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Full name Christopher Robert Taylor
Born February 21, 1981, Leeds, Yorkshire
Current age 27 years 275 days
Major teams Derbyshire,Yorkshire
Nickname CT
Batting style Right-hand bat
Bowling style Right-arm fast-medium
Height
6 ft 4 in
Education Benton Park High School, Leeds
Batting and fielding averages
Mat
Inns
NO
Runs
HS
Ave
BF
SR
100
50
4s
6s
Ct
St
First-class
39
65
3
1615
121
26.04
3799
42.51
3
8
23
0
List A
22
21
5
738
111*
46.12
1053
70.08
2
2
7
0
Twenty20
16
14
7
157
28*
22.42
174
90.22
0
0
6
1
4
0
Bowling averages
Mat
Inns
Balls
Runs
Wkts
BBI
BBM
Ave
Econ
SR
4w
5w
10
First-class
39
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
List A
22
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
Twenty20
16
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
Career statistics
First-class debut
2001
Last First-class
Lancashire v Yorkshire at Manchester, Aug 12-15, 2008 scorecard
List A debut
2003
Last List A
Derbyshire v Yorkshire at Derby, Aug 21, 2008 scorecard
Twenty20 debut
Derbyshire v Lancashire at Derby, Jun 27, 2006 scorecard
Last Twenty20
Yorkshire v Lancashire at Leeds, Jun 18, 2008 scorecard
Profile
Chris Taylor made his first-class debut for Yorkshire in 2001, having come through the county's youth set-up. Taylor is a tall opening batsman whose maiden first-class half-century, against Surrey in 2002, took 195 minutes. He represented England Under-17 and Under-19 and was named as the Yorkshire CCC Supporters' Club Young Player of the Year in 1999.
He played in three matches in Yorkshire's Championship-winning season of 2001, but found opportunities limited and left for Derbyshire in 2005 to further his ambitions, despite having been offered a new contract at Headingley. At the County Ground Taylor enjoyed a decent first full season in the Championship in 2006 scoring close to a thousand first-class runs with three centuries, but it was on the one-day field that he really shone, as he finished second in the national one-day averages with 564 runs at 62.66.
Fittingly he scored a century on one-day debut for Derbyshire against his old county at Headingley, and in doing so became the first player in the county's history to score a hundred on first-class and one-day debut. That year he was named Derbyshire's one-day Player-of-the-Year and finished second in the overall Player-of-the-Year award, as well as being named the supporters Player-of-the-Year, which capped a fine season and fully justified his decision to move south. Derbyshire were quick to recognise these achievements and offered him an improved two-year contract in September 2006. In the same month, he founded his own academy - the Pro Cricket Coaching Academy to provide coaching across the Midlands and northern England.
However, contrary to the high hopes he had raised, exactly a year down the line, Taylor asked to be released from his contract with immediate effect and he re-joined Yorkshire on a three-year contract from March 2008.
Sam Collins January 2008
