| Personal information | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Richard Lawrence Ashton | |||
| Born | 26 September 1963 Northampton, Northamptonshire, England |
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| Batting style | Right-handed | |||
| Bowling style | Right-arm medium | |||
| Domestic team information | ||||
| Years | Team | |||
| 1999-2000 | Northamptonshire Cricket Board | |||
| 1991 | Bedfordshire | |||
| 1988 | Lincolnshire | |||
| Career statistics | ||||
| Competition | LA | |||
| Matches | 3 | |||
| Runs scored | 8 | |||
| Batting average | 4.00 | |||
| 100s/50s | –/– | |||
| Top score | 5* | |||
| Balls bowled | 100 | |||
| Wickets | 1 | |||
| Bowling average | 98.00 | |||
| 5 wickets in innings | – | |||
| 10 wickets in match | – | |||
| Best bowling | 1/30 | |||
| Catches/stumpings | 2/– | |||
| Source: Cricinfo, 21 November 2010 | ||||
Richard Lawrence Ashton (born 26 September 1963) is an English cricketer. Ashton is a right-handed batsman who bowls right-arm medium pace. He was born at Northampton, Northamptonshire.
Pack made his debut in County Cricket for Lincolnshire by playing a single Minor Counties Championship match for them against Durham in 1988.
In 1991, he joined Bedfordshire, where during that season he played 3 Minor Counties Championship matches against Northumberland, Cumberland and Suffolk.[1] In his only season with the county, he also played a single List A match against Worcestershire in the 1991 NatWest Trophy.
Eight years later he represented the Northamptonshire Cricket Board, playing 2 List A matches for the Board against Wiltshire in the 1999 NatWest Trophy and Northumberland in the 2000 NatWest Trophy.[2] In his career total of 3 List A matches, he scored 8 runs at a batting average of 4.00, with a high score of 5*. In the field he took 2 catches, while with the ball he took a single wicket at a bowling average of 98.00, with best figures of 1/30.
He currently plays club cricket for Northampton Saints Cricket Club in the Northamptonshire Cricket League.