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Full name | Richard Raymond Collingwood Wells | ||||||||||||||
Born | Salisbury, Southern Rhodesia | 19 January 1956||||||||||||||
Batting | Right-handed | ||||||||||||||
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1977–1978 | Oxford University | ||||||||||||||
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Source:Cricinfo,7 June 2020 |
Richard Raymond Collingwood Wells (born 19 January 1956) is a Rhodesian-born English former first-class cricketer.
Wells was born in Southern Rhodesia at Salisbury in January 1956. He was educated in England at Cranleigh School,before going up to Christ Church,Oxford. [1] While studying at Oxford,he played first-class cricket for Oxford University in 1977 and 1978,making eleven appearances. [2] He scored 212 runs in his eleven matches,at an average of 13.25 and a high score of 85, [3] which came against Leicestershire in 1977. [4]
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