Mark Harrity

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Mark Harrity
Personal information
Born (1974-03-09) 9 March 1974 (age 46)
Semaphore, South Australia
BattingRight-handed
BowlingLeft-arm fast
RoleBowler
Domestic team information
YearsTeam
1994–2003 South Australia
2003–2004 Worcestershire
First-class debut7 January 1994 South Australia  v  Western Australia
Last First-class 25 May 2004 Worcestershire  v  Warwickshire
List A debut18 July 1995 Young Australia  v  Yorkshire
Last List A 23 May 2004 Worcestershire  v  Yorkshire
Career statistics
Competition First-class List A
Matches8453
Runs scored25430
Batting average 5.086.00
100s/50s0/00/0
Top score1915
Balls bowled15,4182,593
Wickets 21678
Bowling average 39.3125.91
5 wickets in innings 21
10 wickets in match00
Best bowling5/655/42
Catches/stumpings 26/–10/–
Source: Cricinfo, 7 August 2019

Mark Andrew Harrity (born 9 March 1974) is an Australian former cricketer. [1] He was born in Semaphore, a suburb of Adelaide. [2] He was a very fast bowler but saw his career repeatedly interrupted by injury.

Harrity made his first-class debut in the 1993–94 Sheffield Shield season, for South Australia against Western Australia at the Adelaide Oval, but went wicketless. [3] [4] For his first victim he had to wait over two months until selected against Tasmania, when his single scalp was that of Shaun Young. It was the following season that he came good, taking 22 first-class wickets at 34.92, including a haul of 5-92 against Western Australia in February which would remain his best for seven years. He was also selected for the Australian Cricket Academy that season.

In 1995 Harrity toured England with Young Australia, playing five first-class matches as well as his first three List A games. For some seasons thereafter he played only for his state in Australia, always coming up with around 20 first-class wickets a season but never managing a really spectacular return, partly on account of his aforementioned injury problems. In 1997–98 he recorded his best List A bowling figures, 5-42 against Victoria, while 2001–02 saw his career-best first-class figures, 5-62 against Tasmania.

In 2003 Harrity returned to England to play county cricket for Worcestershire, using a British passport. [5] [6] A minor but unwanted feat was to score no runs at all in five Twenty20 games for the county: two ducks, one 0* and two did-not-bats. In List A cricket he took 12 wickets at 23.58, but he did not have a successful first-class season, taking only 11 wickets in more than 166 overs at an average of only barely below 50.

He was retained by Worcestershire for 2004, but reprimanded by the ECB for an incident in a second XI match in June and played his final matches during the season. [7]

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References

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