Wisden overview
Rangy, lithe and with a loping approach to the wicket, Tudor is a natural fast bowler - except he doesn't sledge. He falls away slightly at the crease but gets the ball to leave the right-hander and can undo the best batsmen through sheer pace, as the Waugh twins discovered on his Test debut at Perth in 1998-99. As a batsman he is faithful to his Caribbean roots, slashing anything pitched up through the covers with a full swing of the bat, and deft off his pads. But injury and poor management have held back his international career (he did not play for two years after making 99* against New Zealand in July 1999) and he had a frustrating time in South Africa in 1999-00, when England became obsessed with ironing out his no-ball problem. But after a successful winter with the ECB Academy in 2002, where a long-standing pelvic condition was diagnosed and treated, he returned a better bowler. Tudor formed a prolific new-ball partnership with Martin Bicknell at Surrey, and was man of the match against Sri Lanka at Old Trafford, but he was not an original selection for that winter's Ashes tour - the suspicion remains that his hunger for the game is not everything it should be. Lawrence Booth

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