James Cullum Tredwell (born 27 February 1982) is an English former international
cricket
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er. A left-handed batsman and a right-arm
off break
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bowler, he played his domestic cricket for
Kent County Cricket Club
Kent County Cricket Club is one of the eighteen first-class county clubs within the domestic cricket structure of England and Wales. It represents the historic county of Kent. A club representing the county was first founded in 1842 but Ke ...
and was appointed as County Captain for the 2013 season. He made his debut for Kent in the 2001 season, nine days before his first appearance for
England Under-19s. He often fielded at slip.
He was part of the one-day set-up for Kent since 2002, but did not secure a regular place in the
first-class County Championship
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team until 2007, a year after taking his maiden
ten-wicket haul
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Taking ten wickets in a match at Lord's earns the bowle ...
. He was selected as part of the England
One Day International
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(ODI) squad to tour
New Zealand in 2007–08, but had to wait until 2010 to make his international debut.
After impressing during the 2009 season with Kent, helping the team gain promotion back to the first division of the County Championship, Tredwell played his first
Test
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and ODIs against
Bangladesh in March 2010. His
Twenty20 International
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debut followed two years later. He took 78 wickets in 74 international matches.
In September 2018, Tredwell announced his retirement from cricket having been injured for the entire
2018 domestic season after making five appearances in Kent's pre-season campaign in the West Indies
2017–18 Regional Super50 competition. In 2019 he was appointed to the
ECB National
Umpires Panel, qualifying him to stand as an umpire in Second XI and Minor Counties fixtures.
[Cox hits 135 in Second XI win]
Kent County Cricket Club
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, 8 May 2019. Retrieved 8 May 2019.
Early career
Tredwell was born in
Ashford, Kent
Ashford is a town in the county of Kent, England. It lies on the River Stour, Kent, River Great Stour at the southern or Escarpment, scarp edge of the North Downs, about southeast of central London and northwest of Folkestone by road. In the ...
and was educated at
Southlands Community Comprehensive School in
New Romney
New Romney is a market town in Kent, England, on the edge of Romney Marsh, an area of flat, rich agricultural land reclaimed from the sea after the harbour began to silt up. New Romney, one of the original Cinque Ports, was once a sea port, w ...
.
['Men's squad 2017' in ''Kent County Cricket Club Annual 2017'', p.29.] His father, John, played over 1,000 times for
Folkestone F.C.
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and coached his son at Folkestone Cricket Club.
[Stokes M (17 November 2017]
Kent cricketers to don football boots to play in memorial match for former Folkestone FC legend John Tredwell
''Kent Online
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''. Retrieved 2017-11-17. Tredwell has continued to play cricket for Folkestone in the
Kent Cricket League
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The league was founded in 1970 and the first season of play was 1971. The twelve founding clubs were Ashford, Aylesford Paper Mills, Dart ...
.
He made three appearances in youth Test matches for
England Under-19 cricket team
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against the
West Indies
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in August
2001
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. He made his debut in the first Test at
Grace Road
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History
Leicestershire ...
,
Leicester
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, alongside future Test cricketers
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and
Matt Prior
Matthew James Prior (born 26 February 1982) is a South African-born English former cricketer, who played for England in Test cricket and for Sussex County Cricket Club in domestic cricket. He was a wicket-keeper and his aggressive right-handed ...
. He claimed six wickets during the series, at an average of 32.50.
He was offered a contract with
Kent County Cricket Club
Kent County Cricket Club is one of the eighteen first-class county clubs within the domestic cricket structure of England and Wales. It represents the historic county of Kent. A club representing the county was first founded in 1842 but Ke ...
in 2001 after playing for the youth team. He was one of 14 players who were selected for the
ECB National Academy
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in
Loughborough
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in 2003–04, and the subsequent tours of Malaysia and India.
County cricket
He made his first
List A
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appearance for Kent Cricket Board against Worcestershire Cricket Board in the first round of the
2000 NatWest Trophy
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, when he was
run out
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A run out usually occurs when the batsmen are attempting to run between the wickets, and the fielding team succeed in getting the ball to one wicket befo ...
for ten and took one wicket. He also appeared in the subsequent two rounds of the competition, until Hampshire knocked them out in the third round.
He spent the remainder of the 2000 season playing for Kent Second XI. He once again appeared in the first three rounds of the renamed
2001 Cheltenham & Gloucester Trophy
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, scoring 71
opening
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against
Buckinghamshire
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in the second round, and 57 from the same position in the third round defeat to
Warwickshire
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. His first-class debut for Kent came later in the same season, against
Leicestershire
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in July 2001, claiming the wicket of
Aftab Habib
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Habib was formerly the Hong Kong national coach, having been appointed on a three-year contract, including Hong Kong's appearance in the 2008 Asia Cup in Pakista ...
as his first scalp in a match that Kent won by three wickets at Grace Road.
His one-day debut for Kent County Cricket Club came in the 2002
Benson & Hedges Cup
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It was the third major one-day competition established in Englan ...
, where in a rain-reduced match, he claimed the wicket of
Owais Shah
Owais Alam Shah (born 22 October 1978) is a former England cricketer. A middle-order Batting (cricket), batsman, he played for Middlesex County Cricket Club, Middlesex from 1995 to 2010 and Essex County Cricket Club, Essex from 2011 to 2013 b ...
as he finished with one wicket for 26 runs. He made 19 List A appearances for Kent in 2002, finishing the season with 21 wickets at an average of 23.76.
