First XI: Darren Lehmann
Name: Darren Scott Lehmann
Role: Left- hand bat, slow left-arm bowler, County Captain
Born: 5 February 1970, Gawler, Australia
Height: 5ft 11", Weight 14st 21lbs
County Debut: 1997
County Cap: 1997
Test Debut: 1997-98
Tests: 5
One Day Internationals: 69
1st Class 50s: 77
1st Class 100s: 48
1st Class 200s 2
1st Class catches: 100
Place in batting averages: 2nd av. 83.29 (2000 4th av.67.13)
Place in bowling averages: 64th av. 30.66
Strike rate: 69.58 (career 86.20)
Best batting: 1996-97 � 255 South Australia v Queensland, Adelaide
Best bowling: 1998 - 4-42 Yorkshire v Kent, Maidstone
Overseas Teams played for:
1987-88 & 1989-90 � Salisbury District CC ( now Northern Districts), Adelaide, South Australia
1990-91 & 1992-93 � Victoria
1993-94 - South Australia
Overseas Tours:
1996-97 � Australia to Sri Lanka
1997-98 - Australia to New Zealand
1997-98 - Australia to Sharjah
1997-98 - Australia to India
1998-99 - Australia to Pakistan
1998-99 - Australia to Bangladesh
1998-99 - Australia to West Indies (one-day series)
1999 - Australia to United Kingdom, Ireland and Holland (World Cup)
1999-00 - Australia to Sri Lanka (one-day series)
1999-00 - Australia to Zimbabwe (one-day series)
Previous Stand Out Performances:
He has scored 1000 runs in an Australian season five times.
Represented South Australia at all age groups.
Scored 1128 runs (av. 57.50) in his first full Sheffield Shield season.
1998-99 - Man of the Match in CUB second final England at Melbourne.
1999 - Played in Australia�s World Cup winning side, striking the winning runs in the final v Pakistan.
1998 - Released by Yorkshire at end of season
1999-0 - Scored 1142 runs at 63.44 (including seven centuries) in the 1999- 00 Australian season.
2000-0 2000 - voted Interstate Cricketer of the Year at the inaugural Allan Border Medal awards.
2000 - Returned to Yorkshire as overseas player.
2000-01 - Won the EDS Walter Lawrence Trophy for the fastest first-class century of the 2000 season � 89 balls for 1477 runs at an average of 67.13
- Awarded ACB contract
1998-99 - Captain of South Australia
2000-01 � Scored a 44-ball 63 for South Australia v Western Australia at Adelaide (becoming the highest scoring batsman in Australian domestic one-day cricket taking over Dean Jones�s 2122 runs)
2000-01 � voted State Player of the Year (second successive year)
2001 � One of Wisdens Five Cricketers of the Year
2001 � B & H Gold Awards for his 114-ball 103 v Derbyshire, Headingley ; 1-13 and 35 v Lancashire, Liverpool ; 76-ball 88 v Durham, Headingley (3 in 8 days)
2001 � C & G Man of the Match award (88 v Bedfordshire at Luton)
2001 � Scored a 288-ball 252 v Lancashire at Headingley (fourth person to score double century at Roses Match)
2001 � Scored 106* v Surrey at Headingley, in the process sharing with Matthew Wood in a record third-wicket partnership for Yorkshire in matches against Surrey.
2001 � 103-ball 191 (includes 11 sixes) v Nottinghamshire in the Norwich Union League at Scarborough � the second highest score in domestic one-day league, behind Alistair Brown�s 203 for Surrey v Hampshire in 1997
2001 � Yorkshire Player of the Year
2001 � Vice-captain of Yorkshire
2002 � became Captain of Yorkshire CCC