Everything about Stuart Law totally explained
Stuart Grant Law OAM (born
18 October 1968 in
Herston,
Brisbane,
Queensland) is an
Australian
cricketer, although he now has
British citizenship and has settled in
England. Theoretically he could now play international cricket for
England, but because of his age and the current England squad already being well-established, is unlikely to do so. He was awarded the
Medal of the Order of Australia in January 2007.
After a couple of seasons with the Australian youth team, Law made his
first-class debut for
Queensland in the
1988/
89 Sheffield Shield, scoring 179 in only his second match. In
1990/
91 he'd a superb season,
averaging over 75 with the bat and piling up more than 1,200 runs. Law captained Queensland to four
Pura Cup titles and two one day trophies, making him the most successful captain in Australian domestic cricket; he's also Queensland’s all time leading run scorer in first class cricket.
Law made his
Australia debut in a
One Day International in
1994/
95, and captained Young Australia in England the following summer. In
1995/
96 he played his first and only
Test match in place of the injured
Steve Waugh, making an unbeaten half-century, and subsequently being dropped upon Waugh's recovery. It was a different story in one-day cricket, and he played more than fifty times for his country in that form of the game. He was a solid middle-order batsmen, and he occasionally contributed with some handy right-arm leg spin bowling.
1996 saw Law make his English
County Championship bow, with
Essex, and such was his success in England that he averaged over 55 in all but one of his six seasons at the county, making his career-best score of 263 in
1999. However, disagreements within the club led him to leave for
Lancashire for
2002. Apart from an enforced absence through injury for part of the
2004 season, Law has continued to pile up the runs for his new team, scoring 1,820 in
2003 at an exceptional average of 91, and after hitting 1,277 championship runs in
2007, signed a new one-year deal with the club. Following
Mark Chilton's resignation as captain at the end of the 2007 season, Law was appointed Lancashire captain ahead of players such as
Dominic Cork,
Glen Chapple and
Luke Sutton.
Law was selected as one of the five
Wisden Cricketers of the Year in
1998.
Law will represent the
Chennai Superstars in the
Indian Cricket League as their captain.
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