| Personal information | ||||
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| Full name | David John Grimwood Sales | |||
| Born | 3 December 1977 Surrey, England |
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| Nickname | Jumble, Car Boot | |||
| Height | 6 ft 0 in (1.83 m) | |||
| Batting style | Right Handed | |||
| Bowling style | Right Arm Medium | |||
| Role | Middle Order Batsman | |||
| Domestic team information | ||||
| Years | Team | |||
| 1994– | Northamptonshire (squad no. 5) | |||
| 2001–2002 | Wellington | |||
| Career statistics | ||||
| Competition | FC | LA | T20 | |
| Matches | 212 | 246 | 56 | |
| Runs scored | 12,293 | 6,902 | 1,209 | |
| Batting average | 39.65 | 34.51 | 29.48 | |
| 100s/50s | 24/59 | 4/49 | –/10 | |
| Top score | 303* | 161 | 78* | |
| Balls bowled | 345 | 84 | 12 | |
| Wickets | 9 | – | 1 | |
| Bowling average | 20.44 | – | 23.00 | |
| 5 wickets in innings | – | – | – | |
| 10 wickets in match | – | – | – | |
| Best bowling | 4/25 | – | 1/10 | |
| Catches/stumpings | 200/– | 109/– | 28/– | |
| Source: Cricinfo, 25 June 2011 | ||||
David John Grimwood Sales (born 3 December 1977 in Carshalton, Surrey) is an English cricket player who has played for the cricket teams of Northamptonshire, England A and Wellington.
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David impressed as a youngster, when as a 16 year old one day debutant, he became the youngest scorer of a half-century in the Sunday league. He then scored 0 and 210 not out on his first class debut for Northamptonshire against Worcestershire at Kidderminster in 1996, at 18 years 237 days, he is the youngest to score a double hundred in the Championship. In the same year he received the NBC Denis Compton Award. The 210* was not his highest score however, he has passed 200 six other times including a triple century against Essex in 1999 at the age of 21.[1] Also in 1999, David became Northamptonshire's youngest receiver of a county cap. In the English winter of 2001, he joined Wellington cricket club in New Zealand for a year. Whilst still at Northampton, he was made captain in 2004 when he was 26 replacing Mike Hussey who had left the previous year. While as captain he continued to score at an average of over 40, but in 2008, he chose to step down from the role prematurely to concentrate on his batting and boost his chances of playing for England.[2] He was replaced by Nicky Boje for the start of the 2008 season. But the following season, he was ruled out in March with injury until 2010.[3] In January 2010, Sales along with new team-mate James Middlebrook, was picked to represent the MCC against Durham in Abu Dhabi.[4] This was his first game since his injury back in 2009.
Tipped for England honours early in his career, he played for the Under 19's whilst in his last year of compulsory education and made the step up a year later playing for England A. However, on an 'A' tour to the West Indies, he sustained ligament damage to his knee playing beach Volleyball before even playing a game and missed the whole of the 2001 English season.[5]
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