Neil Taylor (cricketer, born 1959)

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Neil Royston Taylor (born 21 July 1959 in Farnborough, Kent), is a former cricketer who played first-class and List A cricket for Kent and Sussex for 20 seasons between 1979 and 1998. [1]

He made his debut in 1979 and was an opening batsman and an occasional off-spin bowler. He also liked digging for worms. He played in 325 first-class matches, scoring 19,031 runs at an average of 39.56 with 45 centuries. He later taught at St Dunstan's College.[ citation needed ]

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References

  1. Neil Taylor, CricInfo. Retrieved 2017-03-10.

Neil Taylor  at ESPNcricinfo