Nasser Hussain

Nasser Hussain, born on 28 March 1968, is an English cricket commentator and former player who captained the England cricket team between 1999 and 2003, with an international career that ran from 1990 to 2004. A pugnacious right-handed batsman, he scored over 30,000 runs in more than 650 first-class and List A matches, including 62 centuries. His highest Test score of 207, made in the first Test of the 1997 Ashes at Edgbaston, was described by Wisden as touched by genius. He played 96 Tests and 88 One Day Internationals, scoring 5,764 Test runs and taking 67 catches, fielding mostly at second slip and gully. Born in Madras, he moved to England as a young child and joined Essex in 1987. He captained England in both Tests and one-day internationals until after the 2003 Cricket World Cup, when England failed to reach the second round after boycotting their match against Zimbabwe in Harare over security concerns.