# Alan Mullally
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{{Short description|English cricketer}}
{{For|the American businessman|Alan Mulally}}
{{EngvarB|date=August 2013}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=January 2024}}
{{Infobox cricketer
| name = Alan Mullally
| image =
| country = England
| fullname = Alan David Mullally
| nickname =
| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1969|7|12|df=y}}
| birth_place = [Southend-on-Sea](/source/Southend-on-Sea), Essex, England
| heightft = 6
| heightinch = 5
| batting = Right-handed
| bowling = Left-arm [fast-medium](/source/Seam_bowling)
| role = [Bowler](/source/Bowler_(cricket))
| international = true
| internationalspan = 1996–2001
| testdebutdate = 6 June
| testdebutyear = 1996
| testdebutagainst = India
| testcap = 578
| lasttestdate = 20 August
| lasttestyear = 2001
| lasttestagainst = Australia
| odidebutdate = 29 August
| odidebutyear = 1996
| odidebutagainst = Pakistan
| odicap = 142
| lastodidate = 21 June
| lastodiyear = 2001
| lastodiagainst = Australia
| club1 = [Western Australia](/source/Western_Warriors)
| year1 = 1987–1990
| clubnumber1 =
| club2 = [Hampshire](/source/Hampshire_County_Cricket_Club)
| year2 = 1988
| clubnumber2 =
| club3 = [Leicestershire](/source/Leicestershire_County_Cricket_Club)
| year3 = 1990–1999
| clubnumber3 =
| club4 = [Hampshire](/source/Hampshire_County_Cricket_Club)
| year4 = 2000–2005
| clubnumber4 = 11
| columns = 4
| column1 = [Test](/source/Test_cricket)
| matches1 = 19
| runs1 = 127
| bat avg1 = 5.52
| 100s/50s1 = 0/0
| top score1 = 24
| deliveries1 = 4,525
| wickets1 = 58
| bowl avg1 = 31.24
| fivefor1 = 1
| tenfor1 = 0
| best bowling1 = 5/105
| catches/stumpings1 = 6/–
| column2 = [ODI](/source/One_Day_International)
| matches2 = 50
| runs2 = 86
| bat avg2 = 5.73
| 100s/50s2 = 0/0
| top score2 = 20
| deliveries2 = 2,699
| wickets2 = 63
| bowl avg2 = 27.42
| fivefor2 = 0
| tenfor2 = 0
| best bowling2 = 4/18
| catches/stumpings2 = 8/–
| column3 = [FC](/source/First-class_cricket)
| matches3 = 230
| runs3 = 1,615
| bat avg3 = 8.59
| 100s/50s3 = 0/2
| top score3 = 75
| deliveries3 = 43,645
| wickets3 = 708
| bowl avg3 = 28.18
| fivefor3 = 31
| tenfor3 = 4
| best bowling3 = 9/93
| catches/stumpings3 = 44/–
| column4 = [LA](/source/List_A_cricket)
| matches4 = 307
| runs4 = 547
| bat avg4 = 7.01
| 100s/50s4 = 0/0
| top score4 = 38
| deliveries4 = 15,301
| wickets4 = 362
| bowl avg4 = 27.65
| fivefor4 = 3
| tenfor4 = 0
| best bowling4 = 6/38
| catches/stumpings4 = 44/–
| date = 12 August 2009
| source = http://www.cricinfo.com/england/content/player/17121.html Cricinfo
}}
'''Alan Mullally''' (born 12 July 1969) is an English former [first-class cricket](/source/first-class_cricket)er, who played Tests and ODIs. Mullally grew up in Western Australia, and played for the [Australian](/source/Australian_cricket_team) Under-19 side against their [West Indian](/source/West_Indian_cricket_team) counterparts in 1987/88.
==Domestic career==
That same season he made his first-class debut for [Western Australia](/source/Western_Warriors) in their [Sheffield Shield](/source/Sheffield_Shield) final victory over [Queensland](/source/Queensland_Bulls) at [Perth](/source/WACA_Ground). He stayed with Western Australia for another couple of seasons, with variable success.
Meanwhile, he had made his [Hampshire](/source/Hampshire_County_Cricket_Club) debut, against [Oxford University](/source/Oxford_University_Cricket_Club) in May 1988. He did not take a wicket in that match, and he spent the rest of the English summer in Hampshire's second team. A more productive time followed back in Australia in 1988/89 as he took 23 first-class wickets, including seven in an [innings victory](/source/The_result_in_cricket) in an [MG Kailis-Kemplast Trophy](/source/MG_Kailis-Kemplast_Trophy) game against [Tamil Nadu](/source/Tamil_Nadu) at Perth.
