# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/michael-yardy
# Generated: 2026-08-12T21:28:36.973Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/michael-yardy"
name: "Michael Yardy"
slug: "michael-yardy"
description: "Michael Howard Yardy is an English cricket coach and former professional cricketer who played limited over internationals for the England cricket team between 2006 and 2011. He played as a left-handed batsman and captained Sussex County Cricket Club. He had an unusual batting technique which involved him taking guard outside leg stump before a pronounced shuffle across the crease immediately prior to the bowler releasing the ball. Yardy also bowled slow left arm with a characteristic round armed action, and was used as a bowling all-rounder in England's One Day International and Twenty20 International teams. Yardy retired from professional cricket at the end of the 2015 season. Yardy was a member of the England team that won the 2010 ICC World Twenty20."
tagline: "Cricket player of England. (born 1980)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Michael_Yardy_2010%2C_cropped_(2).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "GB"
category:
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profileType:
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birthDate: "1980-11-27"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  momentum:             4.285714285714284
  historical:           4.892586666666667
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  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "مايكل ياردى"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump