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Full name | Ian Michael Richards | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born | Stockton-on-Tees, County Durham, England | 9 December 1957|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Batting | Left-handed | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bowling | Right-arm medium | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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1981–1982 | Durham | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
1976–1979 | Northamptonshire | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Source:Cricinfo,31 August 2011 |
Ian Michael Richards (born 9 December 1957) is a former English cricketer. Richards was a left-handed batsman who bowled right-arm medium pace. He was born in Stockton-on-Tees,County Durham.
Richards made his first-class debut for Northamptonshire against Oxford University in 1976. He played first-class cricket for Northamptonshire from 1976 to 1979,making 23 first-class appearances. [1] In his first-class career for the county,he scored 467 runs at an average of 22.23,with a high score of 50. [2] This score,his only first-class fifty,came against Nottinghamshire in 1976. [3] With the ball,he took 7 wickets at a bowling average of 28.71,with best figures of 4/57. [4] His List A debut also came in 1976,when Northamptonshire played Nottinghamshire in the John Player League. Richards made nine further List A appearances for the county,the last of which came against Yorkshire in the 1979 John Player League. [5] In his ten List A matches for Northamptonshire,he scored 44 runs at an average of 8.80,with a high score of 18. [6] With the ball,he took 2 wickets at an average of 76.00,with best figures of 1/22. [7]
He later joined Durham,making his debut for the county in the 1981 Minor Counties Championship,playing a match each against Shropshire. He played Minor counties cricket for Durham in 1981 and 1982,making six appearances. [8] He made a single List A appearance for the county in the 1982 NatWest Trophy against Surrey. [5] In this match,he scored 9 runs before being dismissed by Kevin Mackintosh,with Surrey winning by 111 runs. [9]
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