 August 1986.[3] He scored four first-class centuries in all as part of the 4,354 first class runs during a career for Auckland and Otago. He took 522 first class wickets.[1]

Coaching

Bracewell's approach to team selection has fallen under scrutiny during the 2006/2007 season.[1] Despite levelling the home series with Sri Lanka two-all, New Zealand's top order batting has consistently displayed frailty, and this was most apparent after New Zealand compiled a dismal team total of 73 in one ODI during that series. Moreover, Bracewell has opted for a "rotation" policy within his squad for determining team selections, meaning the batting line-up has been shuffled consistently between successive ODIs. This has received criticism from local media who highlight that New Zealand Cricket is not currently afforded the luxury of a reserve pool of competitive international players, thus making the policy somewhat redundant.

Bracewell also controversially called Australian Fast-bowler Shaun Tait a chucker, and copped a lot of criticism from the cricketing community and also 'revealing' that Adam Gilchrist ducked out of the One-Day match in Hobart because of family issues but shortly, Bracewell withdrew these comments and issued an official apology.[4]

See also

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 Smyth, Rob (January 2009). "Player Profile: John Bracewell". CricInfo. Retrieved 2009-10-14.
  2. ↑ Basevi, Travis; George Binoy (14 October 2009). "Fifty-three ODIs without a fifty or a three-for". CricInfo. Retrieved 2009-10-14.
  3. ↑ "Statistics / Statsguru / JG Bracewell / Test matches". CricInfo. Retrieved 2009-10-14.
  4. ↑ "Braces apologises for Gilchrist rumour". The Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 7 October 2011.
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