David Graveney

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David Anthony Graveney OBE (born 2 January 1953 Westbury-on-Trym) is a leading figure in English cricket as the chairman of the England Test selectors since 1997.

He led a successful first-class cricket career between 1972 and 1994. He was a useful right hand batsman and an orthodox left-arm spinner who represented Gloucestershire (1972–1990) (Captain 1982–1988), Somerset (1991) and Durham (1992–1994) (Captain 1992–1993). he took 981 wickets in 457 first-class matches (with a personal best of 8/85) and 287 wickets in 382 List A limited-over matches (with a personal best of 5/11).

He is a qualified chartered accountant and is a former chief excutive of the Professional Cricketers' Association. He managed the rebel tour to South Africa in 1989-90 and became chairman of the selectors in 1997, taking over from Ray Illingworth. On 31 December 2005 he was awarded the OBE for services to cricket.

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His father Ken Graveney was a prolific right-arm fast bowler with Gloucestershire between 1947 and 1964, who once took 10/66 in an innings. He captained his county between 1963 and 1964.

His uncle Tom Graveney was an elegant batsman with Gloucestershire and Worcestershire (captaining both counties) and played in 79 tests for England.