Michael Yardy

Michael Howard Yardy (born 27 November 1980) is an English former cricketer who played limited over internationals. He is a left-handed batsman and former Sussex County Cricket Club captain whose unusual technique has attracted a great deal of attention due to a pronounced shuffle from leg to off immediately prior to the bowler releasing the ball. Yardy also bowls slow left arm with a characteristic round armed action similar to that of Australia's Darren Lehmann, and is used as a bowling all-rounder in England's ODI and Twenty20 teams. On 21 July 2015, Yardy announced that he would retire from cricket at the end of the current season.