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Full name | Michael James Cann | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born | Cardiff, Glamorgan, Wales | 4 July 1965|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Batting | Left-handed | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bowling | Right-arm offbreak | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Years | Team | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
1986–1991 | Glamorgan | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
1989/90 | Orange Free State | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
1990–1993 | Griqualand West | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
1993/94 | Boland | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
FC debut | 13 September 1986 Glamorgan v Essex | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Last FC | 21 January 1994 Boland v Eastern Transvaal | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
LA debut | 2 May 1987 Combined Universities v Hampshire | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Last LA | 22 September 1993 Boland v Canterbury | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Source:CricketArchive,21 December 2009 |
Michael James Cann (born 4 July 1965) is a former cricketer from Wales. He played first-class and one-day cricket for Glamorgan,Orange Free State,Griqualand West,Boland and the Impalas between 1986 and 1994. He was a left-handed batsman and right-arm offbreak bowler. [1]
A middle-order and opening batsman,Cann scored four first-class centuries,three of them in South Africa. His highest score was 141 (after scoring 80 in the first innings) when Griqualand West successfully chased 291 to defeat Boland in 1990–91. [2] His one century for Glamorgan was the 109 he scored against Somerset in 1989. [3] His best first-class bowling figures were 5 for 68 (match figures of 41–17–87–8) for Boland B against Western Transvaal in 1993–94,his last first-class season. [4]
Cann studied Biochemistry at Swansea University,and has worked as a biochemist since the end of his cricket career. [5]
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