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Dimitri Mascarenhas
Colour photo of a male
Mascarenhas pictured in 2009
Personal information
Full name
Adrian Dimitri Mascarenhas
Born (1977-10-30) 30 October 1977 (age 48)
Chiswick, London, England
NicknameDimi[1]
Height6 ft 1[1] in (1.85 m)
BattingRight-handed
BowlingRight-arm medium-fast
International information
National side
ODI debut (cap 203)1 July 2007 v West Indies
Last ODI17 September 2009 v Australia
ODI shirt no.32
T20I debut (cap 25)28 June 2007 v West Indies
Last T20I14 June 2009 v India
T20I shirt no.32
Domestic team information
YearsTeam
1996Dorset
1996–2013Hampshire (squad no. 17)
2008–2010Rajasthan Royals (squad no. 32)
2008/09–2011/12Otago (squad no. 17)
2012–2013Kings XI Punjab (squad no. 17)
2012/13Wellington
2012/13Melbourne Stars
2013Rangpur Riders
2013/14Hobart Hurricanes
Career statistics
Competition ODI T20I FC LA
Matches 20 14 195 268
Runs scored 245 123 6,495 4,407
Batting average 22.27 15.37 25.07 24.89
100s/50s 0/1 0/0 8/23 0/27
Top score 52 31 131 79
Balls bowled 822 252 28,331 11,373
Wickets 13 12 450 309
Bowling average 48.76 25.75 28.22 26.35
5 wickets in innings 0 0 17 2
10 wickets in match 0 0 0 0
Best bowling 3/23 3/18 6/25 5/27
Catches/stumpings 4/– 7/– 76/– 66/–
Source: Cricinfo, 31 March 2024

Adrian Dimitri Mascarenhas (born 30 October 1977) is an English former international cricketer. A right-handed batsman and right-arm medium-fast bowler, he played internationally for the English cricket team and domestically for Hampshire County Cricket Club. He held the record for most runs in an over in a One Day International for England, with 30, scored off Yuvraj Singh of India on 5 September 2007. He was the bowling coach for both Otago and the New Zealand national cricket team[2] before resigning after the 2016 summer for family reasons.[3]

Early life

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Mascarenhas was born in Chiswick in London to Malik Mascarenhas and his wife, Pauline (née de Croos), both from the Bharatha community of Negombo in Sri Lanka.[4] They had emigrated to England in the mid-1970s.[5] As a child, his parents emigrated again, this time to Melbourne in Australia.[5] He initially grew up there, playing cricket at under-12 level for Ringwood, before the family relocated to Perth.[5] His father ran a chain of successful fast-food restaurants in Perth,[6] affording him the opportunity to be privately educated at Trinity College.[6] At Trinity, Simon Katich, who was two years his senior, attempted unsuccessfully to get Mascarenhas in the college cricket team at the age of 14, having been impressed by him.[6] In Perth, he played club cricket for Melville Cricket Club.[4] He captained Western Australia at both under 17 and 19 levels, with Mascarenhas fostering ambitions to play for Australia.[7] During the 1995–96 season, the Hampshire batsman Paul Terry joined Melville as their overseas player. He was instrumental in finding Mascarenhas and his Melville teammate, Chris Rogers, club opportunties in England in 1996.[8]

Cricket career

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Early years

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Coming to England, Mascarenhas joined Bournemouth Cricket Club and helped them to win the 1996 Southern Cricket League.[7][9] He played minor counties cricket for Dorset in 1996, making a single appearance against Cornwall in the Minor Counties Championship;[10] he took bowling figures of 7 for 64 in Cornwall's first innings.[11] He began playing for the Hampshire Second XI during the season, and made his senior debut, aged 18,[12] against Middlesex in a List A one-day match in the 1996 Axa Equity & Law League at the start of September.[13] Two-days after his one-day debut, Mascarenhas made his first-class debut against Glamorgan at Southampton in the County Championship;[14] he took 6 for 88 in Glamorgan's first innings, the best figures by a Hampshire debutant since Charlie Llewellyn's 8 for 132 in 1899.[15] He followed this up with a second Championship appearance against Kent, claiming 16 wickets in his first two matches.[16] Mascarenhas was offered a two-year contract by Hampshire at the end of the season.[6][17] During the 1997 season, he was afflicted with a back injury in 1997 that limited him to six first-class and one-day appearances apiece.[6][14][13]

Mascarenhas was overlooked for the first County Championship match of the 1998 season, but thereafter played in all of Hampshire's matches in both first-class and one-day cricket that season.[7] Playing in 17 first-class matches, he took 30 wickets at an average of 33.33,[18] and with the bat he scored 645 runs at an average of 28.04, making six half centuries.[19] his 63 runs against Leicestershire in May were crucial to helping Hampshire avoid an innings defeat, having shared in a partnership of 114 runs with Adrian Aymes earlier in the match.[20] He made 26 appearances in one-day cricket, taking 22 wickets at an average of 19.86;[21] with the bat, he scored 560 runs at an average of exactly 28, making five half centuries.[22] In the semi-final of the NatWest Trophy against Lancashire he demonstrated his all-round credentials, with Mascarenhas being adjudged man-of-the-match for his figures of 3 for 28 and half century (73 runs) with the bat; despite his efforts, Hampshire lost the match.[7] He was awarded his county cap in August,[23] and was voted Hampshire's player of the year in November.[24]

