Richard King (cricketer)
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| Full name | Richard Eric King | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born |
3 January 1984 Hitchin, Hertfordshire, England | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Batting style | Right-handed | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Bowling style | Left-arm medium-fast | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| 2007 | Marylebone Cricket Club | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2005 | Northamptonshire | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2003-2008 | Loughborough UCCE | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2001-2002 | Northamptonshire Cricket Board | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Source: Cricinfo, 29 September 2010 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Richard Eric King (born 3 January 1984) is a former English cricketer. King was a right-handed batsman who bowled left-arm medium-fast. He was born at Hitchin, Hertfordshire and educated at Bedford Modern School.[1]
King made his debut in List-A cricket for the Northamptonshire Cricket Board against the Leicestershire Cricket Board in the 1st round of the 2002 Cheltenham & Gloucester Trophy which was played in 2001. His second and final List-A match for the Board came in the 1st round of the 2003 Cheltenham & Gloucester Trophy against the Yorkshire Cricket Board which was played in 2002.
King made his first-class debut for Loughborough UCCE against Somerset in 2003. From 2003 to 2008, he represented Loughborough UCCE in 11 first-class matches, the last of which came against Worcestershire.[2] In 2005, King played a single first-class match for Northamptonshire against the touring Bangladeshis. During the same season he also represented the county in a single List-A match against Gloucestershire in the totesport League.[3]
In 2007, King also represented the Marylebone Cricket Club in a single first-class match against Sri Lanka A.[4] In his combined first-class career, he played 13 matches during which he scored 207 runs at a batting average of 12.17, with a high score of 31. With the ball he took 17 wickets at a bowling average of 55.35, with best figures of 4/34. In the 3 List-A matches he played, he scored 2 runs and took 2 wickets at an average of 46.00, with best figures of 2/39.
References
- ↑ School of the Black And Red-A History of Bedford Modern School, by Andrew Underwood (1981); reset and updated by Peter Boon, Paul Middleton and Richard Wildman (2010)
- ↑ First-Class Matches played by Richard King
- ↑ List-A Matches played by Richard King
- ↑ Teams Richard King played for