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Full name | Samuel David Haslam Parkinson | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born | Adelaide, South Australia, Australia | 8 August 1960|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Batting | Left-handed | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bowling | Left-arm fast-medium | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Relations | Son: Harry Parkinson Daughters: Emily Parkinson, Annabelle Parkinson and Alexandra Parkinson | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Years | Team | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
1981/82–1987/88 | South Australia | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
1981 | Buckinghamshire | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Source:Cricinfo,13 August 2011 |
Samuel David Haslam Parkinson (born 8 August 1960) is a former Australian cricketer. Parkinson was a left-handed batsman who bowled left-arm fast-medium. He was born in Adelaide,South Australia.
Parkinson played for Buckinghamshire 1981,making his debut for the English county in the Minor Counties Championship against Oxfordshire. He made 9 further appearances for Buckinghamshire in that season,the last of which came against Hertfordshire. [1] Returning to Australia,Parkinson made his first-class debut for South Australia against New South Wales in the 1981–82 Sheffield Shield. He went on to make a further 35 first-class appearances for South Australia,the last of which came against Western Australia in the 1987–88 Sheffield Shield. [2] In his 36 first-class appearances for South Australia,he took 102 wickets at an average of 34.04,with best figures of 7/98. [3] These figures,one of four five wicket hauls he took,came against Western Australia in the 1982–83 Sheffield Shield. [4] A lower order batsman,Parkinson scored 376 runs at a batting average of 12.12,with a single fifty score of 62, [5] which came against Tasmania in the 1985–86 Sheffield Shield. [6]
In the same season that he made his first-class debut,he also made his List A debut for South Australia against Victoria in the 1981–82 McDonald's Cup. Seen as a player better suited to the longer format of the game,he made just 9 further List A appearances for South Australia,the last of which came against Central Districts during South Australia's tour of New Zealand in 1986–87. [7] He struggled with the ball in the shorter format of the game,taking just 5 wickets at an expensive average of 56.80,with best figures of 2/43. [8]
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