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Full name Dominic Gerald Cork
Born August 7, 1971, Newcastle-under-Lyme, Staffordshire
Current age 37 years 67 days
Major teams England,Derbyshire,Hampshire,Lancashire
Nickname Corky
Batting style Right-hand bat
Bowling style Right-arm fast-medium
Height
6 ft 2 in
Education St Joseph's College, Stoke-on-Trent; Newcastle College
Batting and fielding averages
Mat
Inns
NO
Runs
HS
Ave
BF
SR
100
50
4s
6s
Ct
St
Tests
37
56
8
864
59
18.00
2092
41.30
0
3
111
4
18
0
ODIs
32
21
3
180
31*
10.00
271
66.42
0
0
13
1
6
0
First-class
286
418
55
9127
200*
25.14
8
50
205
0
List A
281
219
32
3995
93
21.36
0
19
105
0
Twenty20
37
30
6
304
28
12.66
267
113.85
0
0
31
10
8
0
Bowling averages
Mat
Inns
Balls
Runs
Wkts
BBI
BBM
Ave
Econ
SR
4w
5w
10
Tests
37
62
7678
3906
131
7/43
9/162
29.81
3.05
58.6
9
5
0
ODIs
32
32
1772
1368
41
3/27
3/27
33.36
4.63
43.2
0
0
0
First-class
286
48483
23829
895
9/43
26.62
2.94
54.1
32
5
List A
281
13358
9452
343
6/21
6/21
27.55
4.24
38.9
10
4
0
Twenty20
37
31
582
698
30
4/16
4/16
23.26
7.19
19.4
1
0
0
Career statistics
Test debut
England v West Indies at Lord's, Jun 22-26, 1995 scorecard
Last Test
England v India at The Oval, Sep 5-9, 2002 scorecard
Test statistics
ODI debut
England v Pakistan at Manchester, Aug 24, 1992 scorecard
Last ODI
England v India at Colombo (RPS), Sep 22, 2002 scorecard
ODI statistics
First-class debut
1990
Last First-class
Durham v Lancashire at Chester-le-Street, Sep 3-6, 2008 scorecard
List A debut
1991
Last List A
Warwickshire v Lancashire at Birmingham, Sep 1, 2007 scorecard
Twenty20 debut
Yorkshire v Derbyshire at Leeds, Jun 14, 2003 scorecard
Last Twenty20
Middlesex v Lancashire at The Oval, Jul 8, 2008 scorecard
Profile
Dominic Cork, desperate to keep up with his two elder cricket-playing brothers, grew up to be a showman. The bigger the stage, the better he has performed - provided the stage is in England, for he has had little success abroad except in South Africa in 1995-96. Since then he has lost the sting in his outswinger and become a seam-and-swing bowler for English conditions, bowling wicket to wicket, and launching into well-choreographed appeals for LBW. On the biggest stage in England, at Lord's, Cork took his best Test bowling figures of 7 for 43 in 1995, and played his most famous innings, in 2000, on both occasions against West Indies. His strength was his ability to move the ball late, although he suffered when he tried to bowl too fast, while his batting always promised more than it delivered. The great promise he showed in those two series against West Indies was undermined by injury and off-the-field personal problems which prevented him ever becoming a fixture in the side. There were also accusations that he didn't always try as hard as he might - Geoff Boycott described him as a "show pony" during the 1996-97 tour of New Zealand. He was handed the captaincy of Derbyshire in 1999, and while he initially responded to a far from easy task with enthusiasm, reports of disharmony began to emerge and Cork appeared increasingly at odds with the management It culminated in Cork buying his way out of his contract at the end of the 2003 season, and he subsequently joined Lancashire. Although he tried hard, he failed to really hit the heights expected of him during his first season at his new county, but played a vital role in Lancashire's promotion back to division one in 2005 with 43 wickets and 540 runs. He was never far away from the action during Lancashire's push for trophies and was involved in two near misses. The first came against Sussex in the 2006 C&G final and he was last-man out as Lancashire nearly pulled off an extraordinary run chase at the end of the 2007 Championship campaign. Despite being a regular in the four-day team he was released before the end of the season and found a new home at Hampshire. Cricinfo staff October 2008
