Frederick Swarbrook

Frederick Swarbrook
Personal information
Full name Frederick Swarbrook
Born 17 December 1950
Derby, England
Batting style Left-handed batsman
Bowling style Left-arm slow orthodox bowler
Domestic team information
YearsTeam
1967-1979 Derbyshire
1972-1988 Griqualand West
First-class debut 1 July 1967 Derbyshire v Cambridge University
Last First-class 29 January 1988 Griqualand West v Northern Transvaal B
List A debut 7 September 1969 Derbyshire v Hampshire
Last List A 19 October 1985 Griqualand West v Transvaal
Career statistics
Competition First-class List A
Matches 254 86
Runs scored 6191 958
Batting average 21.95 18.78
100s/50s 1/25 0/2
Top score 104* 58*
Balls bowled 32181 2964
Wickets 467 67
Bowling average 29.97 26.83
5 wickets in innings 15
10 wickets in match 2
Best bowling 9-20 4-15
Catches/stumpings 149 28/-
Source: , January 2012

Frederick Swarbrook (born 17 December 1950) is a former English cricketer who played first-class cricket for Derbyshire from 1967 to 1979 and for Griqualand West from 1972/73 to 1987/88.

Swarbrook was born at Derby and began playing for Derbyshire second and other teams in 1965. His first-class debut came in the 1967 season, against Cambridge University, and he made his County Championship debut the following season against Worcestershire. Bowling tightly, he took two wickets for just ten runs in his first bowling stint for the team. He continued to play consistently through to 1971, before being snapped up to play in the southern hemisphere for Griqualand West. The team, however, finished bottom of the Section B table in 1972/73, and within three months Swarbrook was back playing for Derbyshire. He continued in the Currie Cup until 1976, after which he became a fixture in the Derbyshire first team. He played for Derbyshire during a Pakistani tour of England in 1977, and moved back to play for Orange Free State in 1980.

For the next eight years, he stayed in South Africa, completing his stint at Orange before moving to Griqualand West, where he played until 1988.

He was a left-handed batsman and a left-arm slow bowler. While at Derbyshire, Swarbrook remained a lower-order batsman and a strong bowler. Swarbrook hit two ten-wicket matches during his Derbyshire career, once against Oxford University and once against Sussex, taking a match-best 13/62.[1]

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