Nasser Hussain

Nasser Hussain OBE is a former English cricketer who captained the England cricket team between 1999 and 2003, with his overall international career extending from 1990 to 2004. A pugnacious righthanded batsman, Hussain scored over 30,000 runs from more than 650 matches across all firstclass and ListA cricket, including 62 centuries. His highest Test score of 207, scored in the first Test of the 1997 Ashes at Edgbaston, was described by Wisden as touched by genius. He played 96 Test matches and 88 One Day International games in total.

Hussain was born in Madras, India. His father, Raza Jawad Hussain, was Indian and a keen cricketer, his mother was Anglo Indian. As a child, Nassers first experiences of cricket were family visits to Chepauk, where his older brothers Mehriyar Mel Hussain who would go on to play briefly for Worcestershire and Abbas used to bat on the outfield while he chased after the ball. His father moved the family to England in 1975. Hussain recalled in his 2005 autobiography that the family gave up a prosperous life in India where the family were comfortable in order to obtain for the children the benefits of the English educational system. The family moved to Ilford, and Hussain later took charge of the indoor cricket school in Ilford where he used to bowl for hours on end at his elder brothers. He was a talented legspin bowler, and with his ability starting to show, at just eight years old, Hussain was selected to play for the Essex Under11s, and atyears old and was the youngest to play f

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