...a poor showing in the first Test in New Zealand earlier this year, was one of several seasoned bowlers overlooked when Ryan Sidebottom became doubtful with a back strain. Instead the selectors opted to hand a debut to Australia-raised but Grimsby-born...
...of county cricket obscurity for a shock international debut at the Yorkshireman's Headingley home ground here Friday. With Ryan Sidebottom out with a back strain, England's selectors ignored the claims of Hoggard and fellow 2005 Ashes-winning quicks...
...Sidebottom is in danger of missing Friday's second Test because of a bad back sustained by sleeping on unfamiliar mattresses, the England camp revealed yesterday. The nature of Sidebottom's injury will no doubt provoke a few humorous comments, and even a...
...Sidebottom has been troubled by a stiff back. Photograph: Gareth Copley/PA England must break the trend of five successive Lord's Test stalemates today if they are to overcome redoubtable South African resistance in the first Test. South Africa, who...
Background
Ryan Jay Sidebottom (born January 15, 1978 in Huddersfield) is an English cricketer who plays international cricket for England and domestic cricket for Nottinghamshire. He is a primarily a left-arm fast-medium bowler. Sidebottom played his first Test match in 2001 against Pakistan, but failed to take a wicket and was dropped for six years. In 2007 he was brought back into the side following an injury to Matthew Hoggard and took four wickets in his first innings. Since then he has become a prolific bowler for England. He took the 37th Test cricket hat-trick in his 11th match for England against New Zealand, becoming the 11th English player to do so, on March 8, 2008, and on March 23 he took his third five-wicket haul in the same series, breaking the previous record for an Englishman in New Zealand. His father, Arnie Sidebottom, was also a cricketer, and played one Test match for England in 1985 against Australia.
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