Midway through the 1999 season, Mascarenhas' back problems arose again, keeping him out of the team for parts of June and August.[25][26] Across the season he made 14 first-class appearances, scoring 465 runs at an average of 28.83;[19] he struggled with the ball, taking 17 wickets at a high average of 51.05.[18] In one-day cricket, he made 18 appearances, scoring 319 runs at an average of 21.26, making three half centuries.[22] In contrast to his form with the ball in first-class cricket, Mascarenhas took 21 wickets in one-day cricket, averaging 26.42 runs per wicket.[21]

Maiden century

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Mascarenhas scored his maiden first-class century during the 2000 County Championship, making 100 runs from 171 balls against Derbyshire, having added 187 runs for the sixth wicket with Derek Kenway.[27] In sixteen first-class matches in 2000, he scored 473 runs at an average of 20.56.[19] With the ball, he took 28 wickets at an average of 28.42.[18] In one-day cricket in 2000, his career-best figures of 4 for 25 against Middlesex guided Hampshire to the semi-final of the NatWest Trophy.[28] In 24 one-day matches, he took 38 wickets at an average of 21.18;[21] he ended the season as Hampshire's second highest wicket-taker in one-day cricket in 2000, one wicket behind Shane Warne.[29] Following the 2000 season, Mascarenhas underwent surgery in January 2001 for an ankle injury.[30] For the 2001 season, Hampshire moved from the County Ground in Southampton to their new home at the Rose Bowl.[31] He scored the first century to be made there when he made 104 runs against Worcestershire in the 2001 County Championship.[7] In 15 first-class appearances in 2001, he scored 447 runs at an average of 24.83.[19] With the ball, he claimed career-best figures of 6 for 60 against Derbyshire in July, securing a one wicket victory for Hampshire.[32] Overall, he took 40 wickets at an average of 25.37, taking five or more wickets in an innings twice.[18] In 20 one-day matches, he took 24 wickets at an average of 25.66,[18] alongside scoring 236 runs with one fifty.[21] Mascarenhas had bowled with a heel spur, that was operated on after the season. He recuperated in Perth, where he played Grade Cricket in the winter.[33]

Mascarenhas made sixteen first-class appearances in 2002.[14] In these, he took 37 wickets at an average of 30.83, taking five wickets in an innings once against Yorkshire in the County Championship in May.[19] With the bat, he scored 574 runs at an average of 23.91,[19] with a top-score of 94 runs against Surrey.[34] He played in 20 one-day matches in 2002, taking 32 wickets at an average of 19.76;[22] he took his first five wicket haul in one-day cricket in a 46 runs victory against Gloucestershire in the Norwich Union League, having earlier scored an unbeaten 38 runs from 21 balls in Hampshire's innings.[35] He ended the season as Hampshire's leading one-day wicket-taker.[36] In 2003, Mascarenhas made 17 first-class appearances.[14] He scored 600 runs, his most in a season, at an average of exactly 25.[19] He made an unbeaten century against Glamorgan in the County Championship in April.[37] Later in the season, he made 92 runs against Durham,[38] sharing in a partnership of 123 runs for the eighth wicket with Shaun Udal.[39] He took 40 wickets at an average of 32.17,[18] with season best figures of 6 for 55 against Northamptonshire, in a spell described as "accurate".[40] He took 39 wickets at an average of 17.02 in nineteen one-day matches;[21] nationally, he was the joint leading one-day wicket-taker with Graham Napier.[41] In June, he featured in Hampshire's first-ever Twenty20 match, played against Sussex at Southampton in the Twenty20 Cup, with Mascarenhas playing five matches in the tournaments inaugural running.[42]

Mascarenhas made 16 first-class appearances in 2004, scoring 477 runs at an average of 21.68;[19] his only century that season, a score of 104 runs, came against Durham in the County Championship.[43] He passed 50 wickets in a season for the first time,[43] taking 56 at an average of 18.67;[18] In 2004, he was the first player to record a hat-trick in Twenty20 cricket, claiming the wickets of Mark Davis, Mushtaq Ahmed and Jason Lewry of Sussex. He finished with figures of 5 for 14 from 3.5 overs, including two maidens.[44] He was part of the Hampshire team that won the C&G Trophy in 2005 and to finish runners-up in the Frizzell County Championship. In 2006, it was announced that Mascarenhas would receive a benefit year during the 2007 season as a reward for his excellent all round play for the county.

