Nasser Hussain
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"Nasser Hussain" Order of the British Empire/OBE is a former cricketer who played for Essex County Cricket Club/Essex and England cricket team/England between 1987 and 2004. A pugnacious right-handed batsman, Hussain scored over 30,000 runs from more than 650 matches across all First-class cricket/first-class and List A cricket/List-A cricket, including 62 centuries. His highest Test score of 207, scored in the first Test of the Australian cricket team in England in 1997/1997 Ashes at Edgbaston Cricket Ground/Edgbaston, was described by Wisden Cricketers' Almanack/Wisden as "touched by genius". He played 96 Test matches and 88 One Day International games in total.

Born in Chennai/Madras in India, Hussain was led into cricket by his father, and his family moved to England when Hussain was a young child. He joined Essex in 1987 after developing from a Spin bowling/spin bowler to batsman while at school and playing for the various Essex youth teams, as the leg-spin of his youth deserted him. He was selected for England initially on the back of 990 runs scored for Essex in the County Championship of 1989, though injury and poor form would limit his international caps during the early 1990s to three Tests of a 1990 West Indies tour, and four further matches in 1993. Only in 1996 did he become a regular England Test cricketer.

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