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Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 80. Chapters: Peter Cook, Desmond Llewelyn, Dennis Price, Richard Ryder, Baron Ryder of Wensum, Andrew Strauss, Ted Dexter, Radley College, Alexander Downer, Andrew Motion, Lawrence Turner, Oliver Philpot, Clive Stafford Smith, Alan Huggins, Rupert Thorneloe, George Mallaby, David Freeman-Mitford, 2nd Baron Redesdale, David Craig, Baron Craig of Radley, Walter Bradford Woodgate, John X. Merriman, Lord Walter Kerr, Reginald Edward Stubbs, Rupert Lowe, Owen Paterson, Jamie Dalrymple, Alec Peterson, Edward Hobart Seymour, Gerald Brenan, Nick Wood, Leslie Scarman, Baron Scarman, Hugh Barrett-Lennard, Charles Jauncey, Baron Jauncey of Tullichettle, Edward Woodgate, Mark Carlisle, Harry Bicket, Ivan Ewart, Hugh Mendl, Christopher Hibbert, Marc Edwards, Charles Howard, 20th Earl of Suffolk, Simon Wolfson, Jeremy Flint, Mark Lowrey, Mark Durden-Smith, Samuel Harvey Reynolds, Evelyn Hubbard, Sandy Nairne, James Lovegrove, Alistair Blair, Chris Baillieu, Bill Kennedy Shaw, George Hollingbery, Harold Monro, Roddy Cordy-Simpson, Joscelyn Godwin, Brian Magee, Richard Wilson, Baron Wilson of Dinton, Andrew Harriman, Cyril Holland, James Bree, Raymond Etherington-Smith, Robert Hodgson, John Metcalfe, Richard Worsley, Chris Sheasby, Eric Fletcher, Baron Fletcher, Sir James Carmichael, 3rd Baronet, Chris Bryant, Francis Storrs, Hugh Dinwiddy, Tim Crooks, Sir Rowland Whitehead, 5th Baronet, Henry Badeley, 1st Baron Badeley, Lord Charles Montagu Douglas Scott, Martin Redmayne, Baron Redmayne, Edward Lowry Henderson, James Bachman, David Dunlop, Michael Hamilton, Roger Leigh, Wilfrid Parker, Richard Lewis, Cecil Hook, Gordon Rattray Taylor, Edward Henderson, Rory Tapner, Ben Hutton, Arthur Godley, 1st Baron Kilbracken, Edward Sturges, David Jennings, Brough Scott, James Collingwood Tinling, John Yate Robinson, Caryl Bagot, 6th Baron Bagot, Michael Lambart, 12th Earl of Cavan, Michael Westmacott, Dudley McGarel-Hogg, 3rd Baron Magheramorne, Robert Hall. Excerpt: Andrew John Strauss, OBE (born 2 March 1977) is an English cricketer who plays county cricket for Middlesex County Cricket Club and is the captain of England's Test cricket team. A fluent left-handed opening batsman, Strauss favours scoring off the back foot, mostly playing cut and pull shots. Strauss is also known for his fielding strength at slip or in the covers. He made his first-class debut in 1998, and his One Day International (ODI) debut in Sri Lanka in 2003. He quickly rose to fame on his Test match debut replacing the injured Michael Vaughan at Lords against New Zealand in 2004. With scores of 112 and 83 (run out) in an England victory, and the man of the match award, he became only the fourth batsman to score a century at Lord's on his debut and was close to becoming the first Englishman to score centuries in both innings of his debut. Strauss again nearly scored two centuries (126 and 94 not out) and was named man of the match in his first overseas Test match, in Port Elizabeth, South Africa, in December 2004. Strauss suffered a drop in form during 2007, and as a result he was left out of the Test squad for England's tour of Sri Lanka, and announced that he was taking a break from cricket. After a poor tour for England, Strauss was recalled into the squad for the 2008 tour of New Zealand and subsequently re-established himself in the side with a career-best 177 in the third and final Test of that series, and a further three centuries in 2008. Having deputised fo...