International debut

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Colour photo of a cricketer bowling
Mascarenhas hit five consecutive sixes off Yuvraj Singh (pictured) in a One Day International in 2007

Following Shane Warne's retirement at the end of the 2007 season, Mascarenhas was made club captain for the 2008 County Championship season. During the 2009 County Championship Mascarenhas missed the first matches of the season while playing in the IPL with the Rajasthan Royals. On his return he led Hampshire to the final of the 2009 Friends Provident Trophy at Lord's, where Hampshire beat local rivals Sussex by 6 wickets.

T20 franchise cricket

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Prior to the 2010 County Championship, Mascarenhas played for the Rajasthan Royals in the IPL, during which he picked up an ankle injury. Still injured for the first part of the 2010 English county season, Mascarenhas returned for Hampshire in the Friends Provident t20 against Kent, but during the match the injury flared up once more, therefore ruling him out for the rest of the season.[45]

He played for the newly formed Rangpur Riders in the 2012–13 Bangladesh Premier League,[46] making three appearances.[42] During the 2013 season he announced, aged 35, that he would be retiring from county cricket at the conclusion of the campaign, bowing out after 18 seasons with Hampshire. In total, he had scored more than 12,000 runs in all formats and taken nearly 900 wickets.

Mascarenhas played in New Zealand for Otago between 2008–09 and 2011–12 and for Wellington in 2012–13. In the Australian Big Bash League he played for Melbourne Stars in 2012–13 and Hobart Hurricanes in 2013–14.

In 2008, Mascarenhas signed for the Rajasthan Royals of the Indian Premier League. Following the England and Wales Cricket Board decision to not allow centrally-contracted England players to play in the tournament, Mascarenhas was the only English representative in the tournament's inaugural year. He returned for the following season, playing five matches and taking six wickets, and in 2010 when he took four wickets in two matches. Following an ankle injury Mascarenhas was forced to return home from the tournament.[47]

Mascarenhas was bought by the Kings XI Punjab franchisee during the auction conducted in January 2011 but had to be replaced by David Miller after struggling to recover from an Achilles tendon injury.[48] He was one of the guest commentators for ITV during the season. He played for the side in both 2012 and 2013.

International career

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In September 2006, Hampshire's Australian county captain Shane Warne publicly highlighted Mascarenhas' tremendous ability and issued a call for him to be rewarded with selection for the England One Day International (ODI) team. On 13 September 2006 he wrote in The Times: "It amazes me that England have never given him a chance in the one-day side. He is the best finisher with the bat in all situations in the country and his bowling is clever and accurate".[49]

He subsequently made his ODI debut on 1 July 2007 at Lord's against the West Indies, scoring 2 runs and completing 4 overs for 18 runs.[50] On 5 September 2007, in an ODI against India, he hit consecutive sixes off the final five balls of England's innings, which were bowled by Yuvraj Singh. On 8 September 2007 he took 3/23 off 10 overs as England won the one-day series 4–3, on the same day he was also called up to England's ICC World Twenty20 squad as a replacement for Ryan Sidebottom.[51] During England's one day series in New Zealand, he hit 4 consecutive sixes against New Zealand in a Twenty20 match.[when?]

He played a total of 20 ODIs and 14 T20Is for England, scoring a total of 368 runs and taking 25 wickets across both formats.[50]

Geoff Miller – Twitter outburst

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In 2010, Mascarenhas vented his frustration at the chairman of the England selectors, Geoff Miller, claiming to have been ignored by him at a game.[52] He tweeted, calling Geoff Miller a 'knob' and other derogatory terms. He also pointed out that his teammate James Adams hit 194 runs in a match between Lancashire and Hampshire when Miller came to watch and Adams was not considered for the T20s.[52]

Following the Twitter outburst, Mascarenhas was banned for 14 days at the start of the 2011 season. Mascarenhas apologised unreservedly for his actions. He was fined £1000 by Hampshire and £500 by the ECB. The panel considered this to be a serious breach of the regulations, particularly given his status as a senior cricketer and club captain.[53] Mascarenhas also stated that he tweeted this after a night out and his actions were stupid and irresponsible and that he regretted any offence it may have caused[53] and that his tweet didn't reflect his true views on Miller.[54]

Coaching

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He has completed an ECB level-three coaching qualification and held player-coach roles with Hampshire, Rajasthan Royals and Hobart Hurricanes. In June 2015 Mascarenhas was appointed as New Zealand's full-time bowling coach having been head coach of New Zealand domestic side Otago since 2014.[2] He resigned as New Zealand coach in 2016, citing personal reasons.[3]

He was appointed by Middlesex as their specialist head bowling coach for the 2019 and 2020 Vitality t20 Blast competitions.

Personal life

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Mascarenhas married Nadine Taylor in February 2011 in Melbourne,[55] with Warne and Liz Hurley in attendance.[56]

References

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