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Full name Craig John McDermott
Born April 14, 1965, Raceview, Ipswich, Queensland
Current age 43 years 218 days
Major teams Australia,Queensland
Also known as Billy
Batting style Right-hand bat
Bowling style Right-arm fast
Relations Son - A McDermott
Batting and fielding averages
Mat
Inns
NO
Runs
HS
Ave
BF
SR
100
50
4s
6s
Ct
St
Tests
71
90
13
940
42*
12.20
1716
54.77
0
0
90
6
19
0
ODIs
138
78
17
432
37
7.08
492
87.80
0
0
36
8
27
0
First-class
174
210
35
2856
74
16.32
0
7
53
0
List A
176
97
23
594
41
8.02
0
0
32
0
Bowling averages
Mat
Inns
Balls
Runs
Wkts
BBI
BBM
Ave
Econ
SR
4w
5w
10
Tests
71
124
16586
8332
291
8/97
11/157
28.63
3.01
56.9
17
14
2
ODIs
138
138
7461
5018
203
5/44
5/44
24.71
4.03
36.7
4
1
0
First-class
174
36785
19025
677
8/44
28.10
3.10
54.3
37
4
List A
176
9416
6212
254
5/44
5/44
24.45
3.95
37.0
7
1
0
Career statistics
Test debut
Australia v West Indies at Melbourne, Dec 22-27, 1984 scorecard
Last Test
Australia v Sri Lanka at Adelaide, Jan 25-29, 1996 scorecard
Test statistics
ODI debut
Australia v West Indies at Melbourne, Jan 6, 1985 scorecard
Last ODI
Australia v Kenya at Visakhapatnam, Feb 23, 1996 scorecard
ODI statistics
First-class span
1983/84 - 1995/96
List A span
1983/84 - 1995/96
Profile
After bursting onto the scene as a 19-year-old in England in 1985, when he took 30 wickets in six Tests, Craig McDermott had a stop-start, injury-ravaged career (which included a twisted bowel and a broken ankle) but fought back to become Australia's leading wicket-taker for a time, establishing himself as Australia's premier strike bowler in the early 1990s. McDermott was not as fiery as his red hair suggested, nor did he capture the public imagination in the manner of Dennis Lillee or Shane Warne, but he was a textbook outswing bowler with a classic side-on action who could run through any batting order on his day. He was also a thumping batsman in his youth. Like all self-respecting Aussies, he saved his best for England, with 84 wickets in 17 Tests, including two eight-fors and eight of his 14 five-fors. His best performance was probably at Perth in 1990-91, when he took 8 for 97 as England collapsed from 191 for 2 to 244 all out. Injuries hit McDermott again towards the end of his career: he missed the best part of the 1993 Ashes tour, as well as the famous victory in the Caribbean in 1994-95 and the World Cup a year later.
Greg Baum
