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{{Short description|English cricketer (born 1965)}}
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{{Infobox cricketer
|                name = Angus Fraser
|               image = 
|             country = England
|            fullname = Angus Robert Charles Fraser
|            nickname = Gus, Gnat
|          birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1965|8|8|df=yes}}
|         birth_place = [[Higher End|Billinge Higher End]], [[Lancashire]], [[England]] 
|            heightft = 6
|          heightinch = 6
|             bowling = Right arm fast-medium
|             batting = Right-handed
|                role = [[Bowler (cricket)|Bowler]]
|              family = [[Alastair Fraser]] (brother)
|       international = true
|   internationalspan = 1989–1999
|       testdebutdate = 6 July
|       testdebutyear = 1989
|    testdebutagainst = Australia
|             testcap = 537
|        lasttestdate = 26 December
|        lasttestyear = 1998
|     lasttestagainst = Australia
|        odidebutdate = 15 October
|        odidebutyear = 1989
|     odidebutagainst = Sri Lanka
|              odicap = 103
|         lastodidate = 29 May
|         lastodiyear = 1999
|      lastodiagainst = India
|               club1 = [[Middlesex County Cricket Club|Middlesex]]
|               year1 = {{nowrap|1984–2002}}
|               club2 = [[Wellington cricket team|Wellington]]
|               year2 = 1987/88
|             columns = 4
|             column1 = [[Test cricket|Test]]
|            matches1 = 46
|               runs1 = 388
|            bat avg1 = 7.46
|           100s/50s1 = 0/0
|          top score1 = 32
|         deliveries1 = 10,876
|            wickets1 = 177
|           bowl avg1 = 27.32
|            fivefor1 = 13
|             tenfor1 = 2
|       best bowling1 = 8/53
|  catches/stumpings1 = 9/–
|             column2 = [[One Day International|ODI]]
|            matches2 = 42
|               runs2 = 141
|            bat avg2 = 12.81
|           100s/50s2 = 0/0
|          top score2 = 38[[not out|*]]
|         deliveries2 = 2,392
|            wickets2 = 47
|           bowl avg2 = 30.04
|            fivefor2 = 0
|             tenfor2 = 0
|       best bowling2 = 4/22
|  catches/stumpings2 = 5/–
|             column3 = [[First-class cricket|FC]]
|            matches3 = 290
|               runs3 = 2,934
|            bat avg3 = 11.19
|           100s/50s3 = 0/2
|          top score3 = 92
|         deliveries3 = 56,281
|            wickets3 = 886
|           bowl avg3 = 27.40
|            fivefor3 = 36
|             tenfor3 = 5
|       best bowling3 = 8/53
|  catches/stumpings3 = 54/–
|             column4 = [[List A cricket|LA]]
|            matches4 = 336
|               runs4 = 865
|            bat avg4 = 11.68
|           100s/50s4 = 0/0
|          top score4 = 38[[not out|*]]
|         deliveries4 = 17,112
|            wickets4 = 392
|           bowl avg4 = 26.49
|            fivefor4 = 1
|             tenfor4 = 0
|       best bowling4 = 5/32
|  catches/stumpings4 = 56/–
|                date = 11 April
|                year = 2008
|              source = http://content-aus.cricinfo.com/ci/content/player/12909.html Cricinfo
}}
'''Angus Robert Charles Fraser''' {{post-nominals|MBE}} (born 8 August 1965) is an English cricket administrator. 

He served as the [[managing director]] of [[Middlesex County Cricket Club|Middlesex Cricket]] between 2009 and 2021, before assuming a new role heading the club's academy.<ref>[https://www.middlesexccc.com/news/2021/07/middlesex-restructures-cricket-department?s=09 Middlesex restructures cricket department], Middlesex County Cricket Club. Retrieved 6 October 2024.</ref>

He is currently serving as Managing Director of the Middlesex in the Community charity.<ref>[https://www.middlesexccc.com/page/middlesex-in-the-community-team Middlesex in the community team], Middlesex County Cricket Club. Retrieved 6 October 2024.</ref>

