- Colin Lever
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Personal information Full name Colin Lever Born 4 August 1939
Todmorden, Yorkshire, EnglandBatting style Right-handed Bowling style Right-arm medium Relations Peter Lever (brother) Domestic team information Years Team 1965 Minor Counties 1962–1978 Buckinghamshire Career statistics Competition First-class List A Matches 1 8 Runs scored 20 69 Batting average 10.00 11.50 100s/50s –/– –/– Top score 12 20 Balls bowled 78 468 Wickets 2 7 Bowling average 11.50 43.00 5 wickets in innings – – 10 wickets in match – – Best bowling 1/5 3/19 Catches/stumpings –/– 2/– Source: Cricinfo, 3 May 2011 Colin Lever (born 4 August 1939) is a former English cricketer. Lever was a right-handed batsman who bowled right-arm medium pace. He was born in Todmorden, Yorkshire.
Lever made his debut for Buckinghamshire in the 1962 Minor Counties Championship against Oxfordshire. He played Minor counties cricket for Buckinghamshire from 1962 to 1978, which included 91 Minor Counties Championship matches.[1] In 1965, he made his List A debut against Middlesex in the Gillette Cup. He played seven further List A matches for Buckinghamshire, the last coming against Middlesex in the 1975 Gillette Cup.[2] In these eight matches, he scored 69 runs at a batting average of 11.50, with a high score of 20.[3] With the ball he took 7 wickets at a bowling average of 43.00, with best figures of 3/19.[4]
During his career, Lever made a single first-class appearance for a combined Minor Counties cricket team against the touring South Africans in 1965 at Osborne Avenue, Jesmond.[5] In this match he took 3 wickets in the South Africans first-innings, those of Graeme Pollock, Colin Bland and Norman Crookes. In the Minor Counties first-innings he was dismissed for 12 by Jackie Botten, before taking a further South African wicket in their second-innings. In the Minor Counties second-innings scored 8 runs before being dismissed by off spinner Norman Crookes.[6]
He is the brother of Peter Lever, who played Test and One Day International cricket for England.
References
- ^ "Minor Counties Championship Matches played by Colin Lever". CricketArchive. http://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/30/30977/Minor_Counties_Championship_Matches.html. Retrieved 4 May 2011.
- ^ "List A Matches played by Colin Lever". CricketArchive. http://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/30/30977/List_A_Matches.html. Retrieved 4 May 2011.
- ^ "List A Batting and Fielding For Each Team by Colin Lever". CricketArchive. http://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/30/30977/a_Batting_by_Team.html. Retrieved 4 May 2011.
- ^ "List A Bowling For Each Team by Colin Lever". CricketArchive. http://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/30/30977/a_Bowling_by_Team.html. Retrieved 4 May 2011.
- ^ "First-Class Matches played by Colin Lever". CricketArchive. http://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/30/30977/First-Class_Matches.html. Retrieved 4 May 2011.
- ^ "Minor Counties v South Africans, 1965". CricketArchive. http://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Scorecards/27/27611.html. Retrieved 4 May 2011.
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Categories:- 1939 births
- Living people
- People from Todmorden
- People from Yorkshire
- English cricketers
- Buckinghamshire cricketers
- Minor Counties cricketers
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