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Full name | Zachary Clegg Morris | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born | Barnsley, Yorkshire, England | 4 September 1978|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Batting | Right-handed | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bowling | Slow left-arm orthodox Left-arm medium | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Relations | Alex Morris (brother) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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1998–2001 | Hampshire | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Source:Cricinfo,17 June 2022 |
Zachary Clegg Morris (born 4 September 1978) is an English former cricketer who played first-class and List A one-day cricket for Hampshire,in addition to playing for the England under-19 cricket team.
Morris was born in Barnsley in September 1978. He first came to the attention of Yorkshire-based cricket coach Jack Sokell,who bought him to the attention of Yorkshire. [1] He played for the Yorkshire Second XI,and between 1996 and 1998 he played Youth Test and One Day International cricket for the England under-19 cricket team. [2] [3] He joined Hampshire ahead of the 1998 season,alongside his brother,Alex,and Yorkshire seamer Peter Hartley. [4] He made his debut for Hampshire in a first-class match against Gloucestershire at Southampton in the 1998 County Championship,with him making a second first-class appearance in the 1999 County Championship against Northamptonshire. [5]
Having begun his career as a slow left-arm orthodox bowler,he later switched to become a seam bowler. [6] Two years would elapse before he next played for the Hampshire first team,when in 2001 he made his debut in List A one-day cricket against Sussex in the Benson &Hedges Cup. [7] In his next one-day appearance against Worcestershire in the 2001 Norwich Union League,he took three wickets,including that of Graeme Hick,for the cost of 31 runs,in addition to hitting the winning runs. [8] He made two further one-day appearances in 2001 in the Norwich Union League,against Essex and Middlesex. [7] Morris was banned by Hampshire for three matches in July 2001,having pleaded guilty to a charge of being drunk and disorderly at Southampton Magistrates Courts and fined £120,having been arrested after being seen urinating on a roundabout the month before. [9] He did not play for Hampshire again and was released at the end of the season,alongside John Stephenson. [6] In 2016,he was reported to be "living and working in his native Barnsley". [10]
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