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Full name Adam John Hollioake
Born September 5, 1971, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Current age 36 years 317 days
Major teams England,Essex,Surrey
Batting style Right-hand bat
Bowling style Right-arm medium
Relations Brother - BC Hollioake
Batting and fielding averages
Mat
Inns
NO
Runs
HS
Ave
BF
SR
100
50
4s
6s
Ct
St
Tests
4
6
0
65
45
10.83
158
41.13
0
0
7
1
4
0
ODIs
35
30
6
606
83*
25.25
807
75.09
0
3
46
4
13
0
First-class
173
263
21
9376
208
38.74
18
55
157
0
List A
284
249
36
5984
117*
28.09
2
30
87
0
Twenty20
22
19
6
306
65*
23.53
222
137.83
0
1
22
13
5
0
Bowling averages
Mat
Inns
Balls
Runs
Wkts
BBI
BBM
Ave
Econ
SR
4w
5w
10
Tests
4
3
144
67
2
2/31
2/55
33.50
2.79
72.0
0
0
0
ODIs
35
32
1208
1019
32
4/23
4/23
31.84
5.06
37.7
2
0
0
First-class
173
8808
4927
120
5/62
41.05
3.35
73.4
1
0
List A
284
9074
8186
352
6/17
6/17
23.25
5.41
25.7
18
7
0
Twenty20
22
19
385
515
40
5/21
5/21
12.87
8.02
9.6
2
2
0
Career statistics
Test debut
England v Australia at Nottingham, Aug 7-10, 1997 scorecard
Last Test
West Indies v England at Port of Spain, Feb 5-9, 1998 scorecard
Test statistics
ODI debut
England v Pakistan at Birmingham, Aug 31, 1996 scorecard
Last ODI
England v India at Birmingham, May 29-30, 1999 scorecard
ODI statistics
First-class span
1993 - 2004
List A span
1992 - 2004
Twenty20 debut
Surrey v Middlesex at The Oval, Jun 13, 2003 scorecard
Last Twenty20
Middlesex v Essex at Lord's, Jul 6, 2007 scorecard
Profile
What Adam Hollioake lacked in ability, he made up for with attitude. He was a natural leader, encouraged his Surrey side to get up the opposition's noses, and relished a scrap. His batting was more artisan than artiste but he was strong square of the wicket and possessed a tasty cover-drive. As a seamer he was more effective in the one-day game, where his hard-to-pick knuckle ball fooled batsmen into playing too early. He shone with the bat in the one-day games against the 1997 Australians - even breaking into the Test team - and later that year inherited the captaincy of England's one-day side from Mike Atherton, who continued to lead in the Tests. It was an unprecedented but initially successful move as Hollioake's inexperienced squad lifted the Akai Singer Champions Trophy in Sharjah. But defeats in West Indies and at home to South Africa cost Hollioake his job. His England career appeared to be over when he was dropped after the disastrous 1999 World Cup, but was back in the selectors' thoughts ahead of the 2003 tournament. By then, however, he had suffered the heartbreak of seeing his talented younger brother, Ben, die in a car accident. Adam returned from an enforced break a more mature character and, sometimes batting like a man possessed, lifted Surrey to a poignant third Championship title in four years. At the end of the 2003 season, he embarked on a sponsored walk, cycle and sail from Scotland to Morocco to raise money for the Ben Hollioake Memorial Fund, and announced his intention to retire at the end of 2004. He came back for one match, in 2005, when he took a hat-trick in a fundraiser, and then in 2007 made an unexpected - and largely unsuccessful - return to Twenty20 cricket, playing for Essex. Lawrence Booth
