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| Full name | David Arthur Hancock | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 28 March 1940 Newcastle-under-Lyme, Staffordshire, England | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Batting | Left-handed | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Domestic team information | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Years | Team | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1977–1978 | Minor Counties East | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1972–1975 | Minor Counties North | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1958–1983 | Staffordshire | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Source: Cricinfo, 21 June 2011 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
David Arthur Hancock (born 28 March 1940) is a former English cricketer. Hancock was a left-handed batsman. He was born in Newcastle-under-Lyme, Staffordshire.
Cricket is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of eleven players on a field at the centre of which is a 20-metre (22-yard) pitch with a wicket at each end, each comprising two bails balanced on three stumps. The batting side scores runs by striking the ball bowled at the wicket with the bat, while the bowling and fielding side tries to prevent this and dismiss each player. Means of dismissal include being bowled, when the ball hits the stumps and dislodges the bails, and by the fielding side catching the ball after it is hit by the bat, but before it hits the ground. When ten players have been dismissed, the innings ends and the teams swap roles. The game is adjudicated by two umpires, aided by a third umpire and match referee in international matches. They communicate with two off-field scorers who record the match's statistical information.
Newcastle-under-Lyme is a market town in Staffordshire, England. At the 2011 census it had a population of 75,082. It is part of the borough of Newcastle-under-Lyme, which had a population of 128,264 in 2016, up from 123,800 in the 2011 Census.
Staffordshire is a landlocked county in the West Midlands of England. It borders with Cheshire to the northwest, Derbyshire and Leicestershire to the east, Warwickshire to the southeast, West Midlands and Worcestershire to the south, and Shropshire to the west.
Hancock made his debut for Staffordshire in the 1958 Minor Counties Championship against the Yorkshire Second XI. Hancock played Minor counties cricket for Staffordshire from 1958 to 1983, which included 204 Minor Counties Championship matches. [1] In his entire Minor Counties Championship career for Staffordshire, he scored 9,303 runs at an average of 27.93, making 51 half centuries and 8 centuries, which included a high score of 148. [2]
Staffordshire County Cricket Club is one of twenty minor county clubs within the domestic cricket structure of England and Wales. It represents the historic county of Staffordshire. The team is currently a member of the Minor Counties Championship Eastern Division and plays in the MCCA Knockout Trophy. Staffordshire played List A matches occasionally from 1971 until 2005 but is not classified as a List A team per se.
Yorkshire County Cricket Club is one of eighteen first-class county clubs within the domestic cricket structure of England and Wales. It represents the historic county of Yorkshire. The club's limited overs team is called the Yorkshire Vikings. Yorkshire teams formed by earlier organisations, essentially the old Sheffield Cricket Club, played top-class cricket from the 18th century and the county club has always held first-class status. Yorkshire have competed in the County Championship since the official start of the competition in 1890 and have played in every top-level domestic cricket competition in England.
In the sport of cricket, a century is a score of 100 or more runs in a single innings by a batsman or batswoman. The term is also included in "century partnership" which occurs when two batters add 100 runs to the team total when they are batting together. A century is regarded as a landmark score for batters and a player's number of centuries is generally recorded in his career statistics. Scoring a century is loosely equivalent in merit to a bowler taking five wickets in an innings, and is commonly referred to as a ton or hundred. Scores of more than 200 runs are still statistically counted as a century, although these scores are referred as double, triple, and quadruple centuries, and so on.
He made his List A debut for Staffordshire against Glamorgan in the 1971 Gillette Cup. Hancock made 5 further List A appearances for Staffordshire, the last coming against Sussex in the 1979 Gillette Cup. [3] He scored 129 runs in these matches, [4] which included his highest score in List A cricket, 68 against Sussex in 1979. [5] However the majority of his List A appearances came for Minor Counties team in one form or another. He played for Minor Counties East in 5 matches and for Minor Counties North in 13 matches, representing both teams in the Benson & Hedges Cup. [3] He scored 174 runs at an average of 13.38 for Minor Counties North, while for Minor Counties East he scored just 27 runs at an average of 5.40. [4]
List A cricket is a classification of the limited-overs (one-day) form of the sport of cricket. List A cricket includes One Day International (ODI) matches and various domestic competitions in which the number of overs in an innings per team ranges from forty to sixty, as well as some international matches involving nations who have not achieved official ODI status. Together with first-class and Twenty20 cricket, List A is one of the three major forms of cricket recognised by the International Cricket Council (ICC).
Glamorgan County Cricket Club is one of eighteen first-class county clubs within the domestic cricket structure of England and Wales. It represents the historic county of Glamorgan. Founded in 1888, Glamorgan held minor status at first and was a prominent member of the early Minor Counties Championship before the First World War. In 1921, the club joined the County Championship and the team was elevated to first-class status, subsequently playing in every top-level domestic cricket competition in England and Wales.
The 1971 Gillette Cup was the ninth Gillette Cup, an English limited overs county cricket tournament. It was held between 15 May and 4 September 1971. The tournament was won by Lancashire County Cricket Club who defeated Kent County Cricket Club by 24 runs in the final at Lord's.
