Mark Beardshall

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Mark Beardshall (born January 10, 1962) was an English cricketer. He was a right-handed batsman and a right-arm medium-pace bowler who played for Derbyshire in 1987. He was born in Barnsley.

Debuting in the Second XI Championship two years previously for Yorkshire, Beardshall was to soon move to play for the Peakites, for whom he debuted just short of a half-century in May 1987. He was to be promoted to the first team for the remainder of the 1987 season, making his debut first-class appearance against Hampshire, though he failed to hold his own in the first team and went back to play with the Second XI, where he felt more comfortable.

In the same year, he played in the Peakites' victorious 1987 Bane Dawes Trophy campaign, picking up four wickets against Hampshire. He was not to play first-class cricket again after 1987, and played in the second XI for the last time in 1989, making a respectable final Second XI Championship appearance. Generally speaking, Beardshall was a tailend batsman, though his appearances at the bottom of the Derbyshire order were saved for those times when Devon Malcolm and Ole Mortensen were both in relatively good batting form.