PROFILE

Tim Bresnan, the only Ashes winner on Yorkshire’s current playing staff, has turned himself into an integral part of England’s plans in all three forms of the game, and has an enviable statistic under his belt.

The Pontefract-born bowling all-rounder won the first 13 Test matches he played in between 2009 and 2012, in which time he took the wicket that retained the Ashes for England in Australia in December of 2011.

He also played in every match of England’s successful World Twenty20 campaign in the West Indies in 2010 alongside new ball partner and current White Rose colleague Ryan Sidebottom.

Bresnan is by no means the quickest bowler in the world, but his relentless accuracy and ability to move the ball through the air and off the pitch has made him a force at the highest level.

Added to this, his value with the bat in the late middle order should not be underestimated in any format, and he has three first-class hundreds to his name – all scored in the 2007 summer for Yorkshire (two) and the England Lions.

Having come through the ranks at Townville and Castleford Cricket Clubs, he became the youngest player to play for Yorkshire’s first team in 20 years when he played a Sunday League match against Kent at Headingley in 2001 aged just 16 years and 102 days.

Bresnan will hope to add two more Ashes winner’s medals to his collection inside the next 12 months with back-to-back series at home and abroad. That is after hopefully giving Yorkshire a flying start to the 2013 domestic campaign.

CAREER HIGHLIGHTS:

2001 – Debuted for Yorkshire’s first team, meaning he was youngest player to play for the county in 20 years – Paul Jarvis was 16 years and 75 days old when he burst onto the scene in 1981.

2002/2004 – Played for England under 19s at two World Cups in New Zealand and then in Bangladesh, reaching the semi-finals at the latter.

2005 – Scored three Championship half-centuries through the summer and claimed 5-42 in a win against Worcestershire at New Road, which is still a career best for him in first-class cricket.

2006 – Debuted for England in both one-day and Twenty20 cricket against Sri Lanka, but injury struck to force him out of the second half of the summer. Awarded his county cap in July.

2007 - Scored his maiden first-class century against Surrey at the Oval in July, 2007 when he made 116 and set a record ninth-wicket partnership for Yorkshire of 246 with Jason Gillespie, now his county coach. It was one of three centuries that summer.

2009 – After making a brief England return in a one-day international against Scotland in August, 2008, Bresnan was handed his Test debut against the West Indies at Lord’s in May, a match which England won by 10 wickets. He also featured prominently in England’s limited overs plans for the rest of the year.

2010 – Took seven wickets in two Tests on tour of Bangladesh and scored a first-innings 91 in the second Test at Mirpur from number seven in the order before winning the World Twenty20 in the Caribbean a couple of months later in May. He then took six wickets in the fourth Test of the Ashes series Down Under at Melbourne, including 4-50 in the second innings. He finished with eleven wickets in a series which England won Down Under for the first time since 1986/7.

2011 – Claimed a career best 5-48 in both one-day and Test cricket against India – first at the World Cup in March and then in a 4-0 Test series win on home soil in the summer as England became number one in the world in the longer format.

2012 – Snared eight wickets in the match as Bresnan, now known as his country’s lucky charm, won his 13^th Test in a row with England against the West Indies at Trent Bridge in May. A draw at Edgbaston in the next Test ended that run, but featured in all forms of cricket against South Africa and India later in the year. Also played in World Twenty20 in Sri Lanka in September.

2013 – Was ruled out of England’s winter tour of New Zealand with an elbow injury.