Daryl Mitchell (cricketer)
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Daryl Keith Henry Mitchell (born in Badsey, Worcestershire on 25 November 1983) is an English cricketer, a lower middle-order right-handed batsman and occasional right-arm medium pace bowler.
After having appeared fairly regularly in the Worcestershire second team since 2002, Mitchell finally made his first-class debut for the county in May 2005 against Loughborough UCCE at Kidderminster. He made only 5 and 12 as Worcestershire slumped to a shock eight-wicket defeat, but after a few weeks out of the side returned to the first team, and in mid-June he scored 63 against Leicestershire.
A slightly surprising part of Mitchell's first full season was in the Twenty20 Cup, when complete failure with the bat (an aggregate of just nine runs in four innings) was balanced by five wickets in 13 overs with the ball, including 2-26 against Somerset.
After a successful winter playing in Australia, Mitchell began the 2006 season as a first choice opener in the absence of overseas player Phil Jaques and scored his first half-century of the season against Somerset.
