Dominic Ostler | |
Country: | England |
Fullname: | Dominic Piers Ostler |
Birth Date: | 15 July 1970 |
Birth Place: | Solihull, Warwickshire, England |
Batting: | Right-handed |
Bowling: | Right-arm medium |
Role: | Batsman |
Club1: | Warwickshire |
Year1: | 1990–2004 |
Type1: | First-class |
Debutdate1: | 26 May |
Debutyear1: | 1990 |
Debutfor1: | Warwickshire |
Debutagainst1: | Worcestershire |
Lastdate1: | 2 August |
Lastyear1: | 2003 |
Lastfor1: | Warwickshire |
Lastagainst1: | India A |
Type2: | List A |
Debutdate2: | 20 May |
Debutyear2: | 1990 |
Debutfor2: | Warwickshire |
Debutagainst2: | Gloucestershire |
Lastdate2: | 27 July |
Lastyear2: | 2004 |
Lastfor2: | Warwickshire |
Lastagainst2: | Lancashire |
Columns: | 3 |
Column1: | FC |
Matches1: | 205 |
Runs1: | 10,856 |
Bat Avg1: | 34.90 |
100S/50S1: | 16/67 |
Top Score1: | 225 |
Deliveries1: | 251 |
Wickets1: | 1 |
Bowl Avg1: | 295.00 |
Fivefor1: | 0 |
Tenfor1: | 0 |
Best Bowling1: | 1/46 |
Catches/Stumpings1: | 259/– |
Column2: | LA |
Matches2: | 275 |
Runs2: | 7,238 |
Bat Avg2: | 32.16 |
100S/50S2: | 3/50 |
Top Score2: | 134 |
Deliveries2: | 21 |
Wickets2: | 1 |
Bowl Avg2: | 14.00 |
Fivefor2: | 0 |
Tenfor2: | 0 |
Best Bowling2: | 1/4 |
Catches/Stumpings2: | 98/– |
Column3: | T20 |
Matches3: | 5 |
Runs3: | 56 |
Bat Avg3: | 11.20 |
100S/50S3: | 0/0 |
Top Score3: | 23 |
Deliveries3: | – |
Wickets3: | – |
Bowl Avg3: | – |
Fivefor3: | – |
Tenfor3: | – |
Best Bowling3: | – |
Catches/Stumpings3: | 3/– |
Date: | 27 July |
Year: | 2015 |
Source: | https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/4/4576/4576.html CricketArchive |
Dominic Piers Ostler (born 15 July 1970) is a former cricketer who played in first-class, List A and Twenty20 cricket for Warwickshire between 1990 and 2004.[1] He also played for the England A cricket team in 1995 and 1996 in first-class and List A games. He was born in Solihull.
Ostler played for most of his career in senior cricket as a specialist right-handed middle-order batsman; he bowled occasionally at right-arm medium pace, was an outstanding fielder at slip and also very occasionally kept wicket.[1] He was a regular in the Warwickshire side pretty much from his debut to the end of 2002, apart from a period in the late 1990s when he lost confidence and form; a second downturn in form led to his retirement in 2003, though he appeared in a few List A matches the following season. He remains as of 2015 a regular player in high-quality Birmingham area club cricket.[2]
Ostler made a low-key entry into Warwickshire's first team, but in his third match in 1990 his steadiness, batting at No 8, helped his side to take a somewhat contrived victory over Derbyshire after Derbyshire has forfeited their entire second innings; he scored 42 not out to seal the win after a late collapse.[3] His highest score of this first season was only 71, but he was consistent and scored 510 runs at an average of exactly 30.00 in his eleven games.[1] The following year, when he was awarded his county cap, he played regularly and made 1284 runs at an average of 36.68; the season also contained his first first-class century, an innings of 120 not out that saved the match against Kent after Warwickshire had been forced to follow on.[4]
That 1991 season set the pattern for the next four years of Ostler's cricket career: he was a consistent if rarely flamboyant scorer and was ever-present in Warwickshire's middle order in both first-class and List A matches. He passed 1000 first-class runs in a season in 1992, 1993 and 1994, and was only 17 runs short in 1995.[1] In each of these seasons, there were large-scale centuries from Ostler. In 1992, he made 192 against Surrey; the following season, the Essex away match produced a score of 174 for him; in 1994, he scored 186 against Yorkshire; and in 1995 his first double-century was a score of 208 in the home match with Surrey.[5] [6] [7] [8]
In the winter of 1995–96, Ostler was picked for the England A tour to Pakistan, where he played in three of the five first-class matches; in the game against Pakistan A, he top-scored in England A's first innings with 68, but in the other tour matches he was not successful.[9] The England A team re-assembled for the first representative match of the 1996 season to play against a team called "The Rest"; England A won the game, but Ostler scored only 13 and he was not then selected for any further representative matches.[10] Ostler's cricket career then went into a severe decline across the rest of the 1990s to the point where, in 1998, he played in only six first-class matches for Warwickshire, scoring just 173 runs, of which 133 came in a single unbeaten innings against the less-than-arduous bowling of Oxford University.[1] His form in List A cricket remained better for longer, but in both 1998 and 1999 he played in only around half of the county's games.[1]
Ostler's return to form and favour came in the 2000 season, when he scored 1096 runs at a career-best average of 49.81; he was also granted a benefit in the 2000 season by Warwickshire.[1] He was heading for similar success in 2001, averaging 47.27 with the bat and having taken 22 catches in just 10 first-class matches, when his season came to an abrupt end with an elbow injury in the July fixture against Derbyshire.[1] Earlier in the 2001 season he had recorded his highest one-day cricket score with an unbeaten innings of 134 against Gloucestershire.[11] He returned for 2002 and scored 1039 first-class runs at an average of 43.29, taking 24 catches in 14 matches as well; the runs included an innings of 225 late in the season against Yorkshire off just 240 balls, which was his highest first-class score.[12] But the following season, 2003, he played only a few games, losing his place in a rotational squad system and not regaining it, and he played just three List A games and one Twenty20 game in 2004 before retiring.