David Wigley
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David Harry Wigley (born 26 October 1981 in Bradford, Yorkshire) is an English cricketer, a right-arm fast-medium bowler who bats right-handed.
After a number of matches for Yorkshire's second eleven, he made his first senior appearance for the county in a List A game against West Indies A at Leeds in July 2002, but went for 38 runs in seven wicketless overs. Wigley made his first-class debut later that month against Surrey at Guildford, but again struggled, conceding 116 runs from 20.4 overs for the solitary scalp of Saqlain Mushtaq.
In 2003, after a single game for Loughborough UCCE, he was signed by Worcestershire, making a couple of first-team appearances late in the season. He played for both Loughborough and Worcestershire in 2004, captaining the university side, and then spent the winter playing club cricket in Perth.
In 2005, Wigley played three County Championship games in April, but was unfortunate to suffer injury against Lancashire at the end of the month when his hand was broken by a beamer sent down by Jimmy Anderson. He was sidelined for more than a month, and though he played one-day matches against the Bangladeshis and Essex he was unable to force his way back into the first team.
That winter, Wigley moved to Northamptonshire, and in 2006 he was given more opportunities than he had had at Worcestershire, playing in eight first-class and five one-day games. His season was rather mixed: in first-class cricket he took 18 wickets at 44.22, and claimed his first five-wicket haul in taking 5-77 against the Pakistanis in July, but in the one-day game he struggled badly, recording an aggregate analysis of 29-0-181-0.
