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Full name Mark James Chilton
Born October 2, 1976, Sheffield, Yorkshire
Current age 31 years 278 days
Major teams Lancashire
Nickname Chilly, Jimmy Chill, Rodney Trotter
Batting style Right-hand bat
Bowling style Right-arm medium
Height
6 ft 2 in
Education Manchester Grammar School; Durham University
Batting and fielding averages
Mat
Inns
NO
Runs
HS
Ave
BF
SR
100
50
4s
6s
Ct
St
First-class
146
239
17
7040
131
31.71
17
25
111
0
List A
159
151
20
3885
115
29.65
4
19
49
0
Twenty20
32
22
8
236
38
16.85
267
88.38
0
0
14
1
13
0
Bowling averages
Mat
Inns
Balls
Runs
Wkts
BBI
BBM
Ave
Econ
SR
4w
5w
10
First-class
146
1311
664
10
1/1
66.40
3.03
131.1
0
0
List A
159
1082
992
41
5/26
5/26
24.19
5.50
26.3
1
1
0
Twenty20
32
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Career statistics
First-class debut
1997
Last First-class
Nottinghamshire v Lancashire at Nottingham, May 14-16, 2008 scorecard
List A debut
1997
Last List A
Scotland v Lancashire at Edinburgh, Apr 27, 2008 scorecard
Twenty20 debut
Nottinghamshire v Lancashire at Nottingham, Jun 16, 2003 scorecard
Last Twenty20
Gloucestershire v Lancashire at Birmingham, Aug 4, 2007 scorecard
Profile
A solid opening batsman who hits the ball cleanly, Mark Chilton moved seamlessly from Manchester Grammar School, where Michael Atherton and John Crawley were pupils, to Durham University, where his mild medium pace helped them win the British Universities tournament in 1997. He made his first-team debut for Lancashire in the same year, aged 19, having previously captained their youth sides. He was capped in 2002 after scoring 761 runs at 27.17, and topped 1000 runs the following year. The only ever-present player in the troubled season of 2004, he was appointed Lancashire captain when, in October, Warren Hegg resigned. He led the club to promotion in the Championship in 2005 but has been unable to break Lancashire's run without silverware. In 2006 they were runners-up to Sussex in the C&G final and finished second to them in the Championship in successive seasons, the near miss in 2007 leaving Chilton in tears at The Oval. He struggled for runs, his form sliding each summer, and despite his popularity around Old Trafford stood down at the end of 2007.
Andrew McGlashan October 2007
