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Full name | Nicholas John Lamb | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born | St Albans, Hertfordshire, England | 9 November 1985||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Batting | Right-handed | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bowling | Right-arm medium | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Relations | Tim Lamb (father) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Years | Team | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
2003–2015 | Hertfordshire | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
2005–2007 | Durham UCCE | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Source:Cricinfo,20 August 2011 |
Nicholas John Lamb (born 9 November 1985) is an English former cricketer. Lamb is a right-handed batsman who bowls right-arm medium pace. He was born in St Albans,Hertfordshire.
Lamb made his debut in county cricket for Hertfordshire in the 2003 MCCA Knockout Trophy against Wales Minor Counties. [1] Later,while studying for his degree at Durham University,Lamb made his first-class debut for Durham UCCE against Leicestershire in 2005. He made seven further first-class appearances for the university,the last of which came against Durham in 2007. [2] In his eight first-class matches for the university,he scored 218 runs at an average of 16.76,with a high score of 62. [3] This score,his only first-class fifty,came against Surrey in 2006. [4] With the ball,he took 16 wickets at a bowling average of 41.31,with best figures of 4/92. [5] While at Durham University,he also played a single first-class match for the British Universities against the touring Sri Lankans. [2] With the ball,he took the wicket of Chamara Kapugedera,while with the bat he was dismissed for a duck in the British Universities first-innings by Malinga Bandara,while in their second-innings he was dismissed by Chaminda Vaas for 2 runs. [6]
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