Ian Richards (cricketer)
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| Full name | Ian Michael Richards | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born |
9 December 1957 Stockton-on-Tees, County Durham, England | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Batting style | Left-handed | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Bowling style | Right-arm medium | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| 1981–1982 | Durham | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1976–1979 | Northamptonshire | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Source: Cricinfo, 31 August 2011 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Ian Michael Richards (born 9 December 1957) is a former English cricketer. Richards was a left-handed batsman who bowled right-arm medium pace. He was born in Stockton-on-Tees, County Durham.
Richards made his first-class debut for Northamptonshire against Oxford University in 1976. He played first-class cricket for Northamptonshire from 1976 to 1979, making 23 first-class appeaerances.[1] In his first-class career for the county, he scored 467 runs at an average of 22.23, with a high score of 50.[2] This score, his only first-class fifty, came against Nottinghamshire in 1976.[3] With the ball, he took 7 wickets at a bowling average of 28.71, with best figures of 4/57.[4] His List A debut also came in 1976, when Northamptonshire played Nottinghamshire in the John Player League. Richards made nine further List A appearances for the county, the last of which came against Yorkshire in the 1979 John Player League.[5] In his ten List A matches for Northamptonshire, he scored 44 runs at an average of 8.80, with a high score of 18.[6] With the ball, he took 2 wickets at an average of 76.00, with best figures of 1/22.[7]
He later joined Durham, making his debut for the county in the 1981 Minor Counties Championship, playing a match each against Shropshire. He played Minor counties cricket for Durham in 1981 and 1982, making six appearances.[8] He made a single List A appearance for the county in the 1982 NatWest Trophy against Surrey.[5] In this match, he scored 9 runs before being dismissed by Kevin Mackintosh, with Surrey winning by 111 runs.[9]
References
- ↑ "First-Class Matches played by Ian Richards". CricketArchive. Retrieved 31 August 2011.
- ↑ "First-class Batting and Fielding For Each Team by Ian Richards". CricketArchive. Retrieved 31 August 2011.
- ↑ "Northamptonshire v Nottinghamshire, 1976 County Championship". CricketArchive. Retrieved 31 August 2011.
- ↑ "First-class Bowling For Each Team by Ian Richards". CricketArchive. Retrieved 31 August 2011.
- 1 2 "List A Matches played by Ian Richards". CricketArchive. Retrieved 31 August 2011.
- ↑ "List A Batting and Fielding For Each Team by Ian Richards". CricketArchive. Retrieved 31 August 2011.
- ↑ "List A Bowling For Each Team by Ian Richards". CricketArchive. Retrieved 31 August 2011.
- ↑ "Minor Counties Championship Matches played by Ian Richards". CricketArchive. Retrieved 31 August 2011.
- ↑ "Surrey v Durham, 1982 NatWest Trophy". CricketArchive. Retrieved 31 August 2011.