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Date |
Test |
Venue |
Opp. |
1st Inns |
2nd Inns |
Batting |
Ct |
Result |
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13/08/81 |
5 |
Manchester |
Aus |
6-1-17-2 |
17-3-71-2 |
52* & 14 |
0 |
Won |
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13/01/82 |
5 |
Madras |
Ind |
31-4-135-0 |
dnb |
6 & dnb |
0 |
Draw |
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17/02/82 |
1 |
Colombo |
SL |
13-4-44-0 |
dnb |
3 & dnb |
0 |
Won |
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10/06/82 |
1 |
Lord's |
Ind |
4-1-15-0 |
17-3-51-1 |
41* & dnb |
1 |
Won |
| |
08/07/82 |
3 |
The Oval |
Ind |
24-4-69-1 |
4-1-12-0 |
3 & dnb |
1 |
Draw |
| |
12/07/84 |
3 |
Leeds |
WI |
26.5-7-61-6 |
7-2-24-0 |
3 & 4 |
1 |
Lost |
| |
26/07/84 |
4 |
Manchester |
WI |
28-9-76-3 |
dnb |
26 & 14 |
0 |
Lost |
| |
09/08/84 |
5 |
The Oval |
WI |
17-7-25-3 |
26-1-96-2 |
16 & 4 |
1 |
Lost |
| |
23/08/84 |
1 |
Lord's |
SL |
36-7-89-1 |
1-0-2-0 |
0 & dnb |
0 |
Draw |
| |
13/06/85 |
1 |
Leeds |
Aus |
22-3-74-2 |
17-4-57-0 |
12 & dnb |
0 |
Won |
| |
27/06/85 |
2 |
Lord's |
Aus |
30-4-70-1 |
7-4-8-1 |
1* & 0 |
0 |
Lost |
| |
11/07/85 |
3 |
Nottingham |
Aus |
18-4-55-1 |
dnb |
7 & dnb |
0 |
Draw |
| |
01/08/85 |
4 |
Manchester |
Aus |
13-1-29-0 |
6-2-4-0 |
7 & dnb |
0 |
Draw |
Summary of all matches
| M |
Runs |
HS |
Ave |
100s |
50s |
W |
BB |
Ave |
5w |
Ct |
| 13 |
213 |
52* |
14.20 |
0 |
1 |
26 |
6-61 |
41.69 |
1 |
4 |
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Paul Allott in action (for Lancashire) on 29th. May 1984. Photo George Herringshaw. ©
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Hard work, line & length and thought were attributes which became
Paul Allott's formula for success as a fast-medium bowler. Yet he was
once young and foolish and had to learn the hard way. That was
particularly so at Madras in a 1981-82 series, when he raced in and
tried to be a fast bowler on a very flat wicket. England bowled at
Viswanath and Yashpal Sharma for nearly two days taking no wickets. It
was a hard lesson well learnt. Allott made his England debut late in the
1981 Ashes series, during Ian Botham's devastating performances which
turned the series on its head. Allott's batting saved England at Old
Trafford, coming in at number 10 he made 52 not out from England's first
innings of 231, providing a platform for the blistering second innings
century by Botham which won the match by 102 runs.
Allott had a couple
of uneventful Tests against India at home in 1982 and he was in
England's 1983 World Cup team. He was then discarded in favour of other
promising bowlers like Cowans and Foster until the 1984 West Indians
embarked on one of those 5-0 drubbings of England, dubbed 'The
Blackwash.' Allott reappeared in the third Test, having reinvented
himself as a line-and-length fast-medium bowler. Impatient Caribbean
strokemakers queued up to nick him into the slips. His comeback gave him
6-61, with Haynes bowled, Richards caught, Dujon lbw. Allott was the
only steady bowler in the next three Tests and was one of the few
Englishmen not to be swept away by the black tide. He went to India with
Gower in 1984-85, but did not play. He tried to repeat his 1984 role in
the Ashes-winning series of 1985, but Australian batsmen were more
circumspect than the West Indians and he lost his place for the last two
Tests. (Bob Harragan)
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