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Full name Phillip Anthony Jason DeFreitas
Born February 18, 1966, Scotts Head, Dominica
Current age 42 years 194 days
Major teams England,Boland,Derbyshire,Lancashire,Leicestershire
Batting style Right-hand bat
Bowling style Right-arm fast-medium
Batting and fielding averages
Mat
Inns
NO
Runs
HS
Ave
BF
SR
100
50
4s
6s
Ct
St
Tests
44
68
5
934
88
14.82
1691
55.23
0
4
103
8
14
0
ODIs
103
66
23
690
67
16.04
823
83.83
0
1
46
10
26
0
First-class
372
533
50
10991
123*
22.75
10
54
127
0
List A
479
346
67
5181
90
18.56
0
13
101
0
Twenty20
11
9
1
63
18
7.87
72
87.50
0
0
3
2
0
0
Bowling averages
Mat
Inns
Balls
Runs
Wkts
BBI
BBM
Ave
Econ
SR
4w
5w
10
Tests
44
76
9838
4700
140
7/70
9/165
33.57
2.86
70.2
8
4
0
ODIs
103
103
5712
3775
115
4/35
4/35
32.82
3.96
49.6
1
0
0
First-class
372
72073
34809
1248
7/21
27.89
2.89
57.7
61
6
List A
479
23007
15054
539
5/13
5/13
27.92
3.92
42.6
12
7
0
Twenty20
11
10
150
217
9
3/39
3/39
24.11
8.68
16.6
0
0
0
Career statistics
Test debut
Australia v England at Brisbane, Nov 14-19, 1986 scorecard
Last Test
England v West Indies at Leeds, Jun 8-11, 1995 scorecard
Test statistics
ODI debut
Australia v England at Perth, Jan 1, 1987 scorecard
Last ODI
England v Australia at The Oval, May 24, 1997 scorecard
ODI statistics
First-class span
1985 - 2005
List A span
1985 - 2004
Twenty20 debut
Leicestershire v Yorkshire at Leicester, Jun 16, 2003 scorecard
Last Twenty20
Faisalabad Wolves v PCA Masters XI at Leicester, Sep 17, 2005 scorecard
Profile
With a side-on squint-cum-grimace, DeFreitas flings himself at the crease and throws both arms skywards at the same time. No matter that his action wouldn't win any beauty contests: at his peak, around 1991, he was one of England's most consistent seamers, combining away movement, inswing and legcutters. He would later add offbreaks to his repertoire. His early promise earned him a Test debut in Australia at the age of 21, but his lack of firepower on overseas pitches meant he rarely extended his run of appearances beyond an English summer, and when Dominic Cork arrived on the scene in 1995, DeFreitas's Test career was over. As a batsman he took an age to mature - failing to score a Test fifty until his 22nd appearance - but he can be destructive and turned games at The Oval in 1994 and Adelaide the following winter with some fluent hitting over the top. A tendency to self-destruct, however, meant he never became the post-Botham allrounder England craved. In the field, his strong arm makes him a natural cover sweeper. His long and prolific county career began at Leicestershire, blossomed at Lancashire, where he helped win several one-day trophies, before taking him to Derbyshire and finally back to Leicestershire. His career finished in 2005, where it had all started in 1985 - at Grace Road - after he appeared for the PCA Masters in the first International 20:20 Championships. Lawrence Booth
Notes
Leicestershire 1985-1988 and 2000-date, Lancashire 1989-1993, Derbyshire 1994-1999, Boland 1993-94 to 1994-95
