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(born
30 May 1966 in
Haslingden ,
Lancashire ) is an
English Cricketer .
He made his
First-class debut for
Lancashire County Cricket Club in
1987 (having played a single
Sunday League match for them the previous season) and remained with that county for his entire career, scoring 3,778 runs
At 27.98 and taking 262 wickets
At 30.35 with his medium-pace
Seamers in his 124 matches.
Enormously popular with the Lancashire crowd thanks to his uncomplicated batting style and equally old-fashioned waistline, his most successful period came towards the end of his career: in
1998 he helped his county to both
NatWest Trophy and Sunday League success, and made his
One-day International debut against
Sri Lanka late in the summer. For these performances he was made one of
1999 's
Wisden Cricketers Of The Year .
Austin was selected for the
1999 World Cup squad, and opened the bowling with
Darren Gough in England's opening game, taking 2-25 against Sri Lanka at
Lord's . However, his international career was to last just one more match, against
Kenya later in the same tournament, and after that the rest of his time in the game was spent back at Lancashire, where his
Benefit in
2000 raised £155,000. He played no first-class cricket after early June of that season but continued to appear in some one-day games for another year.
After a handful of appearances for
Cumberland in
2002 , and a part in the Lancashire League's Worsley Cup final the following year, Austin retired from cricket at the end of the
2003 season.
