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Full name | Alan Roderick Hansford | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born | Cuckfield, Sussex, England | 1 October 1968|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Batting | Right-handed | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bowling | Right-arm medium | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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1989–1992 | Sussex | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Source:Cricinfo,14 March 2012 |
Alan Roderick Hansford (born 1 October 1968) is a former English first-class cricketer. A right-handed batsman who bowled right-arm medium pace,he was born at Cuckfield,Sussex.
Hansford made his debut in List A cricket for the Combined Universities against Surrey in the 1989 Benson &Hedges Cup. He played five matches for the Combined Universities side in that competition, [1] which captained by Michael Atherton,famously reached the quarter-final of the competition by defeating professional first-class opposition along the way. Having played for the Sussex Second XI since 1987,it was in the 1989 season that he made his first-class debut for Sussex against Cambridge University at Hove,taking figures of 4/46 and 4/29 during the match. [2] During his time at Sussex,he featured infrequently in first-class cricket,making just nine further appearances,the last of which came against Hampshire in the 1992 County Championship. [3] Primarily a bowler,Hansford took 30 wickets in his ten first-class appearances,which came at an average of 33.03,with best figures of 5/79. [4] These figures were his only first-class five wicket haul,and came against Hampshire in 1989. [5]
He first featured in List A cricket for Sussex in his debut season,making his debut in that format for the county in the Refuge Assurance League against Hampshire. He featured in a total of seventeen List A matches for the county in 1989 and 1990, [1] including taking what would be his only five wicket haul in one-day cricket,against Gloucestershire in 1989. [6] In 1991,he once again featured for the Combined Universities in the Benson &Hedges Cup,making four appearances. [1] Further appearances in that format for Sussex followed,with Hansford making five further appearances for the county,the last of which came against Northamptonshire in the Sunday League. [1] In total,Hansford made 23 List A appearances for Sussex,taking 24 wickets at an average of 42.54. [7]
Michael Atherton later wrote that Hansford was the only gay cricketer he had come across,in response to a letter from Hansford in which he wrote "there can't be too many gay accountants who dismissed you twice in a first-class match" (in reference to Hansford's first-class debut against Cambridge University,in which he dismissed Atherton twice). [2] [8]
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