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John Davison
Canada
Personal information
Batting style	Right hand bat
Bowling style	Right arm off break
Career statistics
	Tests	ODIs
Matches	-	25
Runs scored	-	693
Batting average	-	28.87
100s/50s	-	1/5
Top score	-	111
Balls bowled	-	1201
Wickets	-	31
Bowling average	-	26.96
5 wickets in innings	-	0
10 wickets in match	-	n/a
Best bowling	-	3/15
Catches/stumpings	-	12/0
As of March 30, 2007 Source: [1]

John Michael Davison (born 9 May 1970 in Campbell River, British Columbia) is a well known Canadian cricket player. He is a hard-hitting right-handed batsman in the top or middle order, useful off spin bowler and good fielder.

Contents 1 Biography 2 2003 World Cup highlights 3 2007 World Cup Highlights 4 Teams 4.1 International 4.2 Australian state 5 Career highlights 5.1 One-day Internationals 5.2 ICC Trophy 6 References 7 External links

Although born in Canada, Davison moved to Australia and attended school at St Ignatius' College, Riverview where he was a member of the 1st XI before playing grade cricket in Melbourne and attending the Australian Cricket Academy in 1993. He was a member of the Victoria state squad for a number of years but was unable to hold down a regular place in the side.

In 1999, Davison agreed to spend the Australian winters in Canada as a club player and coach. He quickly became involved with the Canadian national team, representing them in the 2001 ICC Trophy where Canada performed well to qualify for the 2003 Cricket World Cup in South Africa and Zimbabwe.

At the World Cup, Davison made an overnight name for himself (see 2003 World Cup section below), stunning the strong West Indies team with an aggressive innings of 111 (then the quickest century in World Cup history, and the first One Day International century for Canada), before making a half-century against New Zealand at the incredible strike rate of 200.

After his successes for the modest Canadian team at the World Cup, Davison returned to Australia and continued playing for South Australia, where he had played since 2002 after being released by Victoria.

Continuing his form for Canada, Davison returned to the national lineup for the 2004 ICC Intercontinental Cup, and was named as captain. He was in inspirational form as Canada overcame rivals USA, taking match figures of 17 for 137 - the best first-class match figures anywhere in the world for nearly fifty years - and scoring a half-century as Canada won the match ^[1].

His form at international level did not help in Australia though as in January 2005, Davison was dropped from the South Australia state squad ^[2]. He continued to play cricket in Australia at a lower level during the Australian summer. In the 2006-07 season, he played for Mosman in Sydney Grade Cricket ^[3].

Davison has continued to represent Canada internationally as captain of the team, and was named in the Canada squad for the 2007 Cricket World Cup.

• On 23 February against the West Indies, Davison scored 111 runs off of 76 balls, the first 100 of which were scored off of 67 balls - the fastest century in World Cup history at the time^[4], and one of the fastest in ODI history ^[5]. In his innings, he hit 6 sixes and 8 fours before eventually falling to a spectacular backwards-leaping catch at the boundary by Vasbert Drakes having attempted to score yet another six. The second-highest score for his team was just 19. He had been dropped on 50 and on 78, and more unusually, escaped when he played a ball onto the stumps without disturbing the bails. Despite his performance, Canada were convincingly beaten by the West Indies, who reached their target of 203 in just over 20 overs.

• On 23 March against New Zealand, Davison reached 50 runs in 23 balls which was the third fastest fifty in World Cup history ^[6], behind only Brendon McCullum, who did it in 20 balls in the same match^[7], and Mark Boucher, who took 21 balls six days previously. However, New Zealand went on to win the match by 114 runs.

Career record	First-class	List A
Matches	50	58
Runs scored	1149	1371
Batting average	16.65	26.88
100s/50s	1/4	2/8
Top score	165	125
Balls bowled	9,942	2482
Wickets	110	66
Bowling average	45.59	27.46
5 wickets in innings	5	1
10 wickets in match	1	n/a
Best Bowling	9/76	5/26
Catches/Stumpings	25/0	20/0
As of 23 February 2007 Source: [2] Edit this template

• Canada (current)

• Victoria (1995-2002)
• South Australia (2002-2005)

• ODI Debut: vs Bangladesh, Durban, 2003 World Cup
• Latest ODI: vs Kenya, Nairobi (Jaffrey Sports Club), 5 February 2007
• Davison's best ODI batting score of 111 was made against West Indies, Centurion, 2003 World Cup
• His best ODI bowling figures of 3 for 15 came against Kenya, Cape Town, 2003 World Cup

• ICC Trophy Debut: vs Singapore, Toronto, 2001
• Latest ICC Trophy Game: vs Scotland, Toronto, 2001
• Davison's best ICC Trophy batting score of 35 was made against Denmark, Toronto, 2001
• His best ICC Trophy bowling figures of 3 for 15 came against Denmark, Toronto, 2001

1. ^ "Davidson's astounding performance leads Canada to victory", Cricinfo, 30 May 2004. Retrieved on 2007-02-23. 
2. ^ "End of the road for Davison", Cricinfo, 12 January 2005. Retrieved on 2007-02-23. 
3. ^ "Dynamo Davison in vintage touch", The Weekly Times, 9 September 2006. Retrieved on 2007-02-23. 
4. ^ World Cup Records| Fastest 100's. Retrieved on 23 February 2007.
5. ^ One Day Internationals: Fastest Centuries and Half Centuries. Cricinfo. Retrieved on 2007-02-23.
6. ^ World Cup Records: Fastest 50's. Retrieved on 23 March 2007.
7. ^ Record for McCullum as Kiwis win. BBC Sport. Retrieved on 2007-03-23.

• Cricinfo profile on John Davison
• HowSTAT! statistical profile on John Davison
• World Cup Records: Fastest 50's

v • d • e Canada squad - 2003 Cricket World Cup
1 Harris • 2 de Groot • 3 Billcliff • 4 Maraj • 5 Chumney • 6 F. Samad • 7 Patel • 8 Davison • 9 Bagai • 10 Thuraisingam • 11 Joseph • 12 Seebaran • 13 Codrington • 14 Ifill • 15 A. Samad

v • d • e Canada squad - 2007 Cricket World Cup
1 Davison (c) • 2 Ali • 3 Bagai • 4 Barnett • 5 Bhatti • 6 Billcliff • 7 Chumney • 8 A. Codrington • 9 G. Codrington • 10 Cummins • 11 Dhaniram • 12 Mulla • 13 Osinde • 14 Samad • 15 Sandher • Coach: Pick