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Full name | Maurice Anthony Chambers | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born | Port Antonio, Jamaica | 14 September 1987||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Batting | Right-handed | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bowling | Right-arm fast | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Years | Team | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
2005–2013 | Essex | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
2013 | →Warwickshire (on loan) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
2014–2015 | Northamptonshire | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
FC debut | 1 June 2005 Essex v Derbyshire | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
LA debut | 16 July 2008 Essex v Yorkshire | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Source:CricketArchive,16 January 2016 |
Maurice Anthony Chambers (born 14 September 1987) is a cricketer who represented Essex and Northamptonshire between 2005 and 2015. [1] He played as a right-handed batsman and a right-arm fast bowler. Despite being born at Port Antonio in Jamaica,Chambers qualified as a domestic player in county cricket by residence. [2]
Chambers made his debut first-class appearance for Essex in June 2005 and played 44 first-class matches for the county. During this period he was selected to tour the West Indies with England Lions,and played two matches before he returned home injured. [3]
In 2013 he spent a brief spell on loan to Warwickshire, [4] before signing for Northants. [5] He played 14 first-class matches for Northants,but his contract was not renewed at the end of the 2015 season. [6]
During the 2016 season,Chambers played in the Yorkshire South Premier League for Aston Hall. [7]
In 2021,in the wake of revelations made by Azeem Rafiq and others about their treatment in County Cricket,Chambers revealed he had been subject to repeated racist abuse during his time at Essex. [8]