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Full name | Rupert Adam Gordon-Walker | ||||||||||||||
Born | Moniaive, Dumfriesshire, Scotland | 10 August 1961||||||||||||||
Batting | Left-handed | ||||||||||||||
Role | Wicket-keeper | ||||||||||||||
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Years | Team | ||||||||||||||
1981 | Oxford University | ||||||||||||||
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Source:Cricinfo,12 May 2020 |
Rupert Adam Gordon-Walker (born 10 August 1961) is a Scottish former first-class cricketer.
Gordon-Walker was born in August 1961 at Moniaive,Dumfriesshire. He later studied in England at Keble College at the University of Oxford. [1] While studying at Oxford,he made three appearances in first-class cricket for Oxford University in 1981,against Yorkshire,Gloucestershire and Leicestershire. [2] Playing as a wicket-keeper,Gordon-Walker scored 19 runs in his three matches,while behind the stumps he took three catches and made two stumpings. [3] After graduating from Oxford,he worked in the City of London. His nephew was the politician Patrick Gordon Walker. [4]
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