Terry Alderman

Terence Michael Alderman (born 12 June 1956) is a former Australian international cricketer who played primarily as a right-arm fast-medium bowler.

Alderman represented Western Australia at a schoolboys' carnival in Melbourne in 1972-73 and was chosen in the Australian schoolboys team to play a governors eleven.

In 1973-74 Alderman played for WA Colts in Melbourne and Adelaide.

He took six wickets in a game in Melbourne.

He began his first-class cricket career during the 1974–75 eason with Western Australia in the Sheffield Shield and came to international prominence when he was chosen for the Australian national team to tour England in 1981.

He was a poor batsman, passing fifty just once in his career and averaging barely eight in first-class cricket.

He made his first-class debut in 1974/75.

In his first game, a Gillette Cup match, Ian Chappell took 24 runs off his second over.

He was twelfth man for two Sheffield Shield games against South Australia and Victoria before being picked against New South Wales in Sydney.

He took 5/63 but pulled a hamstring and had to return home.

In total he took 18 first-class wickets that summer at an average of 28.

The following summer he took 17 wickets at 26 and in 1976/77 he only took 8 wickets at 17.

During World Series Cricket, Alderman took 28 wickets at 21 during the 1977/78 summer.

The following season he took 26 wickets at 18.69, but was overlooked for national selection.

Alderman had his best season in 1979/80 taking 42 wickets at 28.09 before going to play for Watsonians in Scotland in the northern summer of 1980.

In 1980-81 he took 32 wickets at 26, a performance which earned him selection on the 1981 Ashes tour.

Alderman had a superb Ashes series.

He was picked in the first Test and took 4/68 and 5/62, helping bowl Australia to victory.

He found things harder going in the second, with 1-79 and 1-42, a game that ended in a draw.

In the third Test Alderman took 3/59 in the first innings; England followed on, and Alderman helped reduce England to 7–135 with 4 wickets and two catches.

Ian Botham counter-attacked and Alderman's final figures were 6/135 - Australia collapsed chasing and lost the game.

In the fourth Test Alderman bowled beautifully for figures of 5/42 and 3/65 but Australia's batsman collapsed again and lost the game.

Australia lost the fifth Test, Alderman taking 4/88 and 5/109.

In the sixth drawn Test Alderman took 3/84 and 2/60.

He had taken 42 wickets in the Test series at 51 first-class wickets on tour at 20.86.

Alderman was picked as one of Wisden's five cricketers of the year.

Alderman kept in the Australian side the following summer.

In the 1981 Ashes series he took 42 Test wickets, including nine on debut, the biggest haul in a series since Jim Laker's 46 in 1956 and the fourth-highest total of all time.

Alderman's 42 wickets is the record for the most wickets taken in a series without taking 10 wickets in a match.

He was named as a Wisden Cricketer of the Year in the Almanack's 1982 edition.

He had three seasons in English county cricket, playing with Kent County Cricket Club in 1984 and 1986 and with Gloucestershire County Cricket Club in 1988.

Alderman took part in an unofficial Australian tour of South Africa in 1985–86 and 1986–87, when that country was banned from Test cricket as a Commonwealth anti-apartheid sanction.

As a result, he received a three-year ban from international cricket which disqualified him from playing in the 1985 Ashes series in England.

Following his suspension, Alderman returned to the Australian side and resumed his success against England, taking 41 wickets in the 1989 Ashes series and another 16 in the 1990–91 series, his final Ashes appearance.

He rarely enjoyed similar success against other countries.

His final Test series was against the West Indies in 1990–91, where he ended his career with 170 Test wickets.

Alderman was born at Subiaco, Western Australia, the fourth of five children.

His father, William, represented Western Australia in Australian Rules Football and opened the batting and bowling for Western Australia Colts without ever playing first-class cricket.

Alderman studied at Aquinas College in Perth, playing both football and cricket.

He bowled in his high school team's first eleven from his third year at high school onwards and was coached by Bert Rigg during his last two years.