Michael Page
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| Batting style | Right-handed batsman (RHB) | |
| Bowling type | Right-arm off-break | |
| First-class | List A | |
| Matches | 254 | 80 |
| Runs scored | 11538 | 1262 |
| Batting average | 28.55 | 16.38 |
| 100s/50s | 9/63 | -/4 |
| Top score | 162 | 83 |
| Balls bowled | 888 | 13 |
| Wickets | 7 | - |
| Bowling average | 75.28 | - |
| 5 wickets in innings | - | - |
| 10 wickets in match | - | N/A |
| Best bowling | 1-0 | - |
| Catches/stumpings | 248/0 | 34/0 |
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Debut: 3 June 1964 |
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Michael Harry Page (born June 17, 1941) was an English cricketer. He was a right-handed batsman and a right-arm off-break bowler who played first-class cricket for Derbyshire between 1964 and 1975. He was born in Blackpool.
Page began his career with Nottinghamshire and Lancashire, for whom he played briefly for the Second XI, though it was with Derbyshire that he was to decide to play first-class cricket. He signed a professional contract in 1964. Page's Derbyshire debut, in June 1964, was a steady one, as he scored 25 and aided team-mate Edwin Smith in a seventh-wicket partnership of 57 against Worcestershire. In August of the same year he scored 112 against Leicestershire at Chesterfield, the first of nine centuries which included a career-best of 162 in Derbyshire's otherwise dismal 1969 season.
Page remained a first-team choice for the first half of the 1970s, and 1970 was a better one for Derbyshire, although in following years the team found themselves rooted to the foot of the table, consistently struggling for runs.
Page played for Derbyshire until the 1975 season, playing his final match for the first team in August 1975.
At the beginning of his career, Page bowl occasionally, and he took four wickets on one occasion for Derbyshire's Second XI. But it was clear early on that his primary role would be one of a middle-order batsman, though there was an early attempt to turn him into an opener.
Page helped the Derbyshire team to the runners-up spot in the Gillette Cup competition of 1969.
[edit] External links
- Michael Page at Cricket Archive