Mullally did not play in England in 1989, and the 1989/90 Australian season was something of a disappointment as he took just 11 first-class wickets, but in 1990 Mullally returned to [county cricket](/source/county_cricket) with [Leicestershire](/source/Leicestershire_County_Cricket_Club), doing reasonably well with the highlight a haul of 6–38 (which remains his best in [List A cricket](/source/List_A_cricket)) in a [one-day](/source/one-day_cricket) game against the touring [New Zealanders](/source/New_Zealand_cricket_team) in June. That winter he returned to Australia, playing just a single game for [Victoria](/source/Victoria_Bushrangers).
For several years Mullally performed steadily with Leicestershire, [capped](/source/county_cap) in 1993 and taking between 40 and 70 first-class wickets a season while playing in the great majority of the county's games. His most successful year during this period was 1996, when he claimed 70 first-class wickets and, perhaps more startling for a man renowned throughout his career for his incompetence with the bat, made his only two first-class fifties, both at number 11: he scored 68 against [Surrey](/source/Surrey_County_Cricket_Club) in June, then followed it up in September with 75 against [Middlesex](/source/Middlesex_County_Cricket_Club).
In 2000 he returned to Hampshire, where he had begun his career in England, and he and [Shane Warne](/source/Shane_Warne) carried the county's bowling attack almost by themselves in a difficult season for the club; that August he recorded his best bowling figures of 9–93 against [Derbyshire](/source/Derbyshire_County_Cricket_Club) (following up with 5–95 in the second innings for match figures of 14–188), although the game was drawn.
Mullally continued to be a regular pick in the Hampshire side for the next few years, [averaging](/source/bowling_average) under 20 with the ball in both 2000 and 2001, and claiming five-wicket hauls on six occasions in the latter season, but from 2003 onwards his performances began to fall away, especially in first-class cricket in which he took only 35 wickets in 2003 and 2004 combined. His county persevered with him for some while, and in 2004 he took 22 List A wickets, but the award of a [benefit season](/source/benefit_season) in 2005 could not disguise his decline and after a friendly against [Kent](/source/Kent_County_Cricket_Club) and three [totesport League](/source/National_League_(cricket)) matches in April and May, he dropped out of the first team entirely. At the end of the 2005 season he announced his retirement.[[http://content-uk.cricinfo.com/england/content/player/17121.html Player Profile], Cricinfo, Retrieved on 17 May 2009]
==International career==
In 1996 also, he was selected by [England](/source/English_cricket_team) for the first [Test](/source/Test_cricket) against [India](/source/Indian_cricket_team) at [Edgbaston](/source/Edgbaston_Cricket_Ground). He took five wickets in the match as England won by eight wickets, and played in all six Tests that summer against India and [Pakistan](/source/Pakistani_cricket_team), as well as in three [One Day International](/source/One_Day_International)s against the latter opponents. It was to be in ODIs where Mullally was to make his mark as an England cricketer, not so much for his penetration as for his accuracy: his economy rate was so good that at one time he was listed as the second-best bowler in the world in that form of the game.
Mullally was in and out of the Test side from then on, his best period being 1998/99, when he took 12 Australian wickets in four [Ashes](/source/The_Ashes) Tests [at 30.33](/source/bowling_average), including his career-best 5–105 at [Brisbane Cricket Ground](/source/Brisbane_Cricket_Ground), and the following home series against New Zealand, when he claimed 11 wickets at 27.27 from three games. In limited-overs cricket, however, he was still considered a central part of the team, and he took 10 wickets at just 17.60 in the [1999 World Cup](/source/1999_cricket_World_Cup), second in England's averages (just behind [Darren Gough](/source/Darren_Gough)) and with the best economy rate of any English bowler in the competition.
In June 2001 he played his final ODI against Australia at [The Oval](/source/The_Oval), and conceded 27 runs from his four overs as England were crushed by eight wickets, and also his last Test against the same opponents at [Headingley](/source/Headingley_Cricket_Ground) when recalled for a single time in August, having played his previous Test match against [South Africa](/source/South_African_cricket_team) in January 2000.
Mullally was a poor batsman, and more often than not occupied the No. 11 position in the England batting line-up. However, he struck an aggressive 16 off 15 balls, including 3 cross-batted fours off [Glenn McGrath](/source/Glenn_McGrath), to help England to a 12-run win against Australia at Melbourne in 1998/99.[[http://content-uk.cricinfo.com/ci/content/story/276556.html Long live the tail], Cricinfo, Retrieved on 17 May 2009] His highest Test score of 24 against Pakistan featured several airborne boundaries off [Wasim Akram](/source/Wasim_Akram). Allegedly the then England coach [David Lloyd](/source/David_Lloyd_(cricketer)) had offered Mullally 30 pints of Guinness to score 30 in that match.[[https://www.espncricinfo.com/wisdencricketer/content/story/303300.html The Jack of all rabbits], Cricinfo, Retrieved on 14 August 2020]
==References==
{{Reflist}}
==External links==
* {{ESPNcricinfo|id=17121}}
{{England Squad 1999 Cricket World Cup}}
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