Personal information | |
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Full name | Simon Francis Forde |
Born | Tuatapere, Southland, New Zealand | 22 January 1972
Batting | Right-handed |
Bowling | Right-arm off-break |
Domestic team information | |
Years | Team |
1998/99–2000/01 | otago |
1999/00 | Dunedin Metro |
Source:CricInfo,9 May 2016 |
Simon Francis Forde (born 22 January 1972) is a New Zealand former cricketer. He played ten first-class and twenty List A matches for Otago between 1998 and 2001. [1] [2]
Forde was born at Tuatapere in Southland in 1972. He worked as a police officer and was awarded a bronze medal for bravery by the Royal Humane Society after attempting to extinguish a fire with two colleagues and searched a burning building for injured survivors. Since retiring from playing cricket he has been a selector for the Otago side. [3]