Graham Onions

Graham Onions is an English cricketer. He plays for Durham and England as a right arm fastmedium bowler and a righthand tailend batsman. After a successful start to the 2009 cricket season, Onions was selected to face the West Indies in Test cricket, and following success in the series, was retained for the 2009 Ashes series. In April 2010 Wisden Cricketers Almanack named him as one of its five cricketers of the year for 2009. A back injury in March 2010 prevented Onions from playing cricket until 2011. He returned to competitive cricket that season, taking 50160wickets in the County Championship, and towards the end of the year was called up to Englands Test squad.

Graham was born onSeptember 1982 to Richard and Maureen Onions. He has an older sister Christine. Onions attended St Thomas More Catholic School in Blaydon, and at Gateshead leisure centre he took the opportunity to try a variety of sports. He was adept at badminton and was selected for the England team at under15 level. From playing his early cricket on the streets, Onions became part of Gateshead Fell Cricket Club.

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