Cricket Career of Andy Flower

 Andy Flower  is a former international cricketer for Zimbabwe who was born in born 28 April 1968 Cape Town, South Africa. He started from his high school days at Oriel Boys' High School and Vainona High School and played most of his career alongside his younger brother Grant Flower. He is considered to be one of the best wicket-keeper batsmen, alongside players like Australian Adam Gilchrist. He made his international debut in a One Day International against Sri Lanka at New Plymouth, New Zealand, in the 1992 Cricket World Cup. He was Zimbabwe's wicket-keeper for more than 10 years and statistically by far the finest batsman the country has fielded. A good player of spin, he made 550 runs in a Test series against India in 2000/01. This tally came in just four innings and he was only dismissed twice. He is one of the few players to score a century on ODI debut.


Flower played 63 Test matches for Zimbabwe, scoring 4,794 runs at an average of 51.54 and taking 151 catches and 9 stumpings, and 213 One Day Internationals, scoring 6,786 runs at an average of 35.34 and taking 141 catches and 32 stumpings. He holds the Zimbabwean records for the most Test career runs, the highest Test batting average, and most ODI career runs. He is the only Zimbabwean in the ICC's Top 100 All-time Test Batting rankings at number 31 (November 2013), putting him in the company of Brian Lara (ranked 23), Sachin Tendulkar (29), Steve Waugh (equal 31 with Flower on 895 points) and Rahul Dravid (33).
His aggregate score of 341 in the first Test against South Africa in 2001 is the second highest ever by a batsman on the losing side.

INTERNATIONAL CAREER

Full name	Andrew Flower
Born	28 April 1968 (age 46) Cape Town, Cape Province, South Africa
Nickname	Petals; Flower Power (along with brother Grant)
Height	5 ft 10 in (1.78 m)
Batting style	Left-handed
Bowling style	Right-arm off break
Role	Wicket-keeper
International information
National side	Zimbabwe
Test debut (cap 6)	18 October 1992 v India
Last Test	16 November 2002 v Pakistan
ODI debut (cap 20)	23 February 1992 v Sri Lanka
Last ODI	15 March 2003 v Sri Lanka
Domestic team information
Years	Team
2002–2006	Essex
1996–2005	MCC
2003/04	South Australia
1993/94-2002/03	Mashonaland
Career statistics
Competition Test ODIs FC LA Matches 63 213 223 380 Runs scored 4794 6786 16379 12511 Batting average 51.54 35.34 54.05 38.97 100s/50s 12/27 4/55 49/75 12/97 Top score 232* 145 271* 145 Balls bowled 3 30 629 132 Wickets – – 7 1 Bowling average – – 38.57 103.00 5 wickets in innings – – 0 0 10 wickets in match – – 0 0 Best bowling – – 1/1 1/21 Catches/stumpings 151/9 141/32 361/21 254/48
Source: Cricinfo, 13 November 2007

International cricket centuries

Test centuries

• In the column Runs, * indicates being not out
• The column title Match refers to the Match Number of the player's career

Test hundreds of Andy Flower

	Runs	Match	Against	City/Country	Venue	Year
[1]	115	4	India	New Delhi, India	Feroz Shah Kotla	16 March 1993
[2]	156	11	Pakistan	Harare, Zimbabwe	Harare Sports Club	31 January 1995
[3]	112	21	England	Bulawayo, Zimbabwe	Queens Sports Club	19 December 1996
[4]	105*	26	Sri Lanka	Colombo, Sri Lanka	Sinhalese Sports Club Ground	17 January 1998
[5]	100*	29	Pakistan	Bulawayo, Zimbabwe	Queens Sports Club	17 March 1998
[6]	129	38	Sri Lanka	Harare, Zimbabwe	Harare Sports Club	29 November 1999
[7]	113*	40	West Indies	Port of Spain, Trinidad	Queen's Park Oval	18 March 2000
[8]	183*	46	India	Delhi, India	Kotla	19 November 2000
[9]	232*	47	India	Nagpur, India	Vidarbha Cricket Association Ground	29 November 2000
[10]	142	53	South Africa	Harare, Zimbabwe	Harare Sports Club	9 September 2001
[11]	199*	53	South Africa	Harare, Zimbabwe	Harare Sports Club	10 September 2001
[12]	114*	56	Bangladesh	Chittagong, Bangladesh	MA Aziz Stadium	15 November 2001

One Day International centuries

• In the column Runs, * indicates being not out
• The column title Match refers to the Match Number of the player's career

One Day International centuries of Andy Flower

	Runs	Match	Against	City/Country	Venue	Year
[1]	115*	1	Sri Lanka	New Plymouth, New Zealand	Pukekura Park	1992
[2]	120*	150	Sri Lanka	Sharjah, UAE	Sharjah Cricket Association Stadium	2000
[3]	142*	178	England	Harare, Zimbabwe	Harare Sports Club	2001
[4]	145	196	India	Colombo, Sri Lanka	R Premadasa Stadium	2002

Source: Wikipedia