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| Full name | David Edward Paynter | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 25 January 1981 Truro, England | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Batting | Right-handed | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Bowling | Right-arm off spin | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Role | Batsman | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Relations | E Paynter (great-grandfather) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Years | Team | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2001–2003 | Northamptonshire | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| First-class debut | 3 July 2002 Northamptonshire v Durham | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Last First-class | 4 June 2003 Northamptonshire v Gloucestershire | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| List A debut | 27 June 2001 Northamptonshire Cricket Board v Northamptonshire | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Last List A | 6 August 2003 Northamptonshire v Scotland | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Source:CricketArchive,27 January 2010 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
David Edward Paynter (born 25 January 1981) is an English former cricketer who played as a top-order batsman and part-time bowler for Northamptonshire.
He was born in Truro,Cornwall,and played for the Yorkshire academy and the Worcestershire 2nd XI before joining Northamptonshire. After five first-class matches and four List A matches in three seasons with Northants,Paynter returned to the Worcs 2nd XI,but stopped playing in 2004.
David Paynter is the great-grandson of the England and Lancashire batting legend,Eddie Paynter,famous for performances for the national Test side in the 1930s,including the 1932–1933 Bodyline series in Australia,where he scored a match-winning 83 in one match of the series after being called from the sickbed while he had a fever by his captain,Douglas Jardine. [1]
