Chris Penn (cricketer)

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Chris Penn
Personal information
Full nameChristopher Penn
Born (1963-06-19) 19 June 1963 (age 56)
Dover, Kent
BattingLeft-handed
BowlingRight arm fast-medium
Role Bowler
Domestic team information
YearsTeam
1982–1994 Kent
FC debut29 May 1982 Kent v  Somerset
Last FC 25 June 1994 Kent v  South Africans
LA debut16 May 1982 Kent v  Glamorgan
Last LA 1 August 1993 Kent v  Leicestershire
Career statistics
Competition First-class List A
Matches12899
Runs scored2,048359
Batting average 18.619.97
100s/50s1/60/0
Top score11540
Balls bowled18,6114,483
Wickets 296104
Bowling average 33.2431.88
5 wickets in innings 120
10 wickets in match00
Best bowling7/704/15
Catches/stumpings 56/–21/–
Source: CricInfo, 20 May 2012

Christopher Penn (born 19 June 1963) is a retired English professional cricketer. He played for Kent County Cricket Club from 1982 to 1994, when he was forced to retire through injury. He was subsequently awarded a testimonial in 1996. [1]

He was named Kent's player of the year in 1988 when Kent finished second in the County Championship, taking 88 first-class wickets. After his retirement he worked for the England and Wales Cricket Board in facility development for 5 years before joining St Edmund's School, Canterbury as Head of Boy's Games in the Junior School. [2] He also spent periods of time as specialist bowling coach to Kent and the ECB women's cricket squad under coach Paul Farbrace.

Penn worked for the Transvaal Cricket Council under Dr Ali Bacher in the early 1980s coaching cricket in the Johannesburg Townships and playing club cricket for Kohinore Crescents, and Wits University and Green Point Cricket Club in Cape Town. He was awarded a Whitbread Scholarship to Perth, Western Australia in 1985.

Penn played two Test and two One-Day International matches for England under-19s in 1982 and was a schoolboy international at under-15 and under-17 level. His uncle Fred Durrant was a professional footballer for Queens Park Rangers, Brentford and Exeter City, later player-managing non-league side Dover.

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References

  1. Kent bowler Chris Penn retires, The Independent (7 September 1995). Retrieved 25 September 2014.
  2. Teaching Staff, Sport, St Edmund's School, Canterbury. Retrieved 10 November 2018.