[3] In his sixteen Test matches, French scored 309 runs at an average of 18.11, took thirty eight catches and made one stumping.
This was a lean time for a mediocre England team whose star players, David Gower, Ian Botham and Graham Gooch, were either struggling or absent; the majority of the Tests in which French played ended in draws.
He had at least finished on the winning side when England were victorious in the World Series Cup at the end of that tour of Australia.
[5] He was also part of the sides that won the 1981 County Championship, the 1991 Refuge Assurance League, and the Benson and Hedges Cup in 1989.
These included being bitten by a dog, being hit by a spectator-thrown ball whilst practising, and then knocked down by a car as he arrived at hospital for treatment.
[10] French joined the 1990 rebel tour to South Africa, a decision which confirmed that his test playing days were over.