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Andy Flower
Andrew Flower OBE (born 28 April 1968) is a
Zimbabwean cricket coach and a former Andy Flower

cricketer. As a cricketer, he captained the OBE


Zimbabwe national cricket team. He was
Zimbabwe's wicket-keeper for more than 10
years and is, statistically, the greatest batsman
the country has produced. During his peak from
October to December 2001, Flower was ranked
as the best Test batsman in the world. He was
widely acknowledged as the only Zimbabwe
batsman of proper test quality in any conditions.
After retirement, he served as the coach of the
English cricket team from 2009 to 2014. Flower
became the second foreign coach in the team's
history. Currently, he is the Head Coach of
Lucknow Super Giants in Indian Premier
League. He also works as the head coach of the Personal information
Multan Sultans and St Lucia Kings.[1][2] Full name Andrew Flower

Under his tenure, Flower led the Multan Sultans Born 28 April 1968

to their first-ever playoffs in the 2020 season. Cape Town, Cape


The Sultans finished first in the league stage but Province, South Africa
ultimately lost in the preliminaries. Similarly, he Nickname Petals; Flower Power
led the Zouks to their first-ever finals (along with brother Grant)
appearance in the CPL. Flower served as
assistant coach to Kings XI Punjab(now Punjab Height 5 ft 10 in (1.78 m)
Kings) for IPL 2020 and 2021 before joining Batting Left-handed
Lucknow Super Giants as the head coach.[3] In Bowling Right-arm off break
June 2021, he was inducted to the ICC Cricket
Hall of Fame and became the first ever Role Wicket-keeper
Zimbabwean to be inducted into ICC Hall of International information
Fame.[4][5] National side Zimbabwe (1992–2003)
Test debut (cap 6) 18 October 1992 v India

Contents Last Test 16 November


2002 v Pakistan
Playing career ODI debut (cap 20) 23 February 1992 v Sri
Black armband
Lanka
Coaching career Last ODI 15 March 2003 v Sri
Charity Lanka
Personal life ODI shirt no. 33
References Domestic team information
Years Team
1993/94–2002/03 Mashonaland
Playing career 2002–2006 Essex
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