Adrian Dale

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Adrian Dale (born October 24, 1968) was a right-handed batsman and a right-arm medium-pace bowler who scored over 12,500 first class runs and took over 200 first class wickets. He played exclusively for Glamorgan, playing with the team between 1989 and 2004. His only other first class games were when he was selected to tour South Africa with England A in 1992. Adrian was born in South Africa but raised in Wales.

While with Glamorgan, he won the Young Player of the Year award in 1991, a year before winning a cap for his county. He was to win the more prestigious title of Player of the Year in the two consecutive years of 2000 and 2001 and was to have a benefit season in 2002 which would raise £113,000. He was part of the 1997 Championship winning team.

Most recently, he participated in the Twenty20 Cup matches of 2003 and 2004, finishing his career by hitting the winning runs in the crucial game of Glamorgans 2004 1st Division One Day Championship.

He has now moved to New Zealand and manages Cornwall Cricket Club in Auckland.

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