Oliver Newby

Full Name	Oliver Newby
Nickname	Newbs
DoB	26th August 1984
Height	6' 5''
Bats/Bowls	Right hand/Right arm fast-medium
Shirt Number	8
Lancashire	Scholarship 2003. Debut 2003. Other clubs: Notts (loan) 2005, Gloucs (loan) 2008
Tests	0
ODI	0

Profile

Oliver Newby is a pace bowler in the same mould as one of his big mates, Sajid Mahmood. Like Saj, Oliver’s biggest attribute is arguably his speed.

Despite being around the first team set-up for a few years now, Oliver has found it difficult to break into the side on a regular basis, although he played 12 of the 16 County Championship matches in 2009.

Towards the end of the 2008 season, the now 25 year-old demonstrated that he could have a big part to play in the near future, showing he has the ability to harness pace with accuracy.

Newby claimed 18 Championship wickets at 30.16 in 2008, notching 12 of them in the final two games of the season against Kent at Liverpool and Somerset at Taunton. Lancashire won both games, while Newby pinched two vital four-wicket hauls.

Newby, born in Blackburn, is yet another product of the Lancashire youth system and made his debut while on a Scholarship contract in the 2003 season.

He was one of the first two players - Alamgir Sheriyar the other – to exploit the loan system that the ECB brought into the county game. In 2005, he spent a month on loan at eventual county champions Nottinghamshire where he played two games.

With a few injuries and international call-ups hitting the Lancashire camp in 2006, Oliver got his chance to play a few Championship games. Without putting in any match-winning performances, it was clear to see that Mike Watkinson and company had something to work with.

That notion was emphasised even further when he began 2007 at Warwickshire in the Championship with match figures of 6-137. He finished the season with 18 wickets in LV Division One, and also signed a new two year contract with the county.

His tally in 2008 was exactly the same, but he bettered that in 2009 with his career best haul of 25 wickets.

Even so, he perhaps didn’t make the strides he would have been hoping for, but a full winter working with new coach Peter Moores will hopefully do him the world of good ahead of 2010.

He only played two one-day matches all season – both of them in the Friends Provident Trophy – although he did claim a career best of 4-41 in a rain affected win over the Glamorgan Dragons at Cardiff in May.

Graham Hardcastle
(c) Lancashire County Cricket Club Ltd
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