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| Full name | Justin Jonathan Bates | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 9 April 1976 Farnborough, Kent, England | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Batting | Right-handed | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Bowling | Right-arm off break | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Years | Team | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1998 | Sussex Cricket Board | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1996–2000 | Sussex | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Justin Jonathon Bates (born 9 April 1976) is a former English cricketer. Bates was a right-handed batsman who bowled right-arm off break. He was born in Farnborough,Hampshire.
Bates made his debut for Sussex in a List A match in the 1996 AXA Equity and Law League against Essex. [1] The following season,he made his first-class debut for the county against Oxford University. He made twenty further first-class appearances for Sussex,the last of which came against Northamptonshire in the 2000 County Championship. [2] In his twenty first-class matches,he scored 411 runs at an average of 13.70,with a high score of 57. [3] This score,which was his only first-class fifty,came against Hampshire in 1999. [4] With the ball,he took 49 wickets at a bowling average of 31.18,with best figures of 5/67. [5] These figures,one of four five wicket hauls he took,came against Northamptonshire in 1998. [6] Having made his List A debut in 1996,Bates would go on to make just seven further appearances in that format,the last of which came against Sri Lanka A in 1999. [1] In his eight List A matches,he scored 47 runs at an average of 9.40,with a high score of 25 not out. [7] With the ball,he took 3 wickets which came at an expensive average of 77.00,with best figures of 2/42. [8]
With him featuring on an infrequent basis for Sussex,Bates also played for the Sussex Second XI,as well as for the Sussex Cricket Board in the 1998 MCCA Knockout Trophy. [9] He left Sussex at the end of the 2000 season.