Kiwi Jamie How signs on at Shap Road
Shap Road
is the new home for Kiwi Jamie
How |
KENDAL Cricket Club have signed New Zealand
batsman Jamie How as their new professional for the 2011
season in the Furness Building Society Northern Premier League
incorporating Readers Cricket Balls.
How, who captains Central Districts in his home
country, has played 19 Test matches and 35 one-day
internationals and has a top Test score of 92 made against
England at Hamilton in March 2008.
His highest one-day international score of 139
also came against England on the same tour in a tied match at
Napier.
He has scored 772 Test runs at an average of
22.70 and in all first-class cricket has scored 5,651 runs at
an average of 35.99 including 13 centuries.
29-year-old How, a right-handed batsman who is
also an occasional right medium or off-break bowler was born
in New Plymouth and becomes Kendal's second Kiwi professional
following in the footsteps of Graeme Aldridge in 2007.
How has previous experience of playing league
cricket in England with a short spell for Walsall of the
Birmingham Premier League in the 2003 season.
He replaces South African Ross McMillan who left
the club after three successful seasons at the end of the 2010
campaign. McMillan has been in prolific form in his native
South Africa since his return home and has scored three
centuries for South West Districts in five games, also
captaining the side.
McMillan captained Kendal in 2009 and 2010 and
so the club will be on the look-out for a new first-team
captain in 2011.