He played just two
County Championship
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games in 2005, but played extensively in the one-day game, earning an extension to his contract. He became more involved with the Championship side in 2007, scoring his maiden first-class century (116*) against
Yorkshire
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, and returning then career-best bowling figures of 6/47 against
Surrey
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.
He was part of the side that won the
2007 Twenty20 Cup
The 2007 Twenty20 Cup was the fifth edition of the Twenty20 Cup tournament, which ran between 22 June and 4 August 2007, and saw the Kent Spitfires win the tournament for the first time, defeating Gloucestershire Gladiators in the final by 4 wi ...
, beating
Gloucestershire
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in the final.
At the end of the 2008 season, Kent were relegated from the first division of the County Championship, and they spent one season in the second division, achieving promotion at the end of the 2009 season by winning the second division title. During their promotion winning season, Tredwell took his career-best bowling figures, claiming 8/66 in a match against
Glamorgan
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, a performance that gave him the leading bowling figures in the County Championship's second division. He finished the 2009 season with 69 first-class wickets at an average of 26.63; the first season in which he had taken more than 40 wickets or more than one
five-wicket haul
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Takin ...
. He was also the second-highest wicket taker in the division behind leg-spinner
Danish Kaneria
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(75).
Tredwell was named as captain of Kent for the 2013 season, replacing
Robert Key. During his captaincy, Tredwell was called up to play for England in the
Champions Trophy and then the one-day series against
New Zealand
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and later against
Australia
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. He found juggling both the Kent captaincy and his international commitments difficult and, as a result he resigned the captaincy to be replaced by the returning Key in November 2013.
In March 2016 Tredwell was selected to represent the
Marylebone Cricket Club
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(MCC) in the Champion County match against
Yorkshire
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in Abu Dhabi. He took six wickets in the match, bowling 65 overs in the match.
[Spinners enjoy profitable day in Abu Dhabi]
CricInfo
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, 2016-03-22. Retrieved 2016-03-23.
International career
Tredwell's performances during the
2007 domestic season and with the Performance Squad in India over the winter of 2007–08, led to his first call-up to the England
One Day International
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(ODI) squad in January 2008 for a series of matches against New Zealand. He did not play in any of the matches on the tour and was not called up again by England until December 2009 when a series of injuries in the England senior squad
on tour in South Africa prompted his call-up to
England's squad. Coach
Andy Flower
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described him as a "like for like" replacement for
Graeme Swann
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in case Swann's side injury worsened. Once again he did not play a game as England won the ODI series 2–1.
Tredwell finally made his debut for England against Bangladesh in an ODI in March 2010, finishing with figures of 0/52 from 10 overs. He made his Test match debut in the
second Test against Bangladesh, taking six wickets on debut as well as scoring 37 runs in England's first innings. Tredwell played his first match for England on home soil in the return series, taking 0/18 at
Trent Bridge
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.
World Cup and Champions Trophy, 2011–2013
After touring Australia in 2010–11, Tredwell played in two matches during England's
2011 World Cup campaign, winning the Player of the Match award in the teams' final group match against
West Indies
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, with bowling figures of 4/48.
The 2012 season saw him play in home matches against Australia and South Africa before touring India later in the year, making his
Twenty20 International
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debut on the tour.
By the start of 2013 Tredwell had established himself as a key part of England's limited overs team and he played in all five matches against India, taking his best ODI figures of 4/44 during the tour. He played in all three T20I matches on England's tour of New Zealand. He went into the
2013 Champions Trophy as England's main spin bowler, playing in four of the team's five matches. He took 3/19 in the semi-final against South Africa and played in the rain-affected final against India, taking 1/25 as England narrowly lost by five runs.
More games followed: Tredwell played T20Is against New Zealand, captioning the side in one match which was rained off after two balls, and played ODIs against Ireland and four of the five ODIs against Australia later in the season before touring Australia over the 2013–14 northern winter and then being selected for the limited overs tour of the West Indies, in preparation for the T20 World Cup.
T20 World Cup, 2014
After being selected again in England's squad for the
T20 World Cup
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, Tredwell played in all four of England's group matches. The side failed to advance out of the group and was beaten by the Netherlands in their final match of the tournament.
Further international opportunities followed throughout 2014, with matches against Scotland, Sri Lanka and India at home before being selected for the tour of Sri Lanka later in the year, playing in 15 ODIs and nine T20Is during the year.
World Cup and final matches, 2015
Despite being selected in the squad for a Tri-series tournament against India and Australia in early 2015, Tredwell did not play as
Moeen Ali
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was chosen ahead of him as England's spin option. He was selected for the
2015 World Cup squad but only played in England's final game of the tournament against Afghanistan as the team again failed to advance out of the group stage. Tredwell took figures of 1/25 in what was his final ODI.
Tredwell's final international match came in April 2015. An injury to Moeen meant that he was chosen in the Test squad to tour the West Indies and was selected for the first Test of the series. He took 4/47 in the first innings of the match and one wicket in West Indies' second innings in what was his second and final Test appearance.
References
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1982 births
Living people
English cricketers
England Test cricketers
England One Day International cricketers
England Twenty20 International cricketers
Kent Cricket Board cricketers
Kent cricketers
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Marylebone Cricket Club cricketers
People from Ashford, Kent
Cricketers at the 2011 Cricket World Cup
Cricketers at the 2015 Cricket World Cup
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