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Full name | Duncan John Spencer | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born | Nelson, Lancashire, England | 5 April 1972|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Height | 172 cm (5 ft 8 in) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Batting | Right-handed | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bowling | Right-arm fast | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Role | All rounder | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Years | Team | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
1993–1994 | Kent | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
1994/95–2000/01 | Western Australia | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
2006 | Sussex | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
2006 | Buckinghamshire | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Source:CricInfo,24 June 2022 |
Duncan Spencer (born 5 April 1972) is a former English cricketer. Born in Nelson,Lancashire,the family moved to Perth in Western Australia when he was five years old and Spencer played Western Australian grade cricket. [1] He played as a right-handed batsman and a right-arm fast bowler. After playing aged group cricket for Western Australia in 1989,Spencer's first high-profile cricket appearances came in two one-day matches for Western Australia against a touring England A side in March 1994. [2]
Spencer's List A and first-class cricket debuts came for Kent County Cricket Club in 1993. He made five List A and two first-class matches for the side during the season before signing for Western Australia in time for the 1994–95 Sheffield Shield. After playing in the majority of the side's matches during the Shield season,in 1994 he returned to Kent,playing a further four County Championship matches and in the county's List A side. [2] Spencer dropped out of the county game with back trouble,but not before Sir Vivian Richards rated Spencer as the fastest bowler he had ever faced. [3]
After six years out of the Western Australian side,he returned to play six one-day matches for WA in the 2000/01 season and after the last of these matches,he returned a positive drug test for the anabolic steroid performance-enhancing drug nandrolone. He was found guilty and suspended from all competitive cricket for 18 months. Spencer claimed that it was taken to relieve the pain caused by chronic back injuries. [4]
Spencer returned to sign for Sussex at the age of 34,signing for the start of the 2006 County Championship season. He played just one Championship match following his return,moving to Minor Counties side Buckinghamshire during the second half of the season. He was on the losing side of the 2006 Minor Counties Championship final. [2]
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