He is also a former English [[cricket]]er, journalist and England selector.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/cricket/26153056 |title=Angus Fraser: England selector role for Middlesex chief |website=BBC Sport|publisher=BBC |date=12 February 2014 |access-date=7 August 2014}}</ref>

Fraser played in forty-six [[Test cricket|Test matches]] and forty-two [[One Day Internationals]] for [[England cricket team|England]]. Cricket commentator Colin Bateman commented that Fraser was "a reliable, intelligent and hard-working bowler".<ref name="Cap"/>

==Early life==
Born in [[Higher End|Billinge Higher End]], Lancashire,<ref name="Cap">{{cite book |title=If The Cap Fits |last=Bateman |first=Colin |year=1993 |publisher=Tony Williams Publications |isbn=1-869833-21-X |page=[https://archive.org/details/ifcapfits0000unse/page/70 70] |url=https://archive.org/details/ifcapfits0000unse/page/70 }}</ref> Fraser was educated at the [[Harrow High School|Gayton High School]] in [[Harrow, London]] and Orange Hill High School, Edgware, Greater London.

==Cricket career==
Fraser began his career with Middlesex in 1984, helping them to win the [[County Championship]] in 1985, 1990 and 1993. He also helped Middlesex to win the [[1988 NatWest Trophy]], taking 3–36 in the final,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://static.espncricinfo.com/db/ARCHIVE/1980S/1988/ENG_LOCAL/NWT/KNOCK-OUTS/MIDDX_WORCS_NWT-FINAL_03SEP1988.html|title=Middlesex v Worcestershire at Lord's, 3 September 1988|publisher=[[ESPNCricinfo]]|access-date=22 July 2022}}</ref> and the [[1990 Refuge Assurance Cup]].

He made his [[Test cricket|Test match]] debut with England in 1989 against [[Australia cricket team|Australia]]. In his fourth Test in 1990 he took his first [[five-wicket haul]] in Tests, in the process helping England to their first Test victory over the [[West Indies cricket team|West Indies]] for sixteen years and 30 Tests.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.espncricinfo.com/story/west-indies-v-england-1989-90-152032|title=West Indies v England 1989-90|publisher=[[ESPNCricinfo]]|access-date=22 July 2022}}</ref> However England missed his contributions when he was forced to withdraw from [[English cricket team in West Indies in 1989-90|this series]] with injury, as was the case during [[English cricket team in Australia in 1990-91|the Ashes series the following winter]]. A hip injury then kept him out of Test cricket for two and a half years, but he made an immediate impact on his return at [[the Oval]] in 1993, taking eight wickets as England recorded their first Test victory over Australia for 18 Tests and six and a half years.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.thecricketmonthly.com/story/663565/i-was-there-england-v-australia-sixth-test-the-oval-1993|title=When Atherton's men broke the hoodoo|publisher=[[ESPNCricinfo]]|access-date=22 July 2022}}</ref>
 
Perhaps his finest hour came in the [[Barbados]] Test match of the 1993/94 [[West Indies cricket team|West Indies]] tour when Fraser took 8–75 in the first [[innings]] to help set up a famous victory, West Indies' first defeat at [[Bridgetown, Barbados|Bridgetown]] for over half a century.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.espncricinfo.com/story/west-indies-v-england-1993-94-153212|title=West Indies v England 1993-4|publisher=[[ESPNCricinfo]]|access-date=22 July 2022}}</ref> His career-best [[first-class cricket]] innings bowling figures of 8–53 were taken in a [[Test cricket|Test]] match and against the same opposition, this time at [[Port of Spain]], [[Trinidad and Tobago]], in 1997/98. Despite taking eight wickets in that innings, and Test career best match figures of 11–110, he was not named [[Man of the Match]] which was awarded to [[Carl Hooper]], from the victorious West Indies side.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.espncricinfo.com/series/england-tour-of-west-indies-1997-98-61751/west-indies-vs-england-2nd-test-63784/full-scorecard|title=Full Scorecard of England vs West Indies 2nd test 1997-8|publisher=[[ESPNCricinfo]]|access-date=22 July 2022}}</ref> In all, Fraser toured the West Indies three times, and as of 2022, he has taken more Test wickets in the West Indies than any other visiting bowler.

