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Full name Callum James Ferguson
Born November 21, 1984, North Adelaide, South Australia
Current age 24 years 14 days
Major teams South Australia
Nickname Walt Disney
Batting style Right-hand bat
Bowling style Right-arm medium
Height
1.80 m
Education Black Friars Priory School, Prospect; Marryatville High School, Kensington
Batting and fielding averages
Mat
Inns
NO
Runs
HS
Ave
BF
SR
100
50
4s
6s
Ct
St
First-class
41
77
6
2427
132
34.18
4384
55.36
3
16
19
0
List A
42
40
4
967
101
26.86
1171
82.57
1
6
7
0
Twenty20
10
9
0
96
40
10.66
105
91.42
0
0
11
2
4
0
Bowling averages
Mat
Inns
Balls
Runs
Wkts
BBI
BBM
Ave
Econ
SR
4w
5w
10
First-class
41
42
38
0
-
-
-
5.42
-
0
0
0
List A
42
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
Twenty20
10
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
Career statistics
First-class debut
2004/05
Last First-class
Queensland v South Australia at Brisbane, Nov 28-Dec 1, 2008 scorecard
List A debut
2002/03
Last List A
Queensland v South Australia at Brisbane, Dec 3, 2008 scorecard
Twenty20 debut
Victoria v South Australia at Melbourne, Jan 8, 2006 scorecard
Last Twenty20
South Australia v Victoria at Adelaide, Jan 10, 2008 scorecard
Profile
After an excellent debut season in 2004-05, when he topped South Australia's run tally, Callum Ferguson fell to fourth on the list the next summer and sixth in 2006-07. But he was back up to third with 498 runs from eight matches in a forgettable 2007-08 for the Redbacks. With the retirements of Darren Lehmann and Matthew Elliott, Ferguson will shoulder even more of the responsibility next year. He bounced back last season from the previous campaign where he was dropped from the Pura Cup team and finished with 342 runs at 26.3, but his one-day record was less impressive this time with a high score of 29 not out, his average down six runs from the previous year, now at 23.25. A lightly-built, stylish right-hand batsman, Ferguson has had two stints at the Centre of Excellence and is highly-rated within the Redbacks camp. He showed incredible maturity when he made his first-class debut three seasons ago and posted 733 Pura Cup runs as the rest of the team's strokeplayers struggled. The next summer 506 at 36 followed but his only concern in making four half-centuries was a highest score of 65. His only two centuries to date both came in his first season. A talented junior, Ferguson was first picked for the Academy in 2002 and was then chosen for the Under-19 World Cup in Bangladesh in 2004, but a knee injury on the eve of the tournament kept him from playing.
Cricinfo staff April 2008
