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| Full name | Francis Edward Collyer | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 4 February 1947 Brentford, Middlesex, England | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Batting | Right-handed | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Role | Wicket-keeper | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Years | Team | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1976–1978 | Minor Counties West | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1973–1984 | Minor Counties | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1972–1979 | Minor Counties South | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1967–1969 | Cambridge University | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1967–1987 | Hertfordshire | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Source:Cricinfo,1 October 2011 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Francis Edward Collyer (born 4 February 1947) is a former English cricketer. Collyer was a right-handed batsman who fielded as a wicket-keeper. He was born at Brentford,Middlesex.
Collyer made his first-class debut for Cambridge University in May 1967 against Middlesex. He made a further first-class appearance for the university in 1969,against Worcestershire. [1] His debut for Hertfordshire came also in 1967,against Bedfordshire in the Minor Counties Championship. He played Minor counties cricket for Hertfordshire from 1967 to 1987,making 176 Minor Counties Championship [2] and eleven MCCA Knockout Trophy appearances. [3] His List A debut came when Hertfordshire played Devon in the 1969 Gillette Cup. He made twelve further List A appearances for the county,the last of which came against Hampshire in the 1986 NatWest Trophy. [4] In his thirteen List A appearances for Hertfordshire,he scored 187 runs at an average of 17.00,with a high score of 58 not out. Behind the stumps he took 18 catches. [5] He also played for a variety of combined Minor Counties teams. He appeared for Minor Counties South in a List A match in the 1972 Benson &Hedges Cup against Hampshire. He made seventeen further appearances for the team,the last of which came against Glamorgan in the 1979 Benson &Hedges Cup. [4] In his eighteen appearances for the team,he scored 180 runs at an average of 12.85. Behind the stumps he took 14 catches and made a single stumping. [5] His first appearance for Minor Counties West came in the 1976 Benson &Hedges Cup against Gloucestershire,with Collyer playing eleven further matches for the team to 1978, [4] scoring 170 runs at an average of 17.00 and a high score of 35 not out,while taking 7 catches. [5]
Further appearances came for the Minor Counties cricket team,with Collyer making his debut for the team in a first-class match against the touring West Indians in 1973. Two further first-class matches for the Minor Counties followed,in 1974 against the touring Pakistanis and in 1979 against the touring Indians. [1] He scored 95 runs in these three matches,at an average of 23.75,with a high score of 46. Behind the stumps he took 9 catches. [6] In the 1980 Benson &Hedges Cup against Essex,Collyer played his first List A match for the team. He made fourteen further appearances in that format for the Minor Counties,the last of which came against Nottinghamshire in the 1984 Benson &Hedges Cup. [4] In his fifteen List A appearances for the Minor Counties,he scored 238 runs at an average of 18.30,with a high score of 49,while behind the stumps he took 9 catches. [5]
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