His [[ODI cricket|one-day international]] highest score of 38 not out was made late in the innings at [[Batting (cricket)|number 10]], which included a massive [[Boundary (cricket)|six]] off [[Steve Waugh]] and almost brought England back from the brink of defeat against [[Australia cricket team|Australia]] during the 1990/91 tour (Australia won by three runs). Another fine moment with the bat was in a last-wicket second-innings stand with [[Robert Croft]] to save the Third Test at [[Old Trafford (cricket)|Old Trafford]] against [[South Africa cricket team|South Africa]] in 1998. According to the recollection of then England coach [[David Lloyd (cricketer)|David Lloyd]], as Fraser went out to face the bowling of [[Allan Donald]], Fraser said :"‘The only way he'll get me out is if he knocks me through all three [stumps].’ I said: 'He probably will, Gus, but good luck'. But he survived. A red-inker it was and in retrospect one of the most important innings of the series".
<ref>{{cite web|title=The Jack of all Rabbits|url=https://www.espncricinfo.com/story/the-jack-of-all-rabbits-303300|publisher=ESPN|access-date=22 Mar 2022}}</ref> Fraser's short innings indeed helped to reverse the momentum in the series, Fraser taking three [[five-wicket haul|fivefers]] in the next two Tests to help England to an unlikely series victory. He also toured [[New Zealand]] and [[South Africa]], and played in one-day tournaments in Asia, representing [[England cricket team|England]]. Throughout his career he used a bat nicknamed the "Gussy Hitter", the blade of which was designed by his mother.

Fraser last played for England during the 1999 [[Cricket world cup]]. Although born in Lancashire, Fraser played all of his [[county cricket]] for [[Middlesex County Cricket Club|Middlesex]] in a first-class career lasting until 2002; he served as [[Captain (cricket)|county captain]] from 2001 until his retirement in 2002.

After that, he worked as the cricket correspondent of ''[[The Independent]]'' newspaper (2002–2009), until his appointment to the newly created role of managing director of Cricket by Middlesex County Cricket Club in January 2009. He is a regular contributor to the [[BBC]]'s ''[[Test Match Special]]'' and a cricket [[pundit (expert)|pundit]] for [[Sky Sports]].

In the 1996 edition of ''[[Wisden Cricketers' Almanack|Wisden]]'', Fraser was one of the [[Wisden Cricketers of the Year]].

Fraser served as the managing  director of cricket at Middlesex County Cricket Club between 2009 and 2021. He assumed a new role in heading the club's academy in July 2021. 
[https://www.middlesexccc.com/news/2021/07/middlesex-restructures-cricket-department?s=09]

He also served as a selector for the [[England cricket team]] for a period after 2014.<ref name="a:1">{{Citation |last=Royle |first=Nick |date=May 3, 2018 |title=Angus Fraser: Ireland players can't have their cake and eat it too |publisher=[[The Sunday Times]] |url=https://www.thetimes.com/world/ireland-world/article/angus-fraser-ireland-players-cant-have-their-cake-and-eat-it-too-0wj6zk8k5 |access-date=December 10, 2020}}</ref><ref name="a:2">{{Citation |date=April 3, 2014 |title=England selector role excites Fraser |publisher=BBC |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/cricket/26856953 |access-date=December 10, 2020}}</ref>

==Personal life==

He now resides in [[Pinner]] with his wife Denise and two children, Alex and Bethan. In 2008, in his first managerial role, Fraser secured the U15 Middlesex Schools Association County Cup with [[The John Lyon School]], where his son was in the squad.

Fraser is a fan of, and regular visitor to, [[Wealdstone F.C.|Wealdstone Football Club]].

==References==
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==External links==
*{{cricinfo|id=12909}}
*[https://archive.today/20130121074340/http://www.debretts.com/people/biographies/browse/f/15759/Angus%20Robert%20Charles+FRASER.aspx Debrett's People of Today]
* [https://www.middlesexccc.com/page/middlesex-in-the-community-team Middlesex in the Community] 

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| title=[[:Category:Middlesex cricket captains|Middlesex County Cricket Captain]]
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| after=[[Andrew Strauss]]
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