| Personal information | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Steven Philip Cheetham | |||
| Born | 5 September 1987 Oldham, Greater Manchester, England |
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| Nickname | Cheets | |||
| Height | 6 ft 5 in (1.96 m) | |||
| Batting style | Right-hand | |||
| Bowling style | Right-arm fast-medium | |||
| Role | Bowler | |||
| Domestic team information | ||||
| Years | Team | |||
| 2003–2011 | Lancashire (squad no. 18) | |||
| 2010 (loan) | Surrey | |||
| Career statistics | ||||
| Competition | FC | LA | ||
| Matches | 2 | 10 | ||
| Runs scored | 0 | 20 | ||
| Batting average | 0.00 | 10.00 | ||
| 100s/50s | 0/0 | 0/0 | ||
| Top score | 0* | 13* | ||
| Balls bowled | 240 | 378 | ||
| Wickets | 3 | 14 | ||
| Bowling average | 66.00 | 28.50 | ||
| 5 wickets in innings | 0 | 0 | ||
| 10 wickets in match | 0 | – | ||
| Best bowling | 2/71 | 4/32 | ||
| Catches/stumpings | 1/– | 1/– | ||
| Source: Cricinfo, 2 November 2011 | ||||
Steven Philip Cheetham (born 5 September 1987) is an English cricketer. He is a right-handed batsman and a right-arm fast bowler who plays for Lancashire. He was born in Oldham, Greater Manchester, and attended Bury Grammar School. Cheetham, who also plays local league cricket for Heywood Cricket Club, made his Second XI debut back in 2005. Cheetham is a tailend batsman within the Second XI lineup along with team-mate Gaurav Dhar. He has recently spent six months over in Australia playing for Cheltenham Cricket Club, a local Melbourne side where he took 34 wickets at an average of 13.80, including a hat-trick in the semi final against Old Mentonians.
Steven Cheetham made his debut in first-class cricket in a match between Lancashire and Durham University in April 2007. He didn't bat, although recorded bowling figures of no wickets for 83 runs (0/83) in the first innings and 1/44 in the second.[1] A year later, Cheetham played his maiden list A match; on 18 May, Lancashire played Durham. Cheetham took 2/39 as Lancashire lost by six runs.[2] Until his loan to Surrey towards the end of the 2010 season, Cheetham played five list A matches for Lancashire, including one against each of the Bangladesh and West Indies A teams.[3]
On 4 August 2010, Cheetham moved to Surrey until the end of the 2010 season on loan. With limited opportunities to play first-team cricket at Lancashire, there was a greater chance to play at Surrey who at the time had suffered injuries to their bowling attack. According to Chris Adams, Surrey's cricket manager, "Steven is a young bowler with terrific physical attributes, who bowls wicket to wicket and is very much at the start of his career".[4] Drafted straight into the team, Cheetham played his first match for Surrey the same day.[3] In what was a rain-effected match against Glamorgan, Cheetham conceded 61 runs from 4 overs, taking a wicket as Surrey won.[5] While with Surrey, Cheetham played just his second first-class match; his first in three years.[6] The second-division match against Leicestershire was curtailed by rain, and in an effort to contrive a result, Surrey used declaration bowling and then forfeited an innings to set up a run-chase.[7] Consequentailly, Cheetham didn't bowl in Leicestershire's first innings, although he took 2/71 in the second as the match headed for a draw.[8] In a match against The Unicorns on 22 August, Cheetham took 4 wickets for 32 runs while opening the bowling, beating his previous best figures in list A cricket.[9]
Following an injury to Lancashire captain and bowler Glen Chapple in September, Cheetham was recalled early from his stint with Surrey.[10] In October 2011, having been unable to break into Lancashire's first-team which won the County Championship, Cheetham was released by the club